• Small bodies of the solar system
• Knowledge representation and knowledge processing (computer science)

• 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 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• Observational cosmology
• Galaxy evolution
• QSO absorption lines

• Gravitational lensing
• Cosmology
• Dark molecular clouds

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

• Extragalactic star clusters
• Interacting galaxies
• NIR imaging/spectroscopy

• 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

• High resolution spectroscopy
• Light elements abundances
• Chromospheric and Coronal activity

• Supernovae
• Statistical Data Analysis
• Monte Carlo Simulations

• 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

• 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

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

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

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

• Large scale structure
• Clusters of galaxies
• Active galaxies

• 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

• Star Formation
• Protoplanetary Disks
• Infrared Spectroscopy

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

• Planetary nebulae
• HII regions
• Polarimetry

• Star formation
• Millimeter and submillimeter radio astronomy
• Isotope determinations
• The center of our galaxy

• Optical interferometry
• Stellar surfaces
• AGN

• Galaxy formation & evolution
• Clusters of galaxies
• Cosmology

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

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

• Galactic chemical evolution
• Open clusters and moving groups
• High resolution spectroscopy

• Gravitational Lensing, Galaxy Clusters
• Observational Cosmology

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

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

• Early stages of massive star formation
• Molecular clouds
• Molecules in the galactic center
• Millimeter and submillimeter astronomy

• 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

• Ultracompact dwarf galaxies (UCDs)
• Globular cluster systems
• The Surface Brightness Fluctuation technique
• The peculiar velocity field in the nearby universe
• The faint end of the galaxy luminosity function

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

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

• Asteroseismology
• Pulsating stars
• Subdwarf B stars
• Late stages of stellar evolution

• Star formation
• Protostellar outflows and jets
• Protostellar disks
• High-mass protostars

• Environmental dependence of galaxy properties
• Galaxy evolution

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• High redshift galaxies
• High redshift clusters of galaxies
• Stellar populations
• Morphologies

• Instrumentation, especially interferometers and coronographs

• Young Stellar Objects: Formation and Early Stage Evolution
• Asteroseismology: roAp Stars
• Astrobiology

• AGN
• Optical variability
• Supernovae

• Low mass main sequence stars (magnetic activity, transition mass)
• The age of the milky way
• High resolution spectroscopy in optical and IR
• The COsmic Dynamics EXperiment

• ACS Slitless Spectra

• Locating galaxies clusters at redshift >1 using radiogalaxies and Spitzer data

• Galaxy formation and evolution
• High-redshift clusters

• Gravitational lensing
• Cosmology

• 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

• Formation and evolution of galaxies
• Stellar populations in elliptical galaxies
• Infrared spectroscopy

• Dwarf galaxies in nearby clusters
• The nature of Ultra Compact Dwarf galaxies

• Studies on Variable Stars and in particular Galactic and Magellanic Cepheids

• Emission nebulae at high redshift
• Population III stars

• Millimeter characteristics of galactic and extragalactic starbursts

• Scientific goals of ELT
• Extrasolar planet systems
• Star clusters
• Stellar populations
• Stellar spectroscopic analysis

• Stellar populations, in particular binary systems

• Optical and infrared spectroscopy
• Integral Field Unit Spectroscopy (IFU)
• Evolved stars (AGB> post AGB > PNe), especially velocity field of Planetary Nebulae (PNe)

• Star formation and young stellar objects
• (Infrared) spectroscopy

• Kinematics and origin of the diffuse light components in clusters of galaxies