Section Members

Team photo

Milky Way and the Local Volume - Team 2022

Credit: AIP, Thomas Spikermann
Section Head
Office: SH/206
Phone: +49 331 7499 648

Structure and content of nearby galaxies including the Milky Way, PI 4MOST high multiplex spectrograph

Senior Scientist
Office: LH/1-18
Phone: +49 331 7499 454

Extreme Metal-Poor stars, chemo-dynamical evolution of the Milky Way

Senior Scientist
Office: LH/1-02
Phone: +49 331 7499 259

Milky Way and galaxy kinematics, chrono-chemo-dynamic simulations and analysis of the Milky Way

Senior Scientist
Office: LH/1-19
Phone: +49 331 7499 336

Proper motion studies, Solar neighbourhood objects, open clusters

Scientific Staff

Scientific Staff
Office: LH/1-17
Phone: +49 331 7499 671

Gaia spectroscopic pipeline development, solar physics

Postdoctoral Researchers

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-20
Phone: +49 331 7499 213

Dynamics, structure and chemical evolution of Milky Way, N-body/hydrodynamics, MHD

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: SH/226
Phone: +49 331 7499 657

Starbursting and starforming galaxies, HII regions, deep surface photometry, Lyman Continuum escape from galaxies at low and high redshifts

Postdoctoral Researcher

Dynamics and radial migration of stellar populations in the Milky Way

Postdoctoral Researcher
Office: LH/1-02

Stellar rotation in star clusters, spectral analysis pipelines, instrumentation software

Doctoral Candidates

Doctoral Candidate

Milky Way disk dynamics and stellar radial migration

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-10
Phone: +49 331 7499 277

Spectral analysis through machine learning, convolutional neural networks

Doctoral Candidate
Office: LH/1-01
Phone: +49 331 7499 663

Bayesian analyses to determine astrophysical parameters of stars

Students and Assistants

Student/Assistant
Office: LH/1-10
Master Student
Office: LH/1-20
Master Student
Office: Bib
Student Assistant

Administration

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