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Group members
Group leader
![Annalisa Pillepich](/4497633/original-1674915119.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo0NDk3NjMzfQ%3D%3D--349559ddf4215b448d2e83f7867b8305ec87dbbf)
Annalisa Pillepich
Group LeaderResearch interest: Numerical astrophysics, galaxy formation and cosmology
Postdocs
![Nhut Truong](/5529105/original-1675074959.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo1NTI5MTA1fQ%3D%3D--3bf64f4db4707358887b95c0d3109be1e9d2ecf8)
Nhut Truong
Research interests: Galaxies and clusters formation and evolution, supermassive black holes feedback, cosmological simulations, synthetic X-ray analyses
STRUCTURES Postdocs (with Heidelberg University)
![Joe Lewis](/4497658/original-1672760671.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo0NDk3NjU4fQ%3D%3D--f0843de69763aff4ec60ee7d87b754895077beb3)
Joe Lewis
Research interests: Galaxy formation, reionization, high-redshift galaxies, cosmological simulations, radiative transfer
![Matthew Smith](/4974602/original-1672760671.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo0OTc0NjAyfQ%3D%3D--930b764a3c5215e3844054261f8c5780df10e911)
Matthew Smith
Research interests: Galaxy formation, stellar feedback, numerical astrophysics
PhD Students
![Lukas Eisert](/4975368/original-1608619609.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo0OTc1MzY4fQ%3D%3D--252fe73a91a7f3894f03f3c9a4c596b672117a67)
Lukas Eisert
University of Heidelberg (M.Sc. Physics)
Research interests: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Cosmological Simulations, Data Science/Machine Learning
![Diego Sotillo Ramos](/4972212/original-1674915119.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo0OTcyMjEyfQ%3D%3D--9496154b809887b6a609c4b293b171c529a95298)
Diego Sotillo Ramos
Research interests: galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy clusters, galactic dynamics, cosmological simulations
![Eric Rohr](/5529119/original-1675075483.jpg?t=eyJ3aWR0aCI6MzUwLCJoZWlnaHQiOjQ1MCwiZml0IjoiY3JvcCIsImZpbGVfZXh0ZW5zaW9uIjoianBnIiwib2JqX2lkIjo1NTI5MTE5fQ%3D%3D--439cc983cc8ab073d32f5d5d741c092a47dd22e4)
Eric Rohr
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, cosmological simulations, cosmic baryon cycle, relationship between baryons and dark matter, galaxy mergers
Undergrad Students (Master and Bachelor)
Kaj Kramer: “The alpha abundances of satellite and halo stars in TNG50 MW/M31-like galaxies”
Noa Hoffmann: “Mocking stellar haloes of TNG50 MW/M31-like galaxies”
Former Group Members: Postdocs
Dr. Martina Donnari (2018-2021), now in teaching
Dr. Gandhali Joshi (2017-2021), now postdoc at University College London
Dr. Elaz Zinger (2017-2020), now at Researcher at Hebrew University
Dr. Allison Merritt (2017-2021, MPIA fellow), now in industry
Dr. Maxim Trebitsch (2019-2021, STRUCTURES postdoc), now postdoc at the University of Groningen
Dr. Gergo Popping (2017-2019, MPIA fellow), now staff at ESO -- ADS Papers and webpage
Dr. Mark Lovell (2016-2017), now postdoc at the University of Iceland
Former Group Members: PhD students
Chris Engler (2018-2022), now in industry: “Populations of satellite galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations”
Kiyun Yun (2016-2020): “Galaxy Evolution in Groups and Clusters with computer simulations”
Former Group Members: Master students
2022 Martin Fournier: “Properties of the Magellanic Cloud Analogs in TNG50” (Simulation Videos)
2022 Nikhil Bisht: “Radial Migration of Stars of Milky Way/M31 analogs in the TNG50 Simulation”
2021 Junia Goeller: “The Star Formation Properties of Jellyfish Galaxies in TNG50”
2019 Lukas Eisert: “From the morphologies of stellar haloes to the assembly histories of galaxies" (paper)
2018 Sebastian Schulz :“The IRX - beta dust attenuation relation: Insights from IllustrisTNG” (paper)
2018 Moritz Fischer:“How different are in-situ and ex-situ stellar population properties?” (webpage)
Former Group Members: Bachelor students and interns
2022 Maria Renee Meza (MPIA summer intern): “The star formation histories of Milky Way-like galaxies in the TNG100 simulation: The bar-SMBH connection”
2020 Rahul Ramesh (DAAD intern, now PhD student at ITA): “The stellar mass assembly of galaxies at the centers of groups and clusters” (webpage)
2018 Lisa-Marie Zessner (now PhD student at MPS): “Stellar metallicity Gradients in IllustrisTNG Stellar Halos”
2018 Patrick Ondratschek (now PhD student at MPS): “The stellar density profiles of IllustrisTNG stellar haloes”
2017 Luis Hellmich (summer intern): “Effects of baryons on the subhalo mass function”
2017 Max Sasserath (with Hans-Walter Rix): “Predicted satellite galaxy abundance around the Milky Way in hydrodynamical simulations”