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Department Members

Prof. Laurent Gizon
Director

Personal website

Regina Rieck
Team assistant

Sirila Merkata-Voigt
Assistant to the Managing Director

Sarah-Maria Gabler
PLATO assistant

Lead Scientists

	Dr. Aaron Birch Helioseismology		Dr. Robert Cameron Dynamo Theory
	Prof. Thorsten Hohage Max Planck Fellow Inverse Problems		Dr. Jesper Schou Helio- and Asteroseismology
	Dr. Xiaojue Zhu Leader Max Planck Research Group ComFyDa

Scientists

	Dr. Matthias Ammler-von-Eiff PLATO		Dr. Nadir Bayramov Applied mathematics
	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. Martin Halla Applied mathematics Max Planck Fellow Group Inverse Problems
	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
	David Keiderling PLATO		Dr. Nadiia Kostogryz Radiative transfer; helioseismology PLATO
	Dr. Zhi-Chao Liang Helioseismology		Dr. Felix Mackebrandt Asteroseismology
	Dr. Louis Manchon Stellar evolution codes		Dr. Krishnendu Mandal Helioseismology WHOLESUN
	Dr. Kaori Nagashima Helioseismology		Jordan Philidet Asteroseismology
	Dr. Bastian Proxauf Helioseismology		Christoph Rauterberg PLATO
	Dr. Anya Samadi Ghadim Pulsating binary stars		Martin Schäfer PLATO
	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. Jie Yu Asteroseismology PLATO

Students

	Christian Baumgartner Emerging active regions		Yuto Bekki Solar numerical simulations
	Simon Cloutier Solar Physics		Kaiyuan Zheng Max Planck Research Group ComFyDA
	Björn Müller Helioseismic holography; inverse problems		Isabela de Oliveira Martins Response of the Martian atmosphere to solar activity

Graduates

Paul-Louis Poulier 2021 Helioseismic diagnostics of solar surface dynamics
Bastian Proxauf 2020 Observations of large-scale solar flows
Felix Mackebrandt 2020 Timing of stellar pulsations to search for sub-stellar companions beyond the main sequence
Majid Pourabdian 2020 Inverse Problems in Local Helioseismology
Kai Oliver Rodenbeck 2019 On the detectionof Exomoons in Photometric Time Series
Dan Yang, PhD, 2018 Modeling experiments in helioseismic holography
Huanchen Hu, MSc, 2018 Coupling of solar p and g modes
Atefeh Barekat, PhD, 2017 Studies of the radial gradient of rotation near the solar surface
Martin Bo Nielsen, PhD, 2016 Differential rotation in Sun-like stars from surface variability and asteroseismology, Dr. Berliner-Dr. Ungewitter foundation prize & Springer Thesis Award
Jan Langfellner, PhD, 2015 Measuring vortical flows in the solar interior, Otto Hahn Medal winner
Björn Löptien, PhD, 2015 Data compression for helioseismology
Emanuele Papini, PhD, 2015 Simulating the signature of starspots in stellar oscillations
Thorsten Stahn, PhD, 2010 Analysis of time series of solar-like oscillations - Applications to the Sun and HD 52265

Computer Support

Dr. Zhi-Chao Liang
Department IT Manager

Michael Bruns
Unix, Sun/Solaris, Linux

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