Section Members

Team photo — Maria-Rosa Cioni, Florian Niederhofer, Abinaya Omkumar, Lara Cullinane, Amy Miller, Nikolay Kacharov, Erasmo Trentin, Jamie Kanehisa, Salvatore Taibi, Marica Valentini, Jesper Storm, Shubham Mamgain
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

Dr. Marcel Pawlowski

Leibniz Junior Research Group Leader

Office: LH/1-12

Phone: +49 331 7499 342

E-mail: mpawlowski@aip.de

Systems of satellite galaxies and near-field cosmology

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Lara Cullinane

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-10

Phone: +49 331 7499 663

E-mail: lcullinane@aip.de

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/1-03

Phone: +49 331 7499 314

E-mail: fniederhofer@aip.de

Kinematics of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds

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/1-20

E-mail: aomkumar@aip.de

Stellar substructures of the Magellanic Clouds

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

Lisa Di Carlo

Master Student

Office: Bib

E-mail: dicarlo@aip.de

Naoise Holmes

Master Student

Office: Bib

E-mail: nholmes@aip.de

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

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

Ranjith Mudimadugula

Student/Assistant

Office: LH/1-10

E-mail: rmudimadugula@aip.de

Gaia data processing.

Emily St. Pier

Master Student

Office: LH/110

Phone: +49 331 7499 662

E-mail: estpier@aip.de

Sreepriya Vijayasree

Master Student

Office: Bib

E-mail: svijayasree@aip.de

Proper motion of stellar populations in the Magellanic Clouds.

Guests

Francesca Dresbach

Scientific Staff (Guest)

E-mail: fdresbach@aip.de

Stefano Souza

Guest

E-mail: ssouza@aip.de

Administration

Sonja Sautter

Team Assistant

Office: LH/0-19

Phone: +49 331 7499 266

E-mail: ssautter@aip.de