Department members
Here we introduce our department members and some previous members. Link to the list of completed PhD projects in our department in last years is also found here.
Here we introduce our department members and some previous members.
Director:
Administration:
- Regina Rieck Assistant to the Director
- Sarah-Maria Gabler PLATO assistant
Lead Scientists:
- Dr. Aaron Birch Helioseismology, PLATO
- Dr. Robert Cameron Dynamo Theory
- Prof. Thorsten Hohage Max Planck Fellow (Inverse Problems)
- Dr. Jesper Schou Helio- and Asteroseismology
- Dr. Xiaojue Zhu Leader of Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
Scientists and Postdocs:
- Dr. Matthias Ammler-von-Eiff PLATO
- Dr. Yuto Bekki Solar numerical simulations
- Dr. Lekshmi Biji Solar cycle variations in convection zone dynamics
- Dr. Cilia Damiani Stellar modelling, PLATO
- Dr. Damien Fournier Applied mathematics CRC 1456, WHOLESUN
- Dr. Patrick Gaulme Asteroseismology; exoplanets PLATO
- Dr. Charlotte Gehan Asteroseismology
- Dr. Stephan Heinemann Solar farside imaging and space weather
- PD Dr. René Heller Exoplanet science PLATO
- PD Dr. Sandra Jeffers Terrestrial planets
- Dr. Chen Jiang Asteroseismology
- Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz Radiative transfer; helioseismology PLATO
- Dr. Zhi-Chao Liang Helioseismology
- Florian Liebing Terrestrial exoplanets
- Dr. Louis Manchon Stellar evolution codes
- Dr. Jordan Philidet Asteroseismology
- Dr. Anya Samadi Ghadim Pulsating binary stars
- Dr. Sonja Schuh IMPRS Coordinator, Asteroseismology
- Dr. Anna Shapiro Earth-Sun connection
- Dr. Jiaxing Song Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
- Dr. Federico Spada stellar physics, PLATO
- Dr. Valeriy Vasilyev Stellar atmospheres, PLATO
- Dr. Dan Yang Helioseismology
- Dr. Shujaut Bader, Geophysics & Fluid Dynamics
- Dr. Veeraraghavan Kannan
- Dr.Tram Nguyen, Inverse Problems
Engineers:
- David Keiderling PLATO
- Ilyas Kuhlemann, PLATO
- Christoph Rauterberg PLATO
- Martin Schäfer PLATO
Students:
- Simon Cloutier PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Prithwitosh Dey PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Neelanchal Joshi PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Hooman Lali Graduate Assistant
- Yash Mandowara PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Björn Müller PhD Student, Helioseismic holography; inverse problems
- Isabela de Oliveira Martins PhD Student, Response of the Martian atmosphere to solar activity
- Kaiyuan Zheng PhD Student, Max Planck Research Group ComFyDA
- Yifeng Fu, PhD Student, Geophysics & Fluid Dynamics
Graduates:
See the completed PhD theses topics website
Some past members:
Shravan Hanasoge
Max Planck Partner Group leader
Associate Professor, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Markus Roth
Scientist, Research group leader
Leibniz-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, Germany
Jason Jackiewicz
Associate professor
New Mexico State University, USA
Michal Švanda
Scientist
Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Joao Marques
Assistant professor
University of Paris, Orsay, France
Tim White
University of Sydney, Australia
Warrick Ball
University of Birmingham, England
Martin Bo Nielsen
New York University Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Emanuele Papini
Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy Michael Leguebe
Permanent scientist, INRIA Bordeaux, France
Jörg Knoche
IT Staff, Hamburg Observatory
Christopher Hanson
NYU, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Hannah Schunker
Lecturer, University of Newcastle, Australia
Thomas Duvall
Sr Res Scientist, Stanford University, USA