People

in the CAST group

Group leader of the Computational Astrophysics (CAST) group

Andreas Burkert

	phone:	+49 89 2180 5992
	email:	andi usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I01
		publications, homepage

Nature of dark matter. Formation of galaxies. Active Galactic Nuclei. Structure and dynamics of the interstellar medium. Formation of turbulent molecular clouds, stars and stellar clusters. Planet formation.

Group leader of the Planet and Star Formation group

Barbara Ercolano

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6974
	email:	ercolano usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I 35
		publications, homepage

Protoplanetary discs and planet formation. Star formation and stellar feedback. Dust production by Supernovae. The structure, ionisation and chemistry of the Interstellar medium. Radiative transfer techniques.

Scientific Staff

Klaus Dolag

	phone:	+49 89 2180 5994
	email:	kdolag@mpa-garching.mpg.de
	office:	USM I 02
		publications, homepage

Magnetic Fields, Cosmology, Clusters of Galaxies

Postdocs

Tilman Birnstiel

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6029
	email:	tilman usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I25
		publications

Dust growth and transport in protoplanetary disks; structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks; planet formation; connection to mm-observations

James Dale

	phone:	+49 89 35831 7164
	email:	dale usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	EXC 015
		publications

3-D SPH simulations of the effects of stellar feedback, particularly photionization and stellar winds, on star-forming molecular clouds, to investigate the likelihood of triggered star formation and to evaluate the disruptive effect of feedback on embedded clusters.

Martin Ilgner

	phone:	+49 89 35831 7129
	email:	martin.ilgner lmu.de
	office:	EXC 038
		publications

Photoionisation models of the ISM, Chemistry and dynamics of protoplanetary discs

Martin Krause

	phone:	+49 89 30000 3349
	email:	krause mpe.mpg.de
	office:	MPE X2 365
		publications, homepage

Radiation hydrodynamics at opacity transitions; Energy transport in molecular tori. The role of activity in galaxy evolution, multiphase turbulence, astrophysical jets, magnetic fields in galaxy clusters (SKADS)

Marc Schartmann

	phone:	+49 89 30000 3712
	email:	schartmann mpe.mpg.de
	office:	MPE X2 358
		publications, homepage

Physics of gas and dust tori in Active Galactic Nuclei: radiative transfer calculations (MC3D), (radiation) hydrodynamic simulations (PLUTO/TRAMP), study of turbulence, clumpy torus models

Federico Stasyszyn

	phone:	+49 30000 2196
	email:	fstasys@mpa-garching.mpg.de
	office:	MPA / 285
		publications

Smoothed particle magneto-hydro-dynamics for cosmological applications
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Simon White

Graduate Students

Christian Alig

	phone:	+49 2180 5979
	email:	alig usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM E10/11
		publications

Numerical Simulations of the formation and evolution of turbulent gaseous discs and rings inside galactic centres.

Alessandro Ballone

	phone:	+49 89 30000 3884
	email:	aballone mpe.mpg.de
	office:	MPE X2 364
		publications

Stellar wind feedback in Galactic Nuclei, evolution of AGN tori in nearby Seyfert galaxies

Alexander Beck

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6031
	email:	abeck usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I25
		homepage

With Prof. Dr. Harald Lesch: Studying the evolution of magnetic fields in protogalaxies with the cosmological SPMHD code Gadget3.

Manuel Behrendt

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6006 & +49 89 30000 3884
	email:	mabe mpe.mpg.de
	office:	USM I13 & MPE 364
		publications, homepage

The Formation and Evolution of Galaxies at High-Redshifts

Katharina Fierlinger

	phone:	+49 89 35831 7124
	email:	katharina.fierlinger universe-cluster.de
	office:	126 @ Excellence Cluster / Boltzmannstr. 2 / D-85748 Garching
		publications

Interaction of massive star groups with the ISM: hydro models for radioactive tracers in the Orion Eridanus Superbubble. Codes: Andi's code & RAMSES

Wolfgang von Glasow

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6006
	email:	glasow usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I13
		publications

Galactic Winds: launching galactic outflows and feedback processes

Judith Ngoumou

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6006
	email:	ngoumou usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I13
		publications

Protoplanetary disk and planet formation

Eva Ntormousi

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6028
	email:	eva usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I 02
		publications

Molecular cloud formation in colliding flows

Beata Pasternak

	phone:	+49 89 2180 5982
	email:	beata usm.lmu.de
	office:	USM E 16
		publications

Non-thermal emission from galaxy clusters - evolution of cosmic rays in merging galaxy clusters.

Stephanie Pekruhl

	phone:	+49 89 2180 5979
	email:	pekruhl usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM E10/11
		publications

with Prof. Th. Preibisch: Observations & Simulations of Molecular Cloud Structure

Rhea-Silvia Remus

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6005
	email:	rhea usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I13
		publications

The Evolution of Galaxies in Groups; the Outer Structure of Elliptical Galaxies and their Dark Matter Halos.

Giovanni Rosotti


	email:	rosotti usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	EXC 038
		publications

SPH simulations of accretion disc, both protoplanetary discs, to evaluate the effect of X-ray photoionization on the evolution of the disc, and discs around supermassive black holes.

Martin Zintl

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6015
	email:	zintl usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I13
		publications

SPH simulations with GPUs

External Graduate Students

Veronica Biffi

	phone:	+49 30000 3340
	email:	biffi@mpe.mpg.de
	office:	MPE / x5 1.1.07
		publications

Studying the physics of galaxy clusters by simulations and X-ray observations
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Hans Boehringer

Julius Donnert

	phone:	+49 30000 2291
	email:	jdonnert@mpa-garching.mpg.de
	office:	MPA / 001
		publications

On the non-thermal emission in galaxy clusters
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Harald Lesch

Francesca Iannuzzi

	phone:	+49 30000 2329
	email:	iannuzzi@mpa-garching.mpg.de
	office:	MPA / 002
		publications

Studying the survival of galaxies in hydrodynamical simulations of clusters
Supervisors: Klaus Dolag, Simon White

Undergraduate Students

Max Brunner

	phone:	+49 89 2180 5979
	email:	brunner usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM E11
		publications

The influence of gas accretion on star formation in galactic discs.

Georg Michna


	email:	georg michna.com
		publications

TBD

Christine Maria Koepferl

	phone:	+49 89 2180 5979
	email:	koepferl usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM E11

Protoplanetary discs around young stars.

Summer Students

Antonia Bevan

	phone:	+44 79 4918 4226
	email:	amb219 cam.ac.uk
	office:	USM I25

Protoplanetary discs around young stars.

Former Group Members

Michael Aumer

High-redshift galactic disk formation and structure

Pawel Ciecielag

Planets formation: planetesimals accretion, gas drag, disk-planet interaction; Cosmology: large scale velocity fields, density-velocity comparisions; Numerical methods: direct n-body (Nbody4++ code, special purpose hardware - GRAPE), hydro (PPM, AMR, FLASH code).

Clare Dobbs

Molecular cloud formation in spiral galaxies. Formation of spiral galaxies.

Elena D'Onghia

Galaxy and Structure Formation, the nature of dark matter, galaxy evolution, groups of galaxies.

Matthias Gritschneder

Photoionisation in the environment of young, massive stars. Study of triggered star formation in proximity to these efficient ionisation sources. Numerical methods: SPH + Ionisation, VINE.

Helmut Hetznecker

Large scale structure formation, structure of dark matter halos, dwarf galaxies in dark matter halos

Michael Hilz

Binary black hole mergers in galaxies (VINE code)

Michaela Hirschmann

Origin of the anti-hierarchical growth of black holes in the universe

Roland Jesseit

Orbital theory, stellar dynamics, galaxy formation, physics of dark matter halos.

Peter Johansson

Galaxy and structure formation, analytic and numerical modelling of feedback, modelling of galaxy populations.

Veronika Junk

Formation and dynamics of galaxy substructure; problem of the missing satellites.

Simon Karl

Galaxy mergers with respect to the growth of central black holes (VINE code)

Hanna Kotarba

With Prof. Harald Lesch: Magnetic field evolution in isolated and interacting spiral galaxies. Numerical methods: N-body/SPH (GADGET)

Bernd Lang

Formation of stars, Turbulence, Accretion Disks, Prestellar Cores and Molecular Clouds, Radiative Transfer.

Chiara Mastropietro

Thorsten Naab

Ludwig Oser

The formation of the Hubble Sequence (GADGET code)

Stefanie Walch

Star formation with emphasis on the formation of protostellar disks, evolution and fragmentation of protoplanetary disks and the evolution of their spectral energy distributions. Numerical Methods: Grid-AMR: FLASH code; SPH: VINE code

Markus Wetzstein

Galaxy interactions / mergers, structure formation in the tidal arms of merging galaxies, formation of tidal dwarf galaxies, numerical methods for N-body / SPH (smoothed particle hydrodynamics) simulations, the VINE simulation code, special purpose hardware GRAPE for the computation of gravitational forces, implementation of the SPH algorithm on an FPGA (field programmable gate array) based special purpose hardware.