ESO - Research Area: PLANETS AND STAR FORMATION

Research Area: PLANETS AND STAR FORMATION

Topics covered in this research area

Detection and characterisation of extrasolar planets
Observational methods to study the earliest stages of star formation
The circumstellar environment of high and low mass stars
Star formation at the Galactic Centre

Thesis topics offered on 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

Scientific Staff in Garching working on Planet and Star Formation

Berger, Jean-Philippe

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Star and planet formation
Accretion disks
Interacting binaries
Instrumentation research and technology

Casali, Mark

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Star formation and young stellar evolution
Magnetic fields on young stars
Infrared instrumentation

Hainaut, Olivier

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Comets, asteroids, trans-neptunian objects
Surface properties and evolution of icy bodies
Cometary activity at large heliocentric distances
Ultra-deep imaging

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Ivanov, Valentin

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Faculty

Transiting exoplanets
Nearby brown dwarfs and low mass stars
Milky Way structure and star clusters

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Hummel, Christian

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Optical and near-IR interferometry
Double stars and stellar evolution
Star formation

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Beccari, Giacomo

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Pre-main Sequence Stars in massive star-burst Clusters
Stellar Population in Clusters
Stellar dynamics in Globular Clusters
Exotica in Globular Clusters (BSS, MSP, IMBH)
Resolved stellar populations in dSph

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Humphreys, Liz

Cosmology and the Early Universe · Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Populations · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Central Parsecs of AGN
High-Mass Star Formation
Evolved Star Mass Loss
Millimetre and Submillimetre Astronomy

Hussain, Gaitee

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Magnetic activity in cool stars and stellar clusters
Optical, NIR and X-ray spectroscopy of stars and circumstellar environments
T Tauri and pre-main sequence stars
Stellar surface imaging

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Ivison, Rob

Planets and Star Formation · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Faculty

Evolution of the ISM in galaxies
Formation of galaxies in the distant Universe
Dust formation
Masers
Proto-Planetary disks
Exoplanets

K��ufl, Hans-Ulrich

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Stellar evolution (post main sequence, RGB, AGB, post-AGB)
Star formation
Planetary and cometary atmospheres
Very high resolution imaging and interferometry

Lo Curto, Gaspare

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Isolated neutron stars
Planet formation
Stars in the solar neighborhood
High resolution spectroscopy, precise radial velocity measurements

Pasquini, Luca

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

Precision Spectroscopy, direct measurement of the cosmic acceleration
Light Element Abundances (Li and Be): Primordial Nucleosynthesis, Galactic Enrichment, Stellar Mixing
Globular Clusters: light elements anti-correlations
Chemical Abundance of stars in the local group, in clusters and in the field
Exo-Planets, planets around evolved stars

Petr-Gotzens, Monika

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Star formation
TTauri stars, Pre-main sequence binaries
Young stellar clusters

Ramsay, Suzanne

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

star formation in this and nearby galaxies
cirumstellar matter (disks, outflows)
near-infrared spectroscopy (particularly of H2)

Siebenmorgen, Ralf

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Physics of interstellar dust
IR/mm continuum: imaging
Formation of stars/galaxies

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Sterzik, Michael

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Low mass star formation
Observations of brown dwarfs and planets
Bioastronomy

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Testi, Leonardo

Planets and Star Formation · Stellar Structure and Evolution · Faculty

High mass star formation
Young (proto-)stellar clusters
Young brown dwarfs
Circumstellar disks and their evolution

van den Ancker, Mario

Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Star Formation
Protoplanetary Disks
Infra red Spectroscopy

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Ginsburg, Adam

Planets and Star Formation · Evolution of Galaxies and the ISM · Fellows

High mass star and cluster formation
Turbulence in molecular clouds
Millimeter and centimeter observations, in particular large-area & Galactic Plane surveys
Data analysis tools & python, especially astropy

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Grunhut, Jason

Stellar Structure and Evolution · Planets and Star Formation · Faculty

Incidence and structure of magnetic fields of massive stars
Magnetism and pulsations of early type stars
Stellar surface and circumstellar imaging
High-resolution, optical spectropolarimetry of stars and their circumstellar environment

Immer, Katharina

Planets and Star Formation · Fellows

High-mass star formation
Chemistry of molecular clouds
Spiral Structure and Kinematics of the Milky Way via trigonometric parallax observations
Star formation in the Central Molecular Zone

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McClure, Melissa

Planets and Star Formation · Fellows