ESO - Research Area: EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES AND THE ISM

Research Area: EVOLUTION OF GALAXIES AND THE ISM

Topics covered in this research area

Subject in this research area aim at understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies from low to high redshift, their mass assembly and enrichment histories, as well as the connection to active galactic nuclei.

Evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies
Evolution of galaxy structure and dynamics
High-redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters
Co-evolution of black holes and galaxies

Thesis topics offered on Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

Thesis topic	Thesis supervisor
The interstellar medium (ISM) in high-redshift galaxies	Paola Andreani (ESO), Padelis Papadopoulos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Francesca Pozzi (University of Bologna, Italy), Chentao Yang (ESO Chile), Zhi-Yu Zhang (Najin University, China)
Multi-wavelength studies of a representative AGN sample in the local Universe	Paola Andreani, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (Home page)
The ongoing subcluster mergers in the heart of the Hydra I (Abel 1060) cluster	Magda Arnaboldi (ESO), Michael Hilker (ESO), Enrica Iodice (INAF, OAC)
Disks, stellar halos, and disk-halo interface in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) resolved with planetary nebulae	Magda Arnaboldi
The origin of the blue stellar halos around Massive Group-Dominant Galaxies	Magda Arnaboldi (ESO Garching), Johanna Hartke (ESO Chile)
Understanding the multi-scale coupling in star-forming disks via hydro-dynamical simulations	Eric Emsellem
Modelling of Nuclear Discs in the MUSE TIMER Project	Dimitri Gadotti (ESO), Francesca Fragkoudi (MPI) Mattia Sormani (Univ. Heidelberg)
Extreme star formation in quasar host at the cosmic high noon	Evanthia Hatziminaoglou (Home page)
Ultrared dusty starburst galaxies at the highest redshifts	Rob Ivison (Home page), Michele Cirasuolo, Andy Biggs
Panchromatic modelling of the most intrinsically luminous Herschel-selected galaxy	Rob Ivison (Home page), Michele Cirasuolo
AGN outflows impact on the molecular gas: linking observations with simulations	Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO), Tiago Costa (MPA), Chris Harrison (Newcastle University)
Studies of the Intracluster Medium through the Sunyaev-Zel’dovich (SZ) effect	Tony Mroczkowski (ESO), Paola Andreani (ESO), Eugene Churazov (MPA), Gergö Popping (ESO)
Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies of blazars	Paolo Padovani (Home page)
Probing the metallicity distribution of the Circumgalactic Medium down to unprecedented scales	Celine Peroux (Home page) (ESO), Arrigoni Battaia (MPA)
Probing the Baryon Cycle	Celine Peroux (Home page), Harald Kuntschner
Characterising the Physical Conditions of the Circumgalactic Medium	Celine Peroux (Home page), Martin Zwaan
Resolving the gas and dust in high-redshift galaxies	Gergö Popping (ESO), Michele Ginolfi (UNIGE)
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA	Eelco van Kampen (Home page)
A multi-phase study of the Circum Galactic Medium in High-z radio galaxies with ALMA and MUSE	Joël Daniel Roger Vernet, Carlos De Breuck

Scientific Staff in Garching working on Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

Arnaboldi, Magda

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Planetary nebulae populations: their luminosity functions, specific frequencies and stellar progenitors
Diffuse stellar population in galaxy clusters & intracluster Planetary Nebulae
Dynamics of late and early-type galaxies, mass content of galaxies, polar-rings, properties of dark matter haloes
Galaxy and galaxy cluster formation and evolution
Near field cosmology and hierarchical mass assembly of galaxy halos

Biggs, Andy

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Starburst galaxies
Gravitational lensing

Coccato, Lodovico

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Stellar Populations · Faculty

Galactic kinematics and dynamics
Stellar galaxy halos
Intracluster light
Stellar populations
Kinematic decoupling in galaxies
Extragalactic Planetary Nebulae
3D spectroscopy
Supermassive black holes

Personal Homepage

De Breuck, Carlos

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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

Personal Homepage

Emsellem, Eric

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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

Hilker, Michael

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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

Personal Homepage

Ivison, Rob

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galaxy formation and evolution
Infrared-luminous galaxies and AGN
Gas and dust in galaxies
Radio galaxies at high redshift
Symbiotic stars and novae

Personal Homepage

Mainieri, Vincenzo

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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
AGN feedback
3D spectroscopy (SINFONI)

Personal Homepage

Padovani, Paolo

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), X-ray, gamma-ray emission
BL Lacertae Objects
Blazar Surveys
Deep radio surveys
AGN - starburst connection
Neutrino and cosmic-ray astronomy

Personal Homepage

Rejkuba, Marina

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies
Globular clusters in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies
Variable stars
Distance indicators
Optical and near-IR imaging and spectroscopy

Personal Homepage

Tacconi-Garman, Lowell

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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

van Kampen, Eelco

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Cosmology and the Early Universe · Faculty

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

Personal Homepage

Vernet, Joël

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

High redshift galaxies and AGN
Kinematics of distant galaxies
Polarimetry

Personal Homepage

Zwaan, Martin

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Evolution of gas in galaxies
Radio and millimetre surveys
QSO absorption lines
ALMA

Personal Homepage

Neeser, Mark

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Cosmology and the Early Universe · Scientists

High-redshift radio galaxies (optical/IR line-emission), AGN's
Galaxy structure: edge-on galaxies, thin and thick disks
Optical and infrared instrumentation

Hatziminaoglou, Evanthia

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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

Personal Homepage

Mroczkowski, Tony

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Millimeter/ Submillimeter Instrumentation
Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Clusters
Sunyaev-Zel´dovich (SZ) Effect and X-ray Observations of Galaxy Clusters
Cosmic Microwave Background

Private Homepage

Cirasuolo, Michele

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galaxy formation and evolution
High-redshift galaxies
Multi-wavelength properties of distant galaxies
3D spectroscopy

Lyubenova, Mariya

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galaxy formation and evolution
Nuclear star clusters formation and evolution
The interplay between baryons and dark matter in galaxies
Near-IR properties of stellar populations
Stellar spectral libraries

Jarvis, Miranda

Stellar Populations · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Students

Galaxy formation and evolution
AGN feedback
3D spectroscopy
Stellar populations in galaxies

Gadotti, Dimitri

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galaxy Formation and Evolution

Galaxy Structure, Dynamics and Stellar Content

Galaxy Bulges

Bar-driven Secular Evolution

Mutli-component Decomposition of Galaxy Images

Personal Hompage

Barcons, Xavier

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Active Galactic Nuclei: structure, populations
Galaxy - supermassive black hole coevolution

Kemper, Francisca

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Astrophysics of dust
The life cycle of dust and gas
The ISM in galaxies
Evolved stars
Debris disks
Stellar populations
Astrostatistics
Infrared spectroscopy
Submillimeter observations

van der Burg, Remco

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galaxy Clusters
Galaxy Evolution
Structure Formation
Large Optical and (Near-)Infrared Surveys

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Bittner, Adrian

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Students

Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Galaxy Structure, Dynamics and Stellar Content
Secular Evolution of Galaxies
Integral-field Spectroscopy

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Fahrion, Katja

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Students

Globular Cluster Systems
Nuclear Star Clusters

Peroux, Celine

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Galaxy formation and evolution
Baryon cycle, circumgalactic medium
Evolution of metals, gas and dust
Galaxy kinematics
High-resolution/3D spectroscopy and millimetre astronomy

Personal Homepage

Andreani, Paola

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

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

Szakacs, Roland

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Students

Galaxy Formation and Evolution
Interstellar and Circumgalactic Medium
Astrochemistry
Computational Astrophysics

Calistro, Gabriela

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Cosmology and the Early Universe · Fellows

Multiwavelength observations of galaxies and accreting black holes across cosmic time
The role of the interstellar medium in galaxy and black-hole co-evolution

Personal Homepage

Popping, Gergely

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty