• 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

• Star and planet formation
• Accretion disks
• Interacting binaries
• Instrumentation research and technology

• Starburst galaxies
• Gravitational lensing

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

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

• 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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• Low-mass star formation
• Pre- and proto-brown dwarfs
• Protoplanetary disks formation and evolution
• Jets and molecular outflows
• Centimeter, Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy: Interferometry and Single Dish techniques

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

• X-ray binaries
• Black holes and neutron stars
• High-energy astrophysics
• Accretion disc atmospheres, winds and jets
• Ultra-luminous X-ray sources and AGN

• 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

• Comets, asteroids, trans-neptunian objects
• Surface properties and evolution of icy bodies
• Cometary activity at large heliocentric distances
• Ultra-deep imaging

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

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

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

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• 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 /  (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution / (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
• 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

• 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

• 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

• Co-evolution of black holes and galaxies
• Nuclear star clusters
• Build-up of galaxy centres
• Galactic dynamics
• 3D Spectroscopy

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• BL Lacertae Objects
• X-ray and gamma-ray emission of AGN
• Blazar Surveys
• Deep radio surveys
• AGN - starburst connection

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

• 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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• Low mass star formation
• Observations of brown dwarfs and planets
• Bioastronomy

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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

• Resolved stellar populations
• Star Clusters
• Galactic Bulge
• Chemical Abundances
• Adaptive optics - NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Research Area(s): (2) Stellar Structure and Evolution / (3) Stellar Populations

• 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

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

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• Optical interferometry
• Stellar surfaces
• AGN

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

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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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• Kinematics and stellar population in nearby galaxies
• Super massive black holes
• Giant low surface brightness galaxies

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

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• Galaxy Formation and Evolution
• Molecular gas properties/dynamics and star-formation
• Early-type galaxies

• Star Formation, with emphasis on high-mass stars and clusters
• Radio and (sub)mm observations and modeling

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

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• Hot subdwarf stars
• Close binaries
• Substellar companions to hot stars
• SN Ia progenitors

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

• Transiting exoplanets; detection and characterisation
• Exoplanet atmospheres (via transmission and emission spectroscopy)
• Time series analysis using advanced Bayesian methods

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

• Incidence and structure of magnetic fields of massive stars
• Magnetism and pulsations of early type stars
• Stellar surface and circumstellar imaging
• High-resolution, optical spectropolarimetry of stars and their circumstellar environment

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

Marie-Currie Fellow

Scientific interests:

• Low-Mass and High-Mass Star Formation
• Chemistry of the ISM
• Stellar Winds and Jets
• Millimeter and Sub-Millimeter Astronomy

• Extrasolar planet searches
• Gravitational microlensing
• Debris disk evolution
• Robotic telescopes

• Clustering measurements of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs)
• X-ray surveys and multi-wavelength follow-up
• Search for Compton-thick absorbed AGNs
• X-ray spectroscopy of AGNs

• Simulations of the formation and evolution of galaxies
• Modelling of the ISM, star formation and feedback
• Galaxy and black hole co-evolution in large surveys

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

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Marie-Currie Fellow

Scientific interests:

• Supernovae
• Observational cosmology
• Supernova progenitors

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

• Multi-wavelengths study of high energy sources
• Black holes and Neutron stars
• X-ray binaries (low- and high mass) evolution and direct environment
• Accretion discs and jet physics in microquasars and quasars

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

• AGN Feedback
• Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies
• Radio Galaxies

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

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• Infrared dark clouds
• Initial conditions of high-mass star formation
• mm/submm/cm interferometry
• Far-IR spectroscopy and photometry with Herschel

• Solar/Stellar Magnetic Fields and Activity
• Plasma Astrophysics
• High Resolution Spectropolarimetry

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• Active Galactic Nuclei
• Observational cosmology

• Accretion Variability in YSOs
• Stellar Winds and Jets
• Formation of low mass stars and brown dwarfs
• Circumstellar disks

• Machine learning and classification
• Supernovae
• Galactic archaeology
• Cosmology

• Globular clusters
• Nuclear star clusters
• Central massive black holes in star clusters
• Galactic and cluster dynamics

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• Infrared extragalactic astronomy
• High energy astrophysics

• Globular and open clusters
• Variable stars
• Gravitational lensing events
• Lightcurves of accreting black holes

• Supernovae: IIP, Ia
• Cosmology
• NIR Spectroscopy

• Galaxy evolution and molecular gas in the interstellar medium in high redshift galaxies

• Variable stars
• Galactic Bulge
• Globular clusters
• Difference imaging analysis

• Cepheids and Variable Stars
• Galaxy Structure and Kinematics
• Cosmic Distance Scale

• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks and their Evolution
• Accretion Processes in Star Formation and Disk evolution

• High-Mass Star Formation
• Massive Stars
• Stellar Populations
• ISM of Galaxies

• Formation, evolution and dynamics of galaxies
• Dwarf galaxies
• Globular clusters
• Numerical simulations

• Massive stars
• Galactic Centre science
• Circum-stellar medium
• Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
• Sparse Aperture Masking Interferometry

• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• High-redshift AGN and quasars
• Blazars: accretion-jet connection

• Low mass star formation
• Young stars with planet-forming discs

• Protoplanetary discs: structure and dynamics
• Gas-dust interaction in protoplanetary discs
• Planet formation

• Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Interacting galaxies
• Star-forming regions

• Dwarf galaxies in clusters
• Galaxy evolution
• Galactic dynamics

• Globular cluster evolution
• Galactic chemical evolution

• Observational cosmology
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
• High-redshift galaxies

• Planetary atmosphere
• Exo-planet