- February 2025 We thank the IReNA consortium for generously supporting the research visit of our PhD student Richard Hoppe to the US. Richard worked with Alexander Ji (University of Chicago) and Rana Ezzeddine (University of Florida) on Eu/Mg abundances in Galactic EMP stars and r-process nucleosynthesis.
- November 2024 Rogelio Albarracin Contreras has joined our group as a PhD student to work on Cepheids in 4MOST and the Hubble tension. Welcome to Rogelio!
- September 2024 IReNA supported workshop Astrophysical Origins of Carbon. We’ve enjoyed the highly succesfull workshop in Tokyo, organized by the National Astronomical Observatories of Japan. Thanks to the co-organizers Wako Aoki and Tim Beers!
https://www.jinaweb.org/events/astrophysical-origins-carbon-tokyo-2024-workshop
The slides are available at this link https://keeper.mpdl.mpg.de/d/1301c2940d3d4305bd7a/ - August 2024 Andrea Perdomo has joined our group as a Postdoc to work on 3D models and star-planet connection in 4MOST. Welcome to Andrea!
- January 2024 Welcome to Jonas Klevas, who has joined the group as a Postdoc to push forward the research on NLTE and 3D radiation-hydrodynamics with Dispatch and Co5BOLD!
- August 2023 Many thanks to the entire MIAPbP team and co-organizers (Saskia Hekker, Amanda Karakas, Dan Huber, Rolf Kudritzki) for running and hosting the month-long MIAPbP workshop on
Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Gaia, Spectroscopic, and Asteroseismic Surveys - May 2023 The IReNA supported workshop Stellar Properties from NLTE Radiative Transfer. A very successful and inspiring scientific event at the University of Chicago. Thanks to Rana Ezzeddine and Alex Ji for organising the event! Slides and notes from the meeting are available at
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xa3-hlkR1YkP6gw5AnnjLoxa7kyvmbQx?usp=share_link - November 2022 Our group obtains competitive research funding for DAAD German-Australian Cooperation
http://www.mpia.de/5928592/daad-bergemann - October 2022 Ekaterina Magg has been awarded the prestigious Patzer prize for her work on the solar chemical composition. Congratulations! We are looking forward to the award ceremony!
http://www.mpia.de/5939189/2022_11_PatzerPreis - September 2022 Postdoc openings in the group, apply at jobregister.aas.org/ad/d2f73a7c
Deadline November 23
- September 2022 Registration open for the 2023 MIAPbP scientific program on Stellar astrophysics
https://www.munich-iapbp.de/2023-registration-stellar-astrophysics
Deadline November 6 - May 2022 Ekaterina Magg’s paper on the Chemical Composition of the Sun has been published and appears as a monthly highlight in Astronomy & Astrophysics. Congratulations, Katerina!
https://www.mpia.de/5857710/news_publication_18652392_transferred - April 2022 The prototype of the MSAP2 module for the PLATO Stellar Analysis System has been delivered. MSAP2 is one of the 5 main modules of the SAS.
- January 2022 Jeffrey Gerber joins Purdue University as a lecturer in physics and astronomy. Congratulations, Jeff!
- December 2022 Matthew Gent has published his first paper on the SAPP code (Stellar Abundances and atmospheric Parameters Pipeline), which will be used in the analysis of the PLATO core sample
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv211106666G/abstract - October 2021 Several PhD and Postdoc openings in the group, apply at https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/c4d07f14
- September 2021 First announcement NBIA workshop on Radiation Transfer in Astrophysics, The Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, June 6-10, 2022
https://indico.nbi.ku.dk/e/nbia-nlte-2022 - August 2021 Congratulations to our group member Richard Hoppe for the very successful MSc thesis defense!
- July 2021 Our paper on the solar abundance of oxygen has been accepted for publication in MNRAS
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.tmp.1964B/abstract - May 2021 Silvia Anastasia Popa has successfully defended her BSc thesis on the Non-LTE analysis of CH molecular bands in the spectra of FGK-stars. Congratulations, Silvia! The work will be presented in a dedicated research paper.
- Mar. 2021 Matthew Gent submitted his first paper on the SAPP code for internal collaboration review in PLATO. Fingers crossed!
- Feb. 2021 Philipp Eitner was awarded the highly competitive IMPRS Fellowship. Congratulations!
- Jan. 2021 Annika Oetjens has successfully completed spectroscopic observations with FEROS on 2.2 m telescope at La Silla Observatory. 134 metal-poor stars with high rotation rates from TESS will shed light on planet engulfment at low metallicity.
- Dec. 2021 4MOST 4MIDABLE-HR proposal submitted to ESO
- Oct. 2020 Annika Oetjens has published her first paper in a peer-review journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics”.
'The influence of planetary engulfment on stellar rotation in metal-poor main-sequence stars’, A&A, 643, A34 - Oct. 2020 Open Postdoc positions
https://jobregister.aas.org/ad/b2dab669 - Oct. 2020 Camilla Hansen published a very exciting (and easy-to-read) review about
Astrophysik with Radioaktivität (Physik Journal, Oktober 2020, 19, auf deutsch)
https://www.pro-physik.de/physik-journal/oktober-2020 - Oct. 2020 Silvia Popa - a new BSc student - has joined our group! She will work on Non-LTE modelling of the CH molecule and Carbon abundances in CEMP stars
- Nina Nordmeier successfully defended her BSc thesis at MPIA/ University of Heidelberg
Jobs
We are always looking for motivated young scientists at all academic levels to join our research group.
Postdoc positions are advertised though the AAS job register.
PhD applications are usually considered through the IMPRS graduate school.
If you are interested in an internship or in a BSc/MSc project in my group, please contact me by email.