Department members
Meet our department current and previous members. Link to completed PhD projects can also be found here.
Director:
Administration:
- Regina Rieck Assistant to the Director
- Sarah-Maria Gabler PLATO project assistant
Lead Scientists:
- Dr. Aaron Birch Helioseismology, PLATO ( PLATO Data Center)
- Dr. Robert Cameron Dynamo Theory, Solar & Stellar Cycles
- Dr. Jesper Schou Helio- and Asteroseismology
- Dr. Cilia Damiani Leads Stellar modelling, PLATO Calibration
- Dr. Zhi-Chao Liang Leads Helioseismology Pipelines
- PD Dr. Sandra Jeffers Terrestrial planets
- Prof. Thorsten Hohage Max Planck Fellow (Inverse Problems)
Scientists and Postdocs:
- Dr. Anna Shapiro Earth-Sun connection
- Dr. Anya Samadi Ghadim Pulsating binary stars
- Dr. Charlotte Gehan Asteroseismology
- Dr. Chen Jiang Asteroseismology
- Dr. Dan Yang Helioseismology
- Dr. Damien Fournier Applied mathematics CRC 1456, WHOLESUN
- Dr. Florian Liebing Terrestrial exoplanets
- Dr. Kashyap, Samarth Ganesh
- Dr. Lekshmi Biji Solar cycle variations in convection zone dynamics
- Dr. Liu, Meng Inverse Problems
- Dr. Matthias Ammler-von-Eiff PLATO
- Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz Radiative transfer; helioseismology PLATO
- PD Dr. René Heller Exoplanet science PLATO
- Dr. Sonja Schuh IMPRS Coordinator, Asteroseismology
- Dr.Tram Nguyen Inverse Problems
- Dr. Valeriy Vasilyev Stellar atmospheres, PLATO
- Dr. Yuto Bekki Solar numerical simulations
Engineers:
- David Keiderling PLATO
- Ilyas Kuhlemann, PLATO
- Christoph Rauterberg PLATO
- Martin Schäfer PLATO
- Weiss, Annita Ngatchou PLATO, Helioseismology Pipelines
Students:
- Aarushi Rawat PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Björn Müller PhD Student, Helioseismic holography; inverse problems
- Gutierrez-Canales, Carlos Fernando PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Hooman Lali MSc, Graduate Assistant
- Isabela de Oliveira Martins PhD Student, Response of the Martian atmosphere to solar activity
- Neelanchal Joshi PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Prithwitosh Dey PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Simon Cloutier PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Yash Mandowara PhD Student, Solar Physics
- Suprabha Mukhopadhyay PhD Student, Inverse problems
Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa
- Dr. Xiaojue Zhu Group Leader
- Dr. Zhou, Zisong, Postdoc
- Dr. Jiaxing Song, Postdoc
- Dr. Shujaut Bader, Postdoc
- Dr. Veeraraghavan Kannan, Postdoc
- Kaiyuan Zheng PhD Student
- Yifeng Fu PhD Student
Graduates:
See the completed PhD theses topics website
Some past members:
Stephan Heinemann, University of Helsinki
Jordan Philidet, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris
Shravan Hanasoge, Max Planck Partner Group leader, Associate Professor, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Saskia Hekker, Full professor, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Freiburg, Germany
Markus Roth, Scientist, Research group leader, Leibniz-Institut für Sonnenphysik, Freiburg, 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, New York University Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
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. Res Scientist, Stanford University, USA
Patrick Gaulme Tenure-track researcher at Thüringer Landessternwarte - Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, DE