• Observational cosmology
• Formation and evolution of galaxies and QSOs
• Far infrared and submillimetric extragalactic backgrounds

• Diffuse stellar population in galaxy clusters & intracluster planetary nebulae
• Galaxy and galaxy cluster formation and evolution
• Dynamics of early-type galaxies, mass content of galaxies, polarrings, properties of dark matter haloes

• Pulsations and mass loss of early type stars
• Light atomic elements in the interstellar medium
• Late stages of stellar evolution

• Starburst galaxies
• Gravitational lensing

• Close binaries and Type Ia SN progenitors
• Binary star formation and evolution
• Astro-tomography
• Hydrodynamical simulations

• Extra-solar planet detection and characterisation, principally via the transit and microlensing methods
• Variable stars
• High precision photometric methods, principally difference imaging

• Star formation and young stellar evolution
• Magnetic fields on young stars
• Infrared instrumentation

Fernando Comeron

• Very young stellar objects
• Dynamics of the insterstellar medium
• Galactic structure

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Stellar magnetic fields and activity
• Planets, disks, and star-planet interactions
• Stellar variability
• Binary star evolution
• High-resolution spectroscopy

• High redshift radio galaxies
• Radio and millimetre interferometry
• Radio surveys
• Optical spectropolarimetry

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies, including the Galaxy
• Star clusters and OB associations

• Intergalactic medium at high redshifts
• Primeval galaxies

• Quasar surveys
• X-ray surveys
• Quasar absorption lines
• Computational astronomy

• Galactic dynamics
• Early-type galaxies
• Stellar populations
• 3D spectroscopy
• Numerical simulations
• Data analysis softwares

• AGN
• High z galaxies
• Polarimetry

• Observational cosmology
• High-redshift galaxies and quasars
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs)
• Large Scale Structure and peculiar motion of galaxies

• Novae Supernovae
• UV astronomy
• Future Telescopes

• Stellar dynamics
• Spiral galaxies

• Dwarf galaxies in galaxy clusters
• Extragalactic globular clusters
• Stellar populations
• Element abundances of galactic globular clusters

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Optical and near-IR interferometry
• Double stars and stellar evolution
• Star formation

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Central Parsecs of AGN
• High-Mass Star Formation
• Evolved Star Mass Loss
• Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation / (3) Stellar Populations / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

• Magnetic activity in cool stars and stellar clusters
• Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of stars and circumstellar environments
• T Tauri and pre-main sequence stars
• Stellar surface imaging

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation / (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

• Stellar evolution (post main sequence, RGB, AGB, post-AGB)
• Star formation
• Planetary and cometary atmospheres
• Very high resolution imaging and interferometry

• Planetary nebulae
• Late stages of stellar evolution
• Stellar mass loss and interaction with the interstellar medium

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Extragalactic globular cluster systems
• Stellar populations
• Galaxy dynamics

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Stellar populations of early-type galaxies
• Extragalactic globular clusters
• Integral-field spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• Active galaxies, relativistic jets in extragalactic and galactic sources, synchrotron and inverse Compton emission, polarization and extragalactic magnetic fields, Faraday rotation, radio surveys.
• Optical/IR telescopes; telescope control; aperture synthesis at cm, mm and sub-mm wavelengths.

• Supernovae
• QSO absorbers
• Cosmology

Research Area(s): (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Observational cosmology
• Galaxy evolution
• QSO absorption lines

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Isolated neutron stars
• Planet formation
• Stars in the solar neighborhood
• High resolution spectroscopy, precise radial velocity measurements

• Gravitational lensing
• Cosmology
• Dark molecular clouds

Research Area(s): (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Multiwavelength properties of AGN and their SED (X-ray, optical, near-IR, sub-mm, radio)
• Highly obscured (Compton thick) AGN
• AGN properties as a function of the environment: field, groups, clusters of galaxies
• high-redshift X-ray clusters of galaxies: their metallicities and AGN content

• Extra-solar planets
• Young nearby associations
• Star formation

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Galactic globular clusters
• Horizontal branch stars
• Late stages of stellar evolution

