
Group members
Group leader

Annalisa Pillepich
Group LeaderResearch interest: Large volume cosmological Simulations for Galaxy physics and Cosmology (e.g. IllustrisTNG), Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Milky Way's Structure and Assembly, Clusters of Galaxies, large-scale Structure, and cluster Galaxies, Stellar Haloes and low-surface brightness Features, Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters, Early Universe and Primordial non-Gaussianity, 21-cm Cosmology
Postdocs

Martina Donnari
Research interests: Galaxies, Galaxy Clusters, Galaxies and Clusters formation and evolution, Galaxies dynamics, N-body and cosmological simulations

Gandhali Joshi
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution; mass loss, star formation quenching and morphological transformations; environmental effects; N-body & hydrodynamical simulations

Nhut Truong
Research interests: Galaxies and clusters formation and evolution, supermassive black holes feedback, cosmological simulations, synthetic X-ray analyses
Postdoc Fellows

Allison Merritt
Research interests: stellar halos, dwarf galaxies, ultra diffuse galaxies, low surface brightness imaging

Maxime Trebitsch
Research interests: Galaxy formation, reionization, high-redshift galaxies and black holes, cosmological simulations, radiative transfer
PhD Students

Lukas Eisert
University of Heidelberg (M.Sc. Physics)
Research interests: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Cosmological Simulations, Data Science/Machine Learning

Christoph Engler
Research interests: Dwarf galaxies, Galaxy formation and evolution, Cluster galaxy populations in observations and simulations

Diego Sotillo Ramos
Research interests: galaxy formation and evolution, galaxy clusters, galactic dynamics, cosmological simulations

Eric Rohr
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, cosmological simulations, cosmic baryon cycle, relationship between baryons and dark matter, galaxy mergers
Undergrad Students (Master and Bachelor)

Junia Goeller
Research interests: Large scale structure formation, galaxy formation and evolution, dark matter/dark energy, cosmological simulations (e.g. IllustrisTNG)

Kaj Kramer
Research interests: TBD
Former Group Members

Moritz Fischer
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Numerical astrophysics, Developing numerical simulations

Luis Hellmich
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Illustris, Neutronstar EoS

Mark Lovell
Research interests: dark matter, Local Group, galaxy formation

Patrick Ondratschek
Research interests: Galaxy evolution, stellar halos, Illustris + TNG Simulations

Gergö Popping
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, ISM, dust, sub-mm (line) emission, dust attenuation, semi-analytic modelling

Sebastian Schulz
Research interests: Numerical Astrophysics, Cosmological Simulations, Dust Attenuation, Radiative Transfer

Kiyun Yun
Research interests: Galaxy formation and evolution, Environmental effects, Developing numerical simulations, Dark matter, Evolution of Milky Way, LMC & SMC, Visualization

Lisa-Marie Zessner
Research interests: Stellar halos, IllustrisTNG Simulations

Elad Zinger
Research interests: Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Galaxy Clusters