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
Reconstructing Galaxy Histories from Globular Clusters Michael West
Using Quasars to Find High-Redshift Clusters of Galaxies Michael West
A New Look at the Galactic Globular Cluster System Michael West
ESO-Garching:
Dark Energy Constraints with ALMA Polarization Measurements Paola Andreani
Luminosity function of far-Infrared (FIR) galaxies and AGN as a function of redshift Paola Andreani
Testing galaxy formation in high density environments - the extended stellar haloes of giant elliptical galaxies Magda Arnaboldi
Studying the magnetic atmospheres of young stars Mark Casali
Finding and modeling the "hidden" rapidly rotating, magnetically active stars Thomas Dall
Evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies from redshift 0 to 1.5 Wolfram Freudling
Detection and photometry of exoplanets with multiple-frame, high-contrast methods Szymon Gladysz and
Markus Kissler-Patig
The star formation and chemical enrichment history of omega Centauri and the assembly of the Galactic halo Michael Hilker
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Dwarf galaxies and star clusters in the group and cluster environment Michael Hilker
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High-mass Star Formation at High-Angular Resolution Liz Humphreys
Star Formation: mapping young Suns and protoplanetary environments Gaitee Hussain
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The evolution of magnetic activity on young Suns 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
Mapping the star-formation history of early-type galaxies Harald Kuntschner Home page and
Tim de Zeeuw
Probing the central regions of galaxies Harald Kuntschner Home page and
Tim de Zeeuw
Star and Star Cluster Formation in Interacting Galaxies Markus Kissler-Patig
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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
A comprehensive view of star formation history and Black Hole accretion Vincenzo Mainieri,
Paolo Padovani Home page and
Piero Rosati
Blazars in SWIFT deep pointings: a multi-wavelength study Paolo Padovani
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Exo - Planets in the Open Cluster M67 Luca Pasquini and Claudio Melo
A ViVA (Virtual VLT Analysis) of Galactic Clusters Luca Pasquini and
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
The calibration of the cool end of the main sequence Andrea Richichi
Gravitational Lensing as a Dark Matter and Cosmological Probe Piero Rosati and Marco Lombardi
Dust in 3d: From protostars and stellar clusters to AGN Ralf Siebenmorgen
The Formation and Early Evolution of Massive Stars Mario van den Ancker
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA Eelco van Kampen
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