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers at high redshift
• Dust at high redshift
• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Formation of Large Scale Structure
• Redshift Evolution of the Fundamental Plane
• Redshift Evolution of Core Properties of Elliptical Galaxies

• Nuclei of galaxies
• Dynamics of galaxies
• Instrumentation

• AGN and starburst galaxies
• High z galaxies
• IR instrumentation

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• BL Lacertae Objects
• X-ray Spectra of AGN
• Blazar Surveys

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Precision Spectroscopy, direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration
• Light Element Abundances (Li and Be): Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Galactic Enrichment, Stellar Mixing
• Globular Clusters: light elements anti-correlations
• Chemical Abundance of stars in the local group, in clusters and in the field
• Exo-Planets, planets around evolved stars

• Supernovae
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Monte Carlo Simulations

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Star formation
• TTauri stars, Pre-main sequence binaries
• Young stellar clusters

• Galactic chemical evolution
• UV and optical astronomy
• High-resolution spectroscopy

• starf ormation in this and nearby galaxies
• cirumstellar matter (disks, outflows)
• near-infrared spectroscopy (particularly of H2)

• Resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies
• Extragalactic globular clusters
• Variable stars
• Centaurus A = NGC 5128

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations

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• High angular resolution (interferometry, speckle, occultations)
• Late-type giant stars (temperatures, dust shells)
• Young stars (binaries, disks, halos)
• Low-mass MS stars (binaries, temperatures, masses, brown dwarfs

• Stellar populations in nearby Galaxies
• Distance measurements
• Star formation and early stellar evolution

• HII regions
• Star formation
• Nearby galaxies

• Observational cosmology
• Formation and evolution of galaxies and clusters

• Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
• Stellar magnetic fields
• Star formation and stellar evolution

• Physics of interstellar dust
• IR/mm continuum: imaging
• Formation of stars/galaxies

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Supvernovae, their use as distance indicators
• IR spectroscopy
• High resolution spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Starburst Galaxies
• Super Star Clusters
• Adaptive Optics/NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

• High mass star formation
• Young (proto-)stellar clusters
• Young brown dwarfs
• Circumstellar disks and their evolution

• Optical/near-IR interferometry
• Stellar surface imaging
• Microarcsecond astrometry

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks
• Infra red Spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• The formation and evolution of galaxies
• High-redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters
• Cosmological simulations
• Gravitational lensing

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• High redshift galaxies and AGN
• Kinematics of distant galaxies
• Polarimetry

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Planetary nebulae
• HII regions
• Polarimetry

• Optical interferometry
• Stellar surfaces
• AGN

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution

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• Galaxy formation & evolution
• Clusters of galaxies
• Cosmology

Research Area(s): (3) Stellar Populations / (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Cool gas in galaxies
• Relation between QSO absorption lines and galaxies
• HI mass functions, luminosity functions

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Resolved stellar populations
• Mass content and chemical properties of (dwarf) galaxies
• Local Group
• Low resolution spectroscopy

• Supernova spectra (theory and observations)
• Cosmology with supernovae
• Spectral restoration and cross-correlation algorithms

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution / (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• High resolution spectroscopy
• Light elements abundances
• Radial velocity variances in K giants

• Low and high-mass star formation
• Radio-interferometry and VLBI
• Maser physics

• Galactic chemical evolution
• Chemical abundances in globular clusters
• Metal-poor stars
• High-resolution spectroscopy

• High mass star formation
• Molecular gas kinematics
• Outflow and infall from HII regions

• Stellar activity, especially starspots and stellar activity cycles
• Stellar surface imaging
• Dynamo theory, especially comparison of observations to theoretical calculations

• Early-type galaxies
• Galaxy dynamics
• Super-massive black holes
• 3D spectroscopy
• Laser guide star adaptive optics

• Mass-loss from evolved stars
• Dust in the Local Group
• High angular resolution
• Infrared astronomy

• Co-evolution of black holes and galaxies
• Centres of galaxies
• Active galactic nuclei
• Black hole mass modelling

