Section Members

Team photo — Pengfei Li, Stefano Souza, Marica Valentini, Marcel Pawlowski, Salvatore Taibi, Jesper Storm, Nikolay Kacharov, Erasmo Trentin, Kosuke Jamie Kanehisa, Alexey Mints, Abinaya Omkumar, Thomas Schmidt
Credit: AIP, Thomas Spikermann

Prof. Dr. Maria-Rosa Cioni

Section Head

Office: LH/1-11

Phone: +49 331 7499 651

E-mail: mcioni@aip.de

Stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds, PI of VMC and 1001MC Surveys

Dr. Jesper Storm

Senior Scientist

Office: LH/1-12

Phone: +49 331 7499 394

E-mail: jstorm@aip.de

Cepheid distance scale, project manager instrumentation development

Dr. Marica Valentini

Senior Scientist

Office: LH/1-17

Phone: +49 331 7499 202

E-mail: mvalentini@aip.de

Chemical abundance pipeline for medium and high-resolution spectra, astero-seismology

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Nikolay Kacharov

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-01

Phone: +49 331 7499 301

E-mail: kacharov@aip.de

Stellar populations and stellar dynamics in different environments - from dwarf galaxies to globular clusters and galactic nuclei

Dr. Pengfei Li

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-10

Phone: +49 331 7499 662

E-mail: pli@aip.de

Dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters

Dr. Alexey Mints

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-01

Phone: +49 331 7499 515

E-mail: amints@aip.de

Gaia pipeline SIF images pipeline development, stellar populations

Dr. Florian Niederhofer

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-03

Phone: +49 331 7499 652

E-mail: fniederhofer@aip.de

Kinematics of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

Dr. Marcel Pawlowski

Schwarzschild Fellow

Office: LH/1-12

Phone: +49 331 7499 342

E-mail: mpawlowski@aip.de

Systems of satellite galaxies and near-field cosmology

Dr. Salvatore Taibi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-03

Phone: +49 331 7499 405

E-mail: staibi@aip.de

Stellar chemo-kinematics of dwarf galaxies; phase-space distribution of satellite galaxies around Local Volume hosts

Doctoral Candidates

Kosuke Jamie Kanehisa

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-10

E-mail: kkanehisa@aip.de

The phase-space distribution of satellite galaxies in the Local Volume and comparisons with cosmological expectations

Amy Miller

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-10

Phone: +49 331 7499 631

E-mail: amiller@aip.de

Young stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

Abinaya Omkumar

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-03

E-mail: aomkumar@aip.de

The central regions of the Magellanic Clouds and their interaction

Mariana Pouseiro Júlio

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-03

Phone: +49 331 7499 605

E-mail: mpouseirojulio@aip.de

Group infall of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

Erasmo Trentin

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-01

E-mail: etrentin@aip.de, erasmo.trentin@gmail.com

Elemental abundances of Cepheid variables in the Milky Way and in the Magellanic Clouds and the influence on the brightness of these standard candles.

Students and Assistants

Naoise Holmes

Master Student

Office: Bib

E-mail: nholmes@aip.de

Prem Kumar

Master Student

Office: Bib

E-mail: pkumar@aip.de

Shubham Mamgain

Master Student

Office: LH/0-13

Phone: +49 331 7499 687

E-mail: smamgain@aip.de

Reddenings, distances and luminosities of a new sample of galactic Cepheids for probing the Milky Way and calibrating the extra-galactic distance scale

Amrit Sedain

Master Student

Office: Bib

E-mail: asedain@aip.de

Jeans dynamical models of a simulated dwarf galaxy

Guests

Francesca Dresbach

Scientific Staff (Guest)

E-mail: fdresbach@aip.de

Stefano Souza

Guest

E-mail: ssouza@aip.de

Stellar populations in Galactic Globular clusters and Magellanic Clouds' Star Clusters through photometric, dynamical, chemical analysis, and Asteroseismology.

Administration

Sonja Sautter

Team Assistant

Office: LH/0-19

Phone: +49 331 7499 266

E-mail: ssautter@aip.de