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.

ESO Chile

*Thesis topic*	*Thesis supervisor*
The binary central stars of planetary nebulae	Henri Boffin
An interferometry study of interacting binaries	Henri Boffin
Mass transfer in interacting binaries - numerical simulations	Henri Boffin
The Young Star Cluster Pismis 24 in Ara: A Laboratory of Star Formation and Massive Stars Evolution	Giovanni Carraro
Statistical Star formation in Lupus	Bill Dent
The onset of cluster formation near young high-mass stars	Willem-Jan De Wit
Studying the Cosmological Evolution of Galaxy Clusters with (Sub-)mm Observations	Ruediger Kneissl
Studies of Planet Formation by Imaging and Spectroscopy of Exoplanets and Circumstellar Disks	Zahed Wahhaj

ESO Garching

Planets and Star Formation

*Thesis topic*	*Thesis supervisor(s)*
Star formation: probing magnetic fields and their spheres of influence	Gaitee Hussain (Home page)
Space weather in young solar systems	Gaitee Hussain (Home page)
Use of CO rotional vibrational absorption spectroscopy to study physical conditions of very early stages for star formation	Hans-Ulrich K�?ufl
High-mass Star Formation at High-Angular Resolution	Liz Humphreys
High-Contrast Imaging of Planet-Forming Disks in Intermediate-Mass Young Stars	Mario van den Ancker
Dust polarisation in 3d	Ralf Siebenmorgen

Stellar Structure and Evolution

*Thesis topic*	Thesis supervisor(s)
Constraining Stellar Interiors and Mixing via Depletion Sequences of Light Elements	Francesca Primas
Magnetic fields and interaction in binary systems	Gaitee Hussain (Home page)
Evolution of Solar-type Stars using ALMA	Liz Humphreys
The dawn of planets: structure and evolution of protoplanetary disks with ALMA	Leonardo Testi
The role of magnetic fields in the intermediate-mass star formation process	Markus Sch��ller
Magnetic fields in massive stars	Markus Sch��ller
Interferometric studies of the mass-loss process from cool evolved stars	Markus Wittkowski

Stellar Populations

*Thesis topic*	Thesis supervisor(s)
Discovery and characterisation of Pre Main Sequence stars in southern star forming regions	Giacomo Beccari and Leonardi Testi
Planetary Nebulae and HII regions in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 5128	Marina Rejkuba and Jeremy Walsh (Home page)
Resolved stellar populations in near-IR	Marina Rejkuba
Next generation Fornax Cluster surveys	Michael Hilker
Obscured star cluster population in the Milky Way	Valentin Ivanov

Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM

*Thesis topic*	*Thesis supervisor(s)*
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA	Eelco van Kampen (Home page)
Fuelling and growth of galaxy nuclei	Eric Emsellem
How much can a supermassive black hole consume?	Evanthia Hatziminaoglou
The interplay of massive stars, gas and dust in very nearby starbursts	Jeremy Walsh (Home page)
Properties of kinematically decoupled structures in Early-Type Galaxies	Dr. Lodovico Coccato
Testing the non-universality of the low-mass end of the Initial Mass Function in massive Early-Type Galaxies	Dr. Lodovico Coccato
Testing galaxy formation in high density environments - the extended stellar haloes of giant elliptical galaxies	Magda Arnaboldi
Next generation Fornax Cluster surveys	Michael Hilker
Dynamical models of multiple globular cluster populations around massive galaxies	Michael Hilker and Adriano Agnello
Black hole accretion versus star burst episodes: what is the engine of powerful active galaxies?	Paola Andreani
The physics of a nearby galaxy sample (HRS): gas, dust and stellar population and their relationship	Paola Andreani
Multi-wavelength studies of blazars	Paolo Padovani (Home page)
The physics of AGN outflows: are they able to shape their own galaxy?	Vincenzo Mainieri and (Home page) Paolo Padovani (Home page)
ALMACAL: the evolution of the molecular gas in galaxies using ALMA calibrator observations	Martin Zwaan

Cosmology and the Early Universe

*Thesis topic*	Thesis supervisor(s)
Evolution of SN 1987A	Bruno Leibundgut (Home page)
Studying the first galaxy clusters with ALMA	Eelco van Kampen (Home page)
Foreground emission and Cosmic Microwave background intrinsic anisotropies	Paola Andreani
Evolution of the interstellar medium in galaxies from redshift 0 to 1.5	Wolfram Freudling
Cepheid stars, Ho and Dark Energy: precision stellar astrophysics for precision cosmology	Martino Romaniello
Towards a direct measurement of the expansion history of the Universe	Luca Pasquini

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