Main Focus
- Astronomer and astrophysicist.
- Project Office Deputy, Product Assurance and Risk Manager for the PLATO Data Center.
- Topics of research: instruments/surveys (PLATO, CoRoT, CARMENES); methods (photometry, spectroscopy, imaging, astrometry); stellar chemical abundances; stellar differential rotation; stellar radial velocities; eclipsing binaries
Curriculum Vitae
Education and Employment
2014- Scientist, PLATO Data Center Office Deputy, Product Assurance and Risk Manager in the PLATO project at the Max Planck Institute for
Solar System Research
2011-2014 CoRoT-Postdoc at Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg (Germany)
2009-2011 Postdoc at Göttingen University and the Max Planck Institute
for Solar System Research
2007-2009 Postdoc fellow at Lisbon Observatory and the University of
Porto (Portugal)
2006 Ph.D. at the University of Jena (Germany)
2001 diploma of Physics at the University of Munich
Selected Publications
Pertenais, M., Ammler-von Eiff, M., Burresi, M., et al., PLATO camera ghosts: simulations and measurements on the engineering model (EM), 2022, SPIE Proc., 12180, 121804M
Morales, J.C., Mustill, A.J., Ribas, I., ..., Ammler-von Eiff, M., et al., A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models, 2020, Sci 365, 1441
Ammler-von Eiff, M.,
Guenther, E.W., On the optimum operating conditions of ThNe calibration
lamps for measurements of radial velocity variations, 2017, AN 338, 550
Ammler-von Eiff, M., Bedalov, A., Kranhold, C., et al., 2016,
Coronagraphic search for wide
substellar companions among members of the Ursa Major moving group,
2016, A&A 591, 84
Ammler-von Eiff, M., Sebastian, D.,
Guenther, E.W., et al., The power of low-resolution spectroscopy: On the
spectral classification of planet candidates in the ground-based CoRoT
follow-up
Vaňko, M., Ammler-von Eiff, M., Pribulla, T., et al., The eclipsing
binary TY CrA revisited: what near-IR light curves tell us, 2013, MNRAS
431, 2230
Vaňko, M., Pribulla, T., Ammler-von Eiff, M., et al., The Dwarf
project: Eclipsing binaries - precise clocks to discover exoplanets,
2012, AN 333, 754
Ammler-von Eiff, M., Reiners, A., New measurements of rotation and
differential rotation in A-F stars: are there two populations of
differentially rotating stars?, 2012, A&A 542, 116
Ammler-von Eiff, M., Santos, N.C., Sousa, S.G. et al., A homogeneous
spectroscopic analysis of host stars of transiting planets, 2009, A&A
507, 523
Ammler-von Eiff, M., Guenther, E.W., Spectroscopic properties of cool
Ursa Major group members, 2009, A&A 508, 677
Ammler, M., Joergens, V., Neuhäuser, R., What are the temperatures of T Tauri stars?. Constraints from coeval formation ofyoung eclipsing binaries, 2005, A&A 440, 1127