Section Members

Team photo — Kris Youakim, Maria-Rosa Cioni, Else Starkenburg, Anke Arentsen, Dalal El Youssoufi, Alexey Mints, Cameron Bell, Roisin Brogan, Jesper Storm, Florian Niederhofer, Sara Vitali, Thomas Schmidt, Viswajith Vanaraj, Sonja Sautter
Credit: AIP

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: SH/204

Phone: +49 331 7499 394

E-mail: jstorm@aip.de

Cepheid distance scale, project manager instrumentation development

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. 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/1-10

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 213

E-mail: mpawlowski@aip.de

Dr. Salvatore Taibi

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-03

Phone: +49 331 7499 405

E-mail: staibi@aip.de

Doctoral Candidates

Dalal El Youssoufi

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-10

Phone: +49 331 7499 662

E-mail: delyoussoufi@aip.de

Distribution of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

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

Thomas Schmidt

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-03

Phone: +49 331 7499 314

E-mail: tschmidt@aip.de

Kinematics of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

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

Viswajith Vanaraj

Master Student

Office: LH/1-03

E-mail: viswajith@aip.de

Multiple stellar populations in Magellanic Cloud star clusters

Administration

Sonja Sautter

Team Assistant

Office: LH/0-19

Phone: +49 331 7499 266

E-mail: ssautter@aip.de