PhD Thesis Topics offered by ESO Faculty Members

ESO astronomers often are working on scientific programmes and data sets that are suited for PhD theses. This page gives an overview over what is currently offered by Faculty astronomers. Interested people should contact the staff directly for further information.

Thesis topic Thesis supervisor
ESO-Chile:
The Young Star Cluster Pismis 24 in Ara: A Laboratory of Star Formation and Massive Stars Evolution Giovanni Carraro
Gas in planet-forming young disks Bill Dent
Obscured star cluster population in the Milky Way Valentin Ivanov
Studying the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with (Sub-)mm Observations Ruediger Kneissl
Chemistry of the Diffuse Interstellar Medium of High-Redshift Galaxies Cedric Ledoux
Detection and characterization of exoplanets in disks with SPHERE Dimitri Mawet
Reconstructing Galaxy Histories from Globular Clusters Michael West
Using Quasars to Find High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies Michael West
ESO-Garching:
Protocluster formation: effect of radio activity on cluster and star formation Paola Andreani
Foreground emission and Cosmic Microwave background intrinsic anisotropies Paola Andreani
Testing galaxy formation in high density environments - the extended stellar haloes of giant elliptical galaxies Magda Arnaboldi
Robonet Microlensing Planet Search Daniel Bramich
Algorithms in Astronomy Daniel Bramich
Studying variable stars in globular and open clusters Daniel Bramich
Studying the magnetic atmospheres of young stars Mark Casali
Finding and modeling the "hidden" rapidly rotating, magnetically active stars Thomas Dall
Hydrodynamical simulations: the role of bars and the fueling of black holes Eric Emsellem
Evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies from redshift 0 to 1.5 Wolfram Freudling
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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Optical interferometric imaging of rapidly rotating stars Christian Hummel
High-mass Star Formation at High-Angular Resolution Liz Humphreys
Evolution of Solar-type Stars using ALMA Liz Humphreys
Star Formation: magnetic fields & accretion
 Gaitee Hussain
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Kepler lightcurves: Magnetic activity & flux emergence timescales in Sun-like stars
 Gaitee Hussain
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Use of CO rotional vibrational absorption spectroscopy to study physical conditions of very early stages for star formation Hans-Ulrich Käufl
Study of Intermediate-mass Black Holes Markus Kissler-Patig
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Spectroscopy of (Exo-)Planet Atmospheres Markus Kissler-Patig
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Mapping the star-formation history of early-type galaxies Harald Kuntschner
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Tim de Zeeuw
Evolution of SN 1987A Bruno Leibundgut
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Direct Detection Damped Lyman-alpha Absorbers Bruno Leibundgut
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Disentangling galaxy formation: the evolution of bulges and disks Jochen Liske
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Towards a direct measurement of the expansion history of the Universe Jochen Liske
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Luca Pasquini
Multi-wavelength studies of blazars
 Paolo Padovani
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Pinning down the nature of Type Ia SN progenitors Ferdinando Patat
Near-IR view of the Milky Way bulge Marina Rejkuba
Gravitational Lensing as a Dark Matter and Cosmological Probe Piero Rosati
Dust in 3d: From protostars and stellar clusters to AGN Ralf Siebenmorgen
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Structure of the planet-forming region in circumstellar disks models confronted with high-angular resolution observations Ralf Siebenmorgen
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The Formation and Early Evolution of Massive Stars Mario van den Ancker
Optical-Infrared Studies of Planet Formation Around Intermediate-Mass Stars Mario van den Ancker
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA Eelco van Kampen
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