Research Area: STELLAR STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION

Topics covered in this research area

Stellar evolution, especially the late stages, for example:
- Mass loss
- Planetary nebulae
- Supernovae
Stellar surface abundances
Stellar surface structures
Stellar pulsations
Stellar magnetic fields and magnetic activity
Low mass stars

These research topics are covered using observations from X-rays to Infrared, and with many different techniques, e.g., high resolution optical/IR spectroscopy, optical interferometry and polarimetry.

People working on this research area also meet regularly in so-called "stellar coffee".

Thesis topics offered on Stellar Structure and Evolution

Thesis topic	Thesis supervisor
Studying variable stars in globular and open clusters	Daniel Bramich
Finding and modeling the "hidden" rapidly rotating, magnetically active stars	Thomas Dall
Evolution of Solar-type Stars using ALMA	Liz Humphreys
Kepler lightcurves: Magnetic activity & flux emergence timescales in Sun-like stars	Gaitee Hussain Home page
Pinning down the nature of Type Ia SN progenitors	Ferdinando Patat

Scientific Staff in Garching working on Stellar Structure and Evolution

Faculty
Fellows
Students
Postdocs hosted at ESO

Faculty

Name	Interests
Dietrich Baade	Scientific interests: Pulsations and mass loss of early type stars Light atomic elements in the interstellar medium Late stages of stellar evolution
Daniel Bramich	Scientific interests: 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
Thomas Dall	Scientific interests: Stellar magnetic fields and activity Planets, disks, and star-planet interactions Stellar variability Binary star evolution High-resolution spectroscopy
Roberto Gilmozzi	Scientific interests: Novae, Supernovae UV astronomy Future Telescopes
Gaitee Hussain	Scientific interests: 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 Personal home page
Florian Kerber	Scientific interests: Planetary nebulae Late stages of stellar evolution Stellar mass loss and interaction with the interstellar medium
Sabine Moehler	Scientific interests: Galactic globular clusters Horizontal branch stars Late stages of stellar evolution Personal home page
Luca Pasquini	Scientific interests: 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
Ferdinando Patat	Scientific interests: Supernovae Statistical Data Analysis Monte Carlo Simulations Personal home page
Francesca Primas	Scientific interests: Galactic chemical evolution UV and optical astronomy High-resolution spectroscopy
Andrea Richichi	Scientific interests: 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
Markus Scholler	Scientific interests: Optical Long Baseline Interferometry Stellar magnetic fields Star formation and stellar evolution
Elena Valenti	Scientific interests: Resolved stellar populations Star Clusters Galactic Bulge Chemical Abundances Adaptive optics - NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy
Jeremy Walsh	Scientific interests: Planetary nebulae HII regions Polarimetry Personal home page
Markus Wittkowski	Scientific interests: Optical interferometry Stellar surfaces AGN Personal home page

Fellows

Name

Interests

Eric Lagadec

Scientific interests:

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

Personal home page

Rodolfo Smiljanic

Scientific interests:

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

Students

Name	Interests
Leticia Ferreira	Scientific interests: Open Clusters Stellar Characterization of Host planet stars Stellar abundances of late-type stars
Masha Lakicević	Scientific interests: Supernovae: evolution, progenitor stars, models, characteristics, dust properties Magellanic Clouds SNRs SN1987A