Research Area: COSMOLOGY AND THE EARLY UNIVERSE

Topics covered in this research area

Subjects in this research area aim at understanding the dark contents of the Universe (Dark Matter and Dark Energy) with the goal of understanding its expansion history since the Big Bang.

  • Type Ia supernovae as probes of Dark Energy
  • Type II supernovae as extragalactic distance indicators (Hubble constant)
  • X-ray clusters and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect
  • Weak lensing and the large-scale distribution of Dark Matter
  • Cosmology with the European Extremeley Large Telescope (E-ELT)

Thesis topics offered on Cosmology and the Early Universe

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor(s)
Protocluster formation: effect of radio activity on cluster and star formation Paola Andreani
Foreground emission and Cosmic Microwave background intrinsic anisotropies Paola Andreani
Evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies from redshift 0 to 1.5 Wolfram Freudling
Evolution of SN 1987A Bruno Leibundgut
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Towards a direct measurement of the expansion history of the Universe Jochen Liske
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Luca Pasquini
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA Eelco van Kampen
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Scientific Staff in Garching working on Cosmology and the Early Universe

Faculty

Name Interests

Paola Andreani		 Scientific interests:
  • Observational cosmology
  • Formation and evolution of galaxies and QSOs
  • Far infrared and submillimetric extragalactic backgrounds

Sandro D'Odorico		 Scientific interests:
  • Intergalactic medium at high redshifts
  • Primeval galaxies

Adam Dobrzycki		 Scientific interests:
  • Quasar surveys
  • X-ray surveys
  • Quasar absorption lines
  • Computational astronomy

Wolfram Freudling		 Scientific interests:
  • Observational cosmology
  • High-redshift galaxies and quasars
  • Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs)
  • Large Scale Structure and peculiar motion of galaxies

Liz Humphreys		 Scientific interests:
  • Central Parsecs of AGN
  • High-Mass Star Formation
  • Evolved Star Mass Loss
  • Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

Bruno Leibundgut		 Scientific interests:
  • Supernovae
  • QSO absorbers
  • Cosmology
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Jochen Liske		 Scientific interests:
  • Observational cosmology
  • Galaxy evolution
  • QSO absorption lines
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Palle Møller		 Scientific interests:
  • 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

Piero Rosati		 Scientific interests:
  • Observational cosmology
  • Formation and evolution of galaxies and clusters

Jason Spyromilio		 Scientific interests:
  • Supvernovae, their use as distance indicators
  • IR spectroscopy
  • High resolution spectroscopy
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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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Fellows

Name Interests

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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Farid Rahoui		 Scientific interests:
  • 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

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

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Students

Name Interests

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

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

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