Group members

Group members

We working on a wide range of topics, both observational and theoretical (as well as the combination of both).

Group leader
Dr. Glenn van de Ven

Dr. Glenn van de Ven

http://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/~glenn/
Research interest: Dynamical models of galaxies, Globular cluster dynamics, Integral-field spectroscopy, Gravitational lensing

Postdocs
Dr. Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti

Dr. Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti

Research interest: Dynamical evolution of dense stellar systems, globular clusters and nuclear star clusters, N-body simulations, planetary dynamics
Dr. Anna Sippel

Dr. Anna Sippel

Research interest: Direct N-body simulations of star clusters, stellar evolution and dynamics, evolution of the Milky Way
Dr. Ling Zhu

Dr. Ling Zhu

Research interest: Dynamics and dark matter distribution in elliptical galaxies and globular clusters, modelling discrete data with Jeans models, Schwarzschild models and M2M models
Dr. Marie Martig

Dr. Marie Martig

http://mariemartig.weebly.com/
Research interest: Formation and evolution of disk galaxies, disk dynamics, stellar ages and structure of the Milky Way, Cosmological simulations, Schwarzschild models
Dr. Ryan Leaman

Dr. Ryan Leaman

Research interest: Dwarf galaxy evolution, globular clusters as probes of accretion events, semi-analytic models for galaxy assembly

PhD students
Athanasia Tsatsi

Athanasia Tsatsi

Reseach interest: Dynamical structure and evolution of elliptical galaxies, Dynamics and formation of nuclear star clusters
Gigi Leung

Gigi Leung

Research interest: Chemo-dynamical modelling of dwarf and elliptical galaxies
Wilma Trick

Wilma Trick

Research interest: Constraining the gravitational potential of the Milky Way using action-based dynamical modelling
Yulong Zhuang

Yulong Zhuang

Research interest: Chemical evolution of galaxies and stellar populations

Bachelor, Master and Summer students
Alina Boecker

Alina Boecker

Research interest: Star formation history and metallicity enrichment
Sophia Milanov

Sophia Milanov

Research interest: Orbits and actions of globular clusters

Former group members

Dr. Paolo Bianchini (former PhD student, now CITA fellow at McMaster University, Canada)

Dr. Akın Yıldırım (former PhD student and Postdoc, now Postdoc at MPE in Munich)

Adam Wheeler (Summer student at MPIA, Undergraduate student at Ohio State University, USA)

Andrija Kostic (Summer student at MPIA, Undergraduate student at the University of Belgrade, Serbia)

Ruggero de Vita (now a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, Australia)

Remco van den Bosch (at MPIA)

Alex Büdenbender

Chen Fanyao (former MSc student now PhD student at Lund Observatory, Sweden)

Ronald Läsker (Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Turku, Finland)

Laura L. Watkins (STScI, Baltimore)

Mariya Lyubenova (Kapteyn Atronomical Institute, Groningen)

Vesselina Kalinova (University of Alberta, Canada)

Sladjana Knezevic (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)

Robert Singh

Tomislav Grbešić (former BSc student and now MSc student at Freie Universität Berlin)

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