
Group members
Group leader

Nadine Neumayer
Group Leader
Research interest: Galaxy dynamics, Build-up of galactic nuclei, Census of black holes in low-mass galaxies, Integral-field-spectroscopy, Adaptive optics observations
Postdocs

Anja Feldmeier-Krause
Research interests: K-band spectroscopy, IFU and longslit spectroscopy, Longslit drift scan observations, Stellar kinematics, Dynamical modelling, Stellar populations

Iskren Georgiev
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters, Globular clusters, Ultra compact dwarf galaxies, Imaging and spectroscopic stellar population analysis

Francisco Nogueras-Lara
Research interests: Stellar structure and population of the nuclear bulge of the Milky Way, high angular resolution imaging, near infrared astronomy, extinction curve in the infrared, nuclear stellar discs

Francesca Pinna
Research interests: Integral field spectroscopy, stellar populations, nuclear star