
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
- Dr. Sonja Schuh IMPRS Coordinator
- 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. Nadiia Kostogryz Solar and Stellar Spectra & PLATO
- 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. Damien Fournier Applied Mathematics CRC 1456, WHOLESUN
- PD Dr. René Heller Exoplanet Science, PLATO
- Dr. Chen Jiang PLATO
- Dr. Samarth Ganesh Kashyap Asteroseismology
- Dr. Björn Müller Solar and Stellar Interiors
- Dr. Tram Nguyen Inverse Problems
- Dr. Valeriy Vasilyev Stellar Atmospheres, PLATO
- Dr. Dan Yang Helioseismology
Engineers:
- Giovannai Ieranó PLATO
- Dr. David Keiderling PLATO
- Dr. Ilyas Kuhlemann PLATO
- Alwin Maier PLATO
- Christoph Rauterberg PLATO
- Martin Schäfer PLATO
- Dr. Weiss, Annita Ngatchou PLATO, Helioseismology Pipelines
Students:
- Lisa Marie Beckmann PhD Student
- Prithwitosh Dey PhD Student, Solar and Stellar Cycles
- Neelanchal Joshi PhD Student, Helioseismology
- Yash Mandowara PhD Student, Solar Physics
- 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. Kuntal Patel Postdoc
- Dr. Weiyu Shen Postdoc
- Dr. Chengyao Zhang, Postdoc
- Dr. Zisong Zhou Postdoc
Graduates:
See the completed PhD thesis topics website
Some past members:
Shujaut H. Bader, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Warrick Ball, University of Birmingham, England
Thomas Duvall, sr. research scientist, Stanford University, USA
Patrick Gaulme, tenure-track researcher at Thüringer Landessternwarte - Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Germany
Charlotte Gehan, IRAP, France
Stephan Heinemann, University of Helsinki
Shravan Hanasoge, Max Planck Partner Group leader, Associate Professor, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Christopher Hanson, NYU, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Saskia Hekker, professor, University of Heidelberg
Jordan Philidet, Max Planck Partner Group leader, permanent researcher, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris
Jason Jackiewicz, associate professor, New Mexico State University, USA
Friedrich Kupka, professor, FH Technikum Wien, Austria
Jörg Knoche, IT Staff, Hamburg Observatory
Michaël Leguèbe, permanent scientist, INRIA Bordeaux, France
Martin Bo Nielsen, research fellow, University of Birmingham, England
Emanuele Papini, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy
João Marques, assistant professor, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France
Markus Roth, director and professor, Tautenburg Observatory and University of Jena, Germany
Hannah Schunker, lecturer, University of Newcastle, Australia
Michal Švanda, scientist, Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic
Tim White, University of Sydney, Australia