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
- Taban, Gökce PLATO project assistant
Lead Scientists:
- Dr. Aaron Birch PLATO Data Center
- Dr. Robert Cameron Solar & Stellar Cycles
- Dr. Jesper Schou Asteroseismology
- Dr. Cilia Damiani PLATO Calibration
- Dr. Zhi-Chao Liang Helioseismology Pipelines
- Prof. Thorsten Hohage Max Planck Fellow (Inverse Problems)
Scientists and Postdocs:
- 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. Kashyap, Samarth Ganesh
- Dr. Lekshmi Biji Solar cycle variations of Rossby modes
- 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
- 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, Max Planck Partner Group leader, permanent researcher, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris
Shravan Hanasoge, Max Planck Partner Group leader, Associate Professor, TIFR, Mumbai, India
Saskia Hekker, professor, University of Heidelberg
Markus Roth, director and professor, Tautenburg Observatory and University of Jena, 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, research fellow, University of Birmingham, England
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. research scientist, Stanford University, USA
Patrick Gaulme, tenure-track researcher at Thüringer Landessternwarte - Karl Schwarzschild Observatory, Germany