Potentioal PhD supervisors
    of IMPRS Heidelberg


The following table provides the names and weblinks of potential PhD supervisors. This is a list consisting of most of the current staff members of the 6 Heidelberg astronomy institutes offering PhD projects.
Feel free to contact them if you find common interests for a PhD project.




Potential IMPRS supervisors:


Colleagues with *) will depart/retire soon.

Dr. Cristina Afonso (MPIA)
( afonso @ mpia.de )		 Extrasolar planets, star formation
Prof. Felix Aharonian (MPIK)
( Felix.Aharonian @ mpi-hd.mpg.de ) 		High energy astrophysics
Dr. Coryn Bailer-Jones (MPIA)
( calj @ mpia.de ) 		Galactic structure, open clusters, brown dwarfs, Gaia satellite, machine learning, Bayesian inference, mass extinctions
Prof. Matthias Bartelmann (ITA)
( bartelmann @ uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Lensing, galaxy clusters, cosmology
PD Henrik Beuther (MPIA)
( beuther @ mpia-hd.mpg.de ) 		Massive star formation, IMF, astrochemistry, (sub) mm interferometry
Dr. Arjan Bik (MPIA)
( abik @ mpia.de ) 		High-mass star formation, young stellar clusters, NIR spectroscopy, massive YSO
Dr. Wolfgang Brandner (MPIA)
( brandner @ mpia.de ) 		Circumstellar disks, brown dwarfs & exoplanets, starburst clusters, adaptive optics
Prof. Norbert Christlieb (LSW)
( n.christlieb @ lsw.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Galactic Archaeology
Dr. David Martinez-Delgado (MPIA)
( delgado @ mpia.de ) 		Stellar tidal streams
Prof. Cornelis Dullemond (ITA)
( dullemond @ uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Modeling of protoplanetary disks, dust grains, formation of planetesimals and planets
Dr. Markus Feldt (MPIA)
( feldt @ mpia.de ) 		Adaptive optics, star formation
PD Christian Fendt (MPIA)
( fendt @ mpia.de ) 		Jets, AGN, star formation, MHD, computational astrophysics
Prof. Josef Fried (MPIA)
( fried @ mpia.de ) 		Cosmology, galactic kinematics, instrumentation
Dr. Bertrand Goldman (MPIA)
( goldman @ mpia.de ) 		Atmospheres, mass function, binarity of Brown Dwarfs and ultracool dwarfs; Pan-STARRS1.
Dr. Dimitrios Gouliermis (MPIA)
( dgoulier @ mpia.de ) 		Extragalactic star formation, Magellanic Clouds, initial mass function
Prof. Eva Grebel (ARI)
( grebel @ ari.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Galaxy evolution, near-field cosmology, dwarf galaxies, stellar populations
Dr. Brent Groves (MPIA)
( brent@mpia.de ) 		Interstellar medium & dust physics, radiative transfer, galaxy spectral energy distributions
Prof. Jochen Heidt (LSW)
( jheidt @ lsw.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Host galaxies, cluster environment, variability of BL Lac objects & QSOs
Dr. Joseph Hennawi (MPIA)
( joe @ mpia.de ) 		Galaxy formation, lensing, quasars
Prof. Thomas Henning (MPIA)
( henning @ mpia.de ) 		Star formation, exoplanets, interstellar medium, laboratory astrophysics
Dr. Tom Herbst (MPIA)
( herbst @ mpia.de ) 		Star formation, dark matter, brown dwarfs, galaxy halos, instrumentation
Dr. Stefan Hippler (MPIA)
( hippler @ mpia.de )		 Instrumentation, adaptive optics, exoplanets
Prof. Werner Hofmann (MPIK)
( werner.hofmann @ mpi-hd.mpg.de ) 		Particle physics, gamma-ray astrophysics
Dr. Knud Jahnke (MPIA)
( jahnke @ mpia.de ) 		Evolution of galaxies and AGN
Dr. Viki Joergens (ITA/MPIA)
( viki @ mpia.de ) 		Brown dwarfs, planets, radial velocity survey, astrometry, brown dwarf formation
PD Stefan Jordan (ARI)
( jordan @ ari.uni-heidelberg.de )		 Astrometry, GAIA, white dwarfs
PD Andreas Just (ARI)
( just @ ari.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Milky Way, galaxy evolution, stellar dynamics
Dr. Jouni Kainulainen (MPIA)
( jtkainul@mpia.de ) 		Molecular cloud structure, evolution of molecular clouds, star formation
Dr. Lisa Kaltenegger (MPIA)
( kaltenegger@mpia.de ) 		Extrasolar planet characterisation, exoplanet spectra, search for biomarkers
Prof. John Kirk (MPIK)
( john.kirk @ mpi-hd.mpg.de ) 		Pulsars, blazars, particle acceleration, cosmic rays
PD Hubert Klahr (MPIA)
( klahr @ mpia.de ) 		Star & planet formation, computational fluid dynamics, accretion disks, supercomputing
Prof. Ralf Klessen (ITA)
( klessen @ uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Star formation theory, interstellar turbulence, galactic structure, computational astrophysics
Dr. Andreas Koch (LSW)
( akoch @ lsw.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Galaxy formation, stellar populations, chemical evolution
Dr. Oliver Krause (MPIA)
( krause @ mpia.de ) 		IR instrumentation, space missions, star formation
Dr. Martin Kürster (MPIA)
( kuerster @ mpia.de ) 		Extrasolar planets, instrumentation
Dr. Ralf Launhardt (MPIA)
( rl @ mpia.de ) 		Low-mass star formation (observations), binary protostars, exoplanet searches, interferometry
Dr. Thorsten Lisker (ARI)
( tl <at> tlisker.net )		 Dwarf galaxies as probes of galaxy clusters, evolution of galaxy structure
Dr. Andrea Maccio (MPIA)
( maccio @ mpia.de )		 Theory of galaxy formation, cosmology, computer simulations galaxy evolution
Dr. David Martinez-Delgado (MPIA)
( delgado @ mpia.de )		 Stellar Tidal Streams
Prof. Klaus Meisenheimer (MPIA)
( meisenheimer @ mpia.de )		 AGN high-resolution studies, deep extragalactic surveys, galaxy evolution
Prof. Reinhard Mundt (MPIA)
( mundt @ mpia.de ) 		Star formation, young stellar objects, Brown Dwarfs
Dr. Jörg-Uwe Pott (MPIA)
( jpott @ mpia.de ) 		Instrumentation, Active Galactic Nuclei
Prof. Andreas Quirrenbach (LSW)
( A.Quirrenbach @ lsw.uni-heidelberg.de )		 Adaptive optics, interferometry, astrometry, extrasolar planets
Dr. Sabine Reffert (LSW)
( S.Reffert@lsw.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Extrasolar planets, astrometry, radial velocities
Dr. Frank Rieger (MPIK)
( frank.rieger @ mpi-hd.mpg.de ) 		AGNs, blazars, jets, particle acceleration
Prof. Hans-Walter Rix (MPIA)
( rix @ mpia.de ) 		Dynamics & evolution of galaxies, gravitational lensing, data modeling
Dr. Thomas Robitaille (MPIA)
( robitaille @ mpia.de ) 		Cluster & Star Formation, Radiative Transfer, Galactic Structure
Dr. Björn Schäfer (ARI)
( bjoern.malte.schaefer @ googlemail.com )		 Structure formation, dark energy, Sachs-Wolfe effect, weak lensing
Dr. Eva Schinnerer (MPIA)
( schinner @ mpia.de ) 		Galaxy formation, fueling of galactic centers, COSMOS survey
Prof. Volker Springel (HITS)
( volker.springel @ h-its.org ) 		Computational astrophysics, galaxy formation, cosmology
Prof. Rainer Spurzem (ARI)
( spurzem @ ari.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Stellar and galactic dynamics, special purpose computing
Dr. Richard Tuffs (MPIK)
( Richard.Tuffs @ mpi-hd.mpg.de ) 		Infrared Astrophysics, interstellar & intracluster dust, galaxy evolution
Dr. Roy van Boekel (MPIA)
( boekel @ mpia.de ) 		Star formation, disk observations & modeling, IR, dust
Dr. Glenn van de Ven (MPIA)
( glenn @ mpia.de ) 		Galaxy dynamics, integral-field spectroscopy, gravitational lensing, globular clusters
Prof. Heinrich Völk (MPIK) *)
( heinrich.voelk @ mpi-hd.mpg.de ) 		Non-thermal processes, gamma rays, cosmic rays
Prof. Stefan Wagner (LSW)
( s.wagner @ lsw.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Extragalactic astrophysics, high energy astrophysics
Dr. Fabian Walter (MPIA)
( walter @ mpia.de ) 		Highest redshift galaxies, star formation in nearby galaxies
Prof. Joachim Wambsganss (ARI)
( jkw @ ari.uni-heidelberg.de ) 		Gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters, cosmology