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ESO Garching

Planets and Star Formation

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor
Probing the past history of star formation through red supergiants Fernando Comerón
Exoplanet characterisation with optical interferometry Antoine Mérand, Sylvestre Lacour
Study of the molecular gas in planet-forming disks with ALMA Anna Miotello
Exploring the physics of cosmic dust by Monte Carlo radiative transfer simulations of polarized light Ralf Siebenmorgen, Mario van den Ancker
The dawn of planets: structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks with ALMA Leonardo Testi

Stellar Structure and Evolution

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor
The origin and evolution of accretion disc winds in black hole and neutron star X-ray binaries María Díaz Trigo
The role of magnetic fields in the intermediate-mass star formation process Markus Schöller
Magnetic fields in massive stars Markus Schöller

Stellar Populations

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor
Planetary nebulae populations, dynamics and star formation histories of dwarf galaxies Magda Arnaboldi (ESO), Souradeep Bhattacharya (IUCAA)
Disks, stellar halos, and disk-halo interface in the Andromeda galaxy (M31) resolved with planetary nebulae Magda Arnaboldi (ESO), Souradeep Bhattacharya (IUCAA)
The origin of the blue stellar halos around Massive Group-Dominant Galaxies Magda Arnaboldi (ESO Garching), Johanna Hartke (ESO Chile)
Mapping the mass assembly of galaxies in groups and clusters Magda Arnaboldi, Michael Hilker
Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions Giacomo Beccari, Leonardo Testi
Obscured star cluster population in the Milky Way Valentin Ivanov
Identification of low mass nearby objects from multi-epoch near-infrared surveys Valentin Ivanov
Light Element abundances (Li and Be) in nearby galactic and extragalactic stars Luca Pasquini (ESO), Rodolfo Smiljanic (CAMK/PAN, Poland)

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor
The physical conditions of Star-Formation/AGN feedback’s end run: gas and dust in the Circum-Galactic medium (CGM): two clusters as test-bench Paola Andreani, Carlos De Breuck
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 (ESO), Souradeep Bhattacharya (IUCAA)
The origin of the blue stellar halos around Massive Group-Dominant Galaxies Magda Arnaboldi (ESO Garching), Johanna Hartke (ESO Chile)
Mapping the mass assembly of galaxies in groups and clusters Magda Arnaboldi, Michael Hilker
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)
AGN outflows impact on the molecular gas: linking observations with simulations Vincenzo Mainieri (ESO), Tiago Costa (MPA), Chris Harrison (Newcastle University)
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)
Unlocking the astrophysics of the circum-galactic medium Celine Peroux (Home page), Harald Kuntschner
Characterising the Physical Conditions of the Circumgalactic Medium Celine Peroux (Home page), Martin Zwaan
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

Cosmology and the Early Universe

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor
Evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies from redshift 0 to 1.5 Wolfram Freudling
Measuring the redshift drift with quasars  Luca Pasquini
Cepheid stars, Ho and Dark Energy: precision stellar astrophysics for precision cosmology Martino Romaniello
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA Eelco van Kampen (Home page)