Group members

Group members

Group leader
Nadine Neumayer

Nadine Neumayer

Group Leader
http://www.mpia.de/homes/neumayer/
Research interest: Galaxy dynamics, Build-up of galactic nuclei, Census of black holes in low-mass galaxies, Integral-field-spectroscopy, Adaptive optics observations

Postdocs
Stefano  O. Souza

Stefano O. Souza

Research interests: Spectroscopic and photometric analysis of Globular Clusters, Multiple stellar populations in star clusters (from old Galactic Globular Clusters to young star clusters in the Magellanic Clouds ), Massive and nuclear star clusters, Galactic Archaeology.
Antoine Dumont

Antoine Dumont

Research interests: Center of nearby galaxies, Dynamics and emissions of central massive black holes and their relation with galactic properties, Stripped galaxy nuclei, Massive globular cluster

PhD students
Peter Smith

Peter Smith

Research interests: Dynamical modelling of globular clusters, black hole populations in globular clusters, stellar populations.
Callie Clontz

Callie Clontz

Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Stellar populations
Maximilian Häberle

Maximilian Häberle

Research interests: Astrometric observations, Dynamical models of globular clusters, Astronomical instrumentation
Nils Hoyer

Nils Hoyer

Research interests: Nuclear star cluster formation, evolution and demographics, Rivalry between nuclear star clusters and supermassive black holes, Semi-analytical galaxy formation models

Undergraduate students
Ishaan Kothiyal

Ishaan Kothiyal

Research Interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Stellar Populations, IFU spectroscopy, Observational astronomy
Franziska Bruckmann

Franziska Bruckmann

Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Galactic Centre, Stellar populations, Observational astronomy

Former group members
Maria Selina Nitschai

Maria Selina Nitschai

Research interests: IFU spectroscopy, Gas dynamics, Galactic centre, Dynamical modelling of the Milky Way
Simran Joharle

Simran Joharle

Research interests: Galactic Center, Stellar Populations, Observational Astronomy, NIR Photometry and IFU Spectroscopy, Galaxy Evolution
Albrecht Kamlah

Albrecht Kamlah

Research interests: Stellar dynamics, Stellar evolution of single and binary stars across the full stellar lifetime, Stellar populations and the first stars in the universe, Direct N-body, Monte-Carlo and stellar population synthesis methods for star cluster simulation, High performance and massively parallel scientific computing
Anja Feldmeier-Krause

Anja Feldmeier-Krause

https://astro.uchicago.edu/people/anja-feldmeier-krause.php
Research interests: K-band spectroscopy, IFU and longslit spectroscopy, Longslit drift scan observations, Stellar kinematics, Dynamical modelling, Stellar populations
Marcelina Kinyumu

Marcelina Kinyumu

Research interests: Extragalactic, Formation and evolution of galaxies, Statistical data analysis
Yiming Xu

Yiming Xu

Research interests: Planetary disks and exoplanets, galactic nuclei, cosmology, observational astronomy
Simona Di Stefano

Simona Di Stefano

Research interests: Stellar populations, Globular clusters, Spectroscopic analysis
Natascha Sattler

Natascha Sattler

Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Integral field spectroscopy, Stellar kinematics and stellar populations, Thick and thin disks
Samantha Adams

Samantha Adams

Research interests: Active galactic nuclei, Galaxy structure, formation and evolution
Francesca Pinna

Francesca Pinna

Research interests: Integral field spectroscopy, Stellar populations, Nuclear star clusters, Thick disks, Built up of galactic structures and their evolution
Manuel Bayer

Manuel Bayer

Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Globular cluster systems, Globular clusters
Alina Böcker

Alina Böcker

Research interests: Build-up of galactic nuclei, Accretion histories of galaxies, Stellar Populations, Chemical evolution, Integral-field-spectroscopy, N-body simulations
Mayte Alfaro Cuello

Mayte Alfaro Cuello

http://www.mpia.de/homes/alfaro/
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, Globular clusters, IFU spectroscopy
Iskren Georgiev

Iskren Georgiev

http://www.mpia.de/homes/georgiev/
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Globular clusters, Ultra compact dwarf galaxies, Imaging and spectroscopic stellar population analysis
Celine Greis

Celine Greis

Research interests: Galaxy evolution, Stellar kinematics and stellar populations, Thick discs, Integral field spectroscopy
Robin Herlan

Robin Herlan

Research interests: Nuclear Star Cluster as probes of Dark Matter halos, Globular Cluster Dynamics
Nikolay Kacharov

Nikolay Kacharov

Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Dwarf galaxies chemical evolution, Stellar kinematics, Stellar chemical abundances, Spectroscopic observations
Katrin  Lehle

Katrin Lehle

Research interests: Dynamical modelling and stellar kinematics in galactic nuclei, Active galactic nuclei, Integral-field spectroscopy
Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti

Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti

Now a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University
Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Formation and evolution of dense stellar systems, N-body simulations, Stellar dynamics
Francisco Nogueras-Lara

Francisco Nogueras-Lara

Research interests: Stellar structure and population of the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way, High angular resolution imaging, Near infrared astronomy, Extinction curve in the infrared, Nuclear stellar discs
Arianna Picotti

Arianna Picotti

Now at the University of Milan
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, Dynamical modelling of galactic nuclei, K-band spectroscopy, IFU and longslit spectroscopy
Sofía  Rojas

Sofía Rojas

Research interests: Galaxy formation from epoch of reionization until today, Active galactic nuclei, Stellar abundances in nuclear star clusters
Rebekka Schupp

Rebekka Schupp

Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Black holes, Dynamical modelling
Soumya Shreeram

Soumya Shreeram

Research interest: Galactic centre, Accretion histories of galaxies, Slitless spectroscopy, Active galactic nuclei, Stellar structure and population near the Galactic centre
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