• Low- and intermediate-mass star formation
• Protoplanetary discs
• Prestellar cores
• Sub-millimetre interferometry
• Astrochemistry

• Stellar evolution: evolutionary mixing processes
• Chemical evolution of the light elements (Li and Be)
• Stellar Nucleosynthesis (s-process elements)
• Chemical evolution of the Galaxy
• High resolution spectroscopy

• Fragmentation of filamentary clouds and prestellar cores
• Protostellar binaries
• Protoplanetary disk evolution
• Debris disks
• Brown dwarves

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• Observational cosmology
• Galaxy formation and evolution
• High redshift radio galaxies and quasars
• Emission line galaxies

• Techniques of strong and weak gravitational lensing and their application

• Galaxy Dynamics and Galaxy Mergers
• Early-type Galaxies
• Numerical Simulations

• Lenticular galaxies formation history
• Kinematics of lenticular galaxies
• Decomposition into disk and bulge

• Disk evolution in multiple stellar systems
• Transiting planets
• High resolution imaging and NIR interferometry
• Low mass to very low mass multiple stars

• Adaptive Optics automatic control part, its standard hardware and software platform design

• Ultra-compact dwarf galaxies
• Stellar populations in the Local Group

• Resolved stellar populations
• Stellar abundances
• The Galactic Bulge

• Polarization and extragalactic magnetic fields, Faraday rotation
• Active galactic nuclei, relativistic jets in extragalactic sources, synchrotron and inverse Compton emission
• Groups and clusters of galaxies

• Galactic chemical evolution
• Supernovae
• Nucleosynthetic processes

• Galaxy cluster study
• Modelling radiation transfer
• AGN

• Globular Clusters
• Black Holes

• Variable stars
• Pulsating atmospheres and mass loss of late type stars
• Cataclysmic variable

• Stellar abundances in globular clusters
• Stellar atmospheres and evolution

• High redshift clusters of galaxies
• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Elliptical galaxies

• Observational cosmology
• High z galaxies
• Galaxy and star formation and evolution

• Emission nebulae at high redshift
• Population III stars

• Protoplanetary disks and their evolution
• Star formation
• Young binary stellar systems

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

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• Late stages of stellar evolution
• Mass loss in AGB stars
• Gamma Ray Bursts

• Magnetic Activity in low-mass stars and Brown Dwarfs
• Optical and infrared spectroscopy, polarimetry

• Interaction of galaxies
• Galaxy clusters and galaxy groups

• Chemical evolution of the Large Magellanic Cloud

• Galactic dynamics
• Stellar populations
• Dynamical and population constraints on the mass content of galaxies
• Barred galaxies

• Globular clusters
• Stellar evolution
• Crowded field photometry
• Data reduction techniques

• Direct detection of exoplanets
• Image processing
• Extreme adaptive optics

Research Area(s): (1) Planets and Star Formation

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Sub-mm surveys
• High-redshift galaxies

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• Infrared extragalactic astronomy
• Extragalactic Surveys

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• Integral field spectroscopy
• Starburst galaxies, including (U)LIRGs, BCDs
• Planetary nebulae

• Observational cosmology
• High redshift galaxies
• Lyman-alpha emitters

Research Area(s): (5) Cosmology and the Early Universe

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• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Stellar populations
• Extragalactic globular cluster systems

• Gamma-ray Bursts
• High redshift galaxies
• AGN

Research Area(s): (4) Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

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• The formation of massive stars and stellar clusters

• Earliest phases of star formation (prestellar cores, Class 0 and Class I protostars)
• Interferometric and single-dish mm/submm observations of such objects
• Formation of multiple proto-systems
• Interplay of magnetic fields, turbulence and gravity during the earliest phases of star formation

• ISM of active galaxies
• Dynamics of the central molecular disk in AGNs
• Magnetic fields in the early universe

• Galaxy evolution
• Galaxy clusters
• Radio AGN
• Star formation
• Survey science (SDSS, NVSS, FIRST, IRAS, COSMOS)
• Multi-wavelength follow-up