Members of the Max-Planck Minerva Group on Transiting Extrasolar Planets |
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Dr. Cristina Afonso - Group Leader Max-Planck Institut fuer Astronomie Koenigstuhl 17 69117 Heidelberg Phone: +49 6221 528 492 Fax:+49 6221 528 246 e-mail : Cristina Afonso Office : 317 Research : Search for extrasolar planets, transiting planets, atmospheric studies of extrasolar planets, microlensing. |
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Maximiliano Moyano D'Angelo - PhD student Tel : +49 (0)6221 528 0 Fax: +49 (0)6221 528 246 e-mail : moyano (at) mpia.de PhD Thesis: Started in September 2007. He is working in the Pan-Planets and Laiwo projects on the detection of transiting extrasolar planets with the 1.8-m Pan-STARRS1 telescope. |
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Nikolov Nikolay - PhD student Tel : +49 (0)6221 528 0
Fax: +49 (0)6221 528 246 e-mail : nikolov (at) mpia.de PhD Thesis: Started in October 2007. He is working in the Pan-Planets and Laiwo projects on the detection of transiting extrasolar planets with the 1.8-m Pan-STARRS1 telescope. |
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Balazs Csak - PhD student Tel : +49 (0)6221 528 0
Fax: +49 (0)6221 528 246 e-mail : csak (at) mpia.de PhD Thesis: His PhD studies on binary stars are done in conjunction with the University of in Hungary. Additionally, Balazs works for the Namibia node of the HAT-South project. |
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Monika Lendl - Master student Tel : +49 (0)6221 528 0
Fax: +49 (0)6221 528 246 e-mail : lendl (at) mpia.de Master Thesis: October 2008 to October 2009 : Transit Timing Studies for the search of additional bodies in transiting extrasolar planets. |
Former Members |
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Claudia Conrad - Master student Tel : +49 (0)6221 528 0
Fax: +49 (0)6221 528 246 e-mail : conrad (at) mpia.de Master Thesis: November 2007 to January 2009 : Selection of transiting extrasolar planets candidates in Stripe 82 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey |