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
Section Head
Office: LH/1-11
Phone: +49 331 7499 651

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

Senior Scientist
Office: LH/1-12
Phone: +49 331 7499 394

Cepheid distance scale, project manager instrumentation development

Senior Scientist
Office: LH/1-17
Phone: +49 331 7499 202

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

Postdoctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-01
Phone: +49 331 7499 301

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

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-10
Phone: +49 331 7499 662

Dynamics of galaxies and galaxy clusters

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-01
Phone: +49 331 7499 515

Gaia pipeline SIF images pipeline development, stellar populations

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-03
Phone: +49 331 7499 652

Kinematics of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

Schwarzschild Fellow
Office: LH/1-12
Phone: +49 331 7499 342

Systems of satellite galaxies and near-field cosmology

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-03
Phone: +49 331 7499 405

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

Doctoral Candidates

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-10

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

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-10
Phone: +49 331 7499 631

Young stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-03

Stellar substructures of the Magellanic Clouds

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-03
Phone: +49 331 7499 605

Group infall of dwarf galaxies in the Local Group

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-01

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

Master Student
Office: Bib

The structure of dark matter halos under adiabatic contraction due to baryonic gravity in massive galaxies.

Master Student
Office: Bib

The effect of measurement uncertainties (in proper motions and other quantities) on the inferred stability of satellite galaxy planes.

Master Student
Office: LH/0-13
Phone: +49 331 7499 687

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

Student/Assistant
Office: LH/1-10

Gaia data processing.

Master Student
Office: Bib

Jeans dynamical models of a simulated dwarf galaxy

Master Student
Office: Bib

Proper motion of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds.

Guests

Scientific Staff (Guest)
Guest

Administration

Team Assistant
Office: LH/0-19
Phone: +49 331 7499 266