Astronomers, Fellows, Students and Visitors at ESO Chile are engaged in forefront astronomical research. Here you can learn more about some of the exciting science being done in Santiago.

Thematic Research groups

• Compact Binaries Group - Group Coordinator: Linda Schmidtobreick
• Extragalactic Astronomy Research Group - Group Coordinators: Dimitri Gadotti and Ruben Sanchez-Janssen
  
• Hot and Massive Stars Group - Group Coordinator: Thomas Rivinius
• Planetary Sciences Research Group - Group coordinator: Christophe Dumas
• Star Formation and (sub)mm Astronomy Group - Group coordinator: Dieter Nürnberger
• Star Cluster Group - Group coordinators: Steffen Mieske & Giovanni Carraro

For more information about research activities in Garching please consult the Garching Research Projects pages.

PhD Projects

A number of PhD Thesis Topics are offered by ESO Faculty Members.