People

in the CAST group

CAST Group Outing Hamburg, March 2013

Older group pictures

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

Nickolas Moeckel

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6986
	email:	moeckel usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I03
		publications

Hydrodynamics and stellar dynamics of young star clusters and star forming regions. The interplay between stellar and planetary dynamics.

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,RADMC-3D), (radiation) hydrodynamic simulations (PLUTO), study of turbulence, clumpy torus models, Galactic Centre Physics, ISM Physics

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

Max Brunner

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

Self-regulated star formation in and evolution of galactic disks, including as infall from the cosmic web

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

Judith Ngoumou

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

Protoplanetary disk and planet formation

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

Undergraduate Students

Jaime Abella Payá

	phone:	+49 89 30000 3885
	email:	abella usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	MPE X2 364
		publications

Simulations of clumps in z~2 galaxies with stellar feedback

Alexander Arth

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6023
	email:	arth usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM I25
		publications

Working with Harald Lesch. Performing MHD simulations with Tree-PM/SPH Code Gadget. Implementing anisotropic conduction to improve simulations of galaxy cluster formation.

Lisa Bachmann

	phone:	+49 89 2180 6968
	email:	bachmann usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM E10
		publications

Active Galactic Nuclei in cosmological simulations

Georg Michna


	email:	georg michna.com
		publications

TBD

Anna Schauer

	phone:	+49 2180 6968
	email:	aschauer usm.uni-muenchen.de
	office:	USM E10

Planetary Nebulae as tracers in Elliptical Galaxies

Former Group Members