Science at MPIA with JWST

Yana Khusanova, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, describes their upcoming research projects with the James Webb Space Telescope. Yana will study galaxies at different epochs of the early universe to explore their formation and evolution.

Laura Kreidberg, Director of the APEx department, describes her upcoming research projects with the James Webb Space Telescope. She will study two rocky exoplanets with potentially different properties.

Thomas Mikal-Evans, research group leader in the APEx department, describes his upcoming research projects with the James Webb Space Telescope. He will study the atmospheric processes of Jupiter's hot WASP-121 b, an exoplanet with two distinct hemispheres exposed to either the central star or cold and dark space.

Masafusa Onoue, a former postdoctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, describes the research he plans to conduct with the James Webb Space Telescope. In particular, he will observe several supermassive black holes and their host galaxies in the early universe.

Alexey Potapov is a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratory Astrophysics Group of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy at Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, Germany. Alexey describes his upcoming research projects with the James Webb Space Telescope. In particular, he will be looking for spectroscopic signatures of water in the dusty disks around young stars. These are the birthplaces of new planets. The results could tell us something about the history of Earth and the origin of its water.

María Claudia Ramírez Tannus, a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, describes her upcoming research projects with the James Webb Space Telescope. She will study protoplanetary disks, disks around stars from which planets will form. In particular, she wants to observe such disks, which are in extreme environments more representative of star-forming regions than anything that has been studied before.

Sofía Rojas Ruiz, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, describes her upcoming research projects with the James Webb Space Telescope. She will observe 11 galaxies in the early universe to study their potential to illuminate and ionize the surrounding matter.