Department members
Meet our department current and previous members. Link to completed PhD projects can also be found here.
Director:
Administration:
- Alina Arand-Berger Assistant to the Director
- Gökce Taban PLATO Project Assistant
- Johanna Wagner-Farssi IMPRS Team Assistant
Lead Scientists:
- Dr. Aaron Birch PLATO Data Center
- Dr. Robert Cameron Solar & Stellar Cycles
- Dr. Cilia Damiani PLATO Calibration
- Prof. Thorsten Hohage Max Planck Fellow (Inverse Problems)
- Dr. Zhi-Chao Liang Helioseismology Pipelines
- Dr. Jesper Schou Asteroseismology
- Dr. Xiaojue Zhu leader of the Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
Scientists and Postdocs:
- Dr. Matthias Ammler-von-Eiff PLATO
- Dr. Yuto Bekki Solar Numerical Simulations
- Dr. Shujaut Bader Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
- Dr. Damien Fournier Applied Mathematics CRC 1456, WHOLESUN
- Dr. Charlotte Gehan Asteroseismology
- PD Dr. René Heller Exoplanet Science, PLATO
- Dr. Chen Jiang PLATO
- Dr. Veeraraghavan Kannan Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
- Dr. Samarth Ganesh Kashyap Asteroseismology
- Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz Radiative Transfer; Helioseismology, PLATO
- Dr. Meng Lui Inverse Problems
- Dr. Björn Müller Solar and Stellar Interiors
- Dr. Tram Nguyen Inverse Problems
- Dr. Sonja Schuh IMPRS Coordinator
- Dr. Jiaxing Song Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
- Dr. Valeriy Vasilyev Stellar Atmospheres, PLATO
- Dr. Dan Yang Helioseismology
Engineers:
- David Keiderling PLATO
- Ilyas Kuhlemann PLATO
- Alwin Maier PLATO
- Christoph Rauterberg PLATO
- Martin Schäfer PLATO
- Weiss, Annita Ngatchou PLATO, Helioseismology Pipelines
Students:
- Lisa Marie Beckmann PhD Student
- Prithwitosh Dey PhD Student, Solar and Stellar Cycles
- Gutierrez-Canales Carlos Fernando PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Neelanchal Joshi PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Hooman Lali MSc, Graduate Assistant
- Yash Mandowara PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Isabela de Oliveira Martins PhD Student, Response of the Martian atmosphere to solar activity
- Suprabha Mukhopadhyay PhD Student, Inverse Problems
- Muneeb Mushtaq PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Noémi Pádár PhD Student, Solar and Stellar Cycles
- Aarushi Rawat PhD Student, Helioseismology
Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
- Dr. Xiaojue Zhu Group Leader
- Abhiroop Bhadra PhD Student
- Dr. Shujaut Bader Postdoc
- Xiaobo Bi
- Dr. Himanshu Dave Postdoc
- Yifeng Fu PhD Student
- Dr. Veeraraghavan Kannan Postdoc
- Dr. Kuntal Patel Postdoc
- Dr. Weiyu Shen Postdoc
Jordan Philidet, Max Planck Partner Group leader, permanent researcher, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris
Postdoc- Dr. Zisong Zhou Postdoc
Graduates:
See the completed PhD theses topics website
Some past members:
Stephan Heinemann, University of Helsinki
Jordan Philidet, Max Planck Partner Group leader, permanent researcher, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris
Shravan Hanasoge, Max Planck Partner Group leader, Associate Professor, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Saskia Hekker, professor, University of Heidelberg
Markus Roth, director and professor, Tautenburg Observatory and University of Jena, Germany
Jason Jackiewicz, associate professor, New Mexico State University, USA
Friedrich Kupka, professor, FH Technikum Wien, Austria
Michal Švanda, scientist, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
João Marques, assistant professor, University of Paris, Orsay, France
Tim White, University of Sydney, Australia
Warrick Ball, University of Birmingham, England
Martin Bo Nielsen, research fellow, University of Birmingham, England
Emanuele Papini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
Michaël Leguèbe, 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. research scientist, Stanford University, USA
Patrick Gaulme, tenure-track researcher at Thüringer Landessternwarte - Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Germany