Research Area 4: 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(s)
Testing galaxy formation in high density environments - the extended stellar haloes of giant elliptical galaxies Magda Arnaboldi
Hydrodynamical simulations: the role of bars and the fueling of black holes Eric Emsellem
The high-mass end of the globular cluster mass function Michael Hilker
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The internal dynamics of globular clusters and ultra-compact dwarf galaxies Michael Hilker
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Mapping the star-formation history of early-type galaxies Harald KuntschnerHome page and
Tim de Zeeuw
Probing the central regions of galaxies Harald KuntschnerHome page and
Tim de Zeeuw
Disentangling galaxy formation: the evolution of bulges and disks Jochen Liske
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Multi-wavelength studies of blazars
 Paolo Padovani
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Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA Eelco van Kampen
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Scientific Staff in Garching working on Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

Faculty

Name Interests

Magda Arnaboldi		 Scientific interests:
  • 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

Andy Biggs		 Scientific interests:
  • Starburst galaxies
  • Gravitational lensing

Carlos De Breuck		 Scientific interests:
  • High redshift radio galaxies
  • Radio and millimetre interferometry
  • Radio surveys
  • Optical spectropolarimetry
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Tim de Zeeuw		 Scientific interests:
  • Formation, structure and dynamics of galaxies, including the Galaxy
  • Star clusters and OB associations

Eric Emsellem		 Scientific interests:
  • Galactic dynamics
  • Early-type galaxies
  • Stellar populations
  • 3D spectroscopy
  • Numerical simulations
  • Data analysis softwares

Robert Fosbury		 Scientific interests:
  • AGN
  • High z galaxies
  • Polarimetry

Preben Grosbøl		 Scientific interests:
  • Stellar dynamics
  • Spiral galaxies

Evanthia Hatziminaoglou		 Scientific interests:
  • Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
  • Infrared extragalactic astronomy
  • Extragalactic Surveys
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Harald Kuntschner		 Scientific interests:
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Stellar populations of early-type galaxies
  • Extragalactic globular clusters
  • Integral-field spectroscopy
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Robert Laing		 Scientific interests:
  • 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.

Jochen Liske		 Scientific interests:
  • Observational cosmology
  • Galaxy evolution
  • QSO absorption lines
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Vincenzo Mainieri		 Scientific interests:
  • 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

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

Paolo Padovani

Scientific interests:

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

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Michael Rosa		 Scientific interests:
  • HII regions
  • Star formation
  • Nearby galaxies

Lowell Tacconi-Garman		 Scientific interests:
  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Starburst Galaxies
  • Super Star Clusters
  • Adaptive Optics/NIR Imaging and Spectroscopy

Eelco van Kampen		 Scientific interests:
  • The formation and evolution of galaxies
  • High-redshift galaxies and galaxy clusters
  • Cosmological simulations
  • Gravitational lensing

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Joël Vernet		 Scientific interests:
  • High redshift galaxies and AGN
  • Kinematics of distant galaxies
  • Polarimetry
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Martin Zwaan		 Scientific interests:
  • Role of cool gas in galaxy evolution
  • Relation between QSO absorption lines and galaxies
  • Galaxy mass functions, luminosity functions
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Fellows

Name Interests

Lodovico Coccato		 Scientific interests:
  • Kinematics and stellar population in nearby galaxies
  • Super massive black holes
  • Giant low surface brightness galaxies
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Luca Cortese		 Scientific interests:
  • Nearby Galaxies
  • Environmental Effects
  • Star formation cycle in galaxies
  • Dust extinction
  • Multiwavelength astronomy

Timothy Davis		 Scientific interests:
  • Galaxy Formation and Evolution
  • Molecular gas properties/dynamics and star-formation
  • Early-type galaxies

Mirko Krumpe		 Scientific interests:
  • 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

Claudia Lagos		 Scientific interests:
  • 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

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Grant Tremblay		 Scientific interests:
  • AGN Feedback
  • Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies
  • Radio Galaxies

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Mark Westmoquette		 Scientific interests:
  • Young massive star clusters
  • Starburst galaxies
  • Galactic winds and outflows
  • Hydrodynamic wind-clump interactions
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Students

Name Interests

Margherita Bonzini		 Scientific interests:
  • Galaxy formation and evolution
  • Active Galactic Nuclei
  • Observational cosmology

Marco De Pascale		 Scientific interests:
  • Machine learning and classification
  • Supernovae
  • Galactic archaeology
  • Cosmology

Anna Feltre		 Scientific interests:
  • Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
  • Infrared extragalactic astronomy
  • High energy astrophysics

Bitten Gullberg		 Scientific interests:
  • Galaxy evolution and molecular gas in the interstellar medium in high redshift galaxies

Florian Niederhofer		 Scientific interests:
  • High-Mass Star Formation
  • Massive Stars
  • Stellar Populations
  • ISM of Galaxies

Joel Sánchez		 Scientific interests:
  • Massive stars
  • Galactic Centre science
  • Circum-stellar medium
  • Optical Long Baseline Interferometry
  • Sparse Aperture Masking Interferometry

Fernanda Urrutia		 Scientific interests:
  • Tidal Dwarf Galaxies in Interacting galaxies
  • Star-forming regions

Dominika Wylezalek		 Scientific interests:
  • Observational cosmology
  • Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
  • High-redshift galaxies