Group members
Nadine Neumayer
Group LeaderResearch interest: Galaxy dynamics, Build-up of galactic nuclei, Census of black holes in low-mass galaxies, Integral-field-spectroscopy, Adaptive optics observations
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
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
Peter Smith
Research interests: Dynamical modelling of globular clusters, black hole populations in globular clusters, stellar populations.
Callie Clontz
Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Stellar populations
Maximilian Häberle
Research interests: Astrometric observations, Dynamical models of globular clusters, Astronomical instrumentation
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
Ishaan Kothiyal
Research Interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Stellar Populations, IFU spectroscopy, Observational astronomy
Franziska Bruckmann
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Galactic Centre, Stellar populations, Observational astronomy
Maria Selina Nitschai
Research interests: IFU spectroscopy, Gas dynamics, Galactic centre, Dynamical modelling of the Milky Way
Simran Joharle
Research interests: Galactic Center, Stellar Populations, Observational Astronomy, NIR Photometry and IFU Spectroscopy, Galaxy Evolution
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
Research interests: K-band spectroscopy, IFU and longslit spectroscopy, Longslit drift scan observations, Stellar kinematics, Dynamical modelling, Stellar populations
Marcelina Kinyumu
Research interests: Extragalactic, Formation and evolution of galaxies, Statistical data analysis
Yiming Xu
Research interests: Planetary disks and exoplanets, galactic nuclei, cosmology, observational astronomy
Simona Di Stefano
Research interests: Stellar populations, Globular clusters, Spectroscopic analysis
Natascha Sattler
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Integral field spectroscopy, Stellar kinematics and stellar populations, Thick and thin disks
Samantha Adams
Research interests: Active galactic nuclei, Galaxy structure, formation and evolution
Francesca Pinna
Research interests: Integral field spectroscopy, Stellar populations, Nuclear star clusters, Thick disks, Built up of galactic structures and their evolution
Manuel Bayer
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Globular cluster systems, Globular clusters
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
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, Globular clusters, IFU spectroscopy
Iskren Georgiev
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Globular clusters, Ultra compact dwarf galaxies, Imaging and spectroscopic stellar population analysis
Celine Greis
Research interests: Galaxy evolution, Stellar kinematics and stellar populations, Thick discs, Integral field spectroscopy
Robin Herlan
Research interests: Nuclear Star Cluster as probes of Dark Matter halos, Globular Cluster Dynamics
Nikolay Kacharov
Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Dwarf galaxies chemical evolution, Stellar kinematics, Stellar chemical abundances, Spectroscopic observations
Katrin Lehle
Research interests: Dynamical modelling and stellar kinematics in galactic nuclei, Active galactic nuclei, Integral-field spectroscopy
Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti
Now a postdoctoral fellow at Lund UniversityResearch interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Formation and evolution of dense stellar systems, N-body simulations, Stellar dynamics
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
Now at the University of MilanResearch interests: Nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, Dynamical modelling of galactic nuclei, K-band spectroscopy, IFU and longslit spectroscopy
Sofía Rojas
Research interests: Galaxy formation from epoch of reionization until today, Active galactic nuclei, Stellar abundances in nuclear star clusters
Rebekka Schupp
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Black holes, Dynamical modelling
Soumya Shreeram
Research interest: Galactic centre, Accretion histories of galaxies, Slitless spectroscopy, Active galactic nuclei, Stellar structure and population near the Galactic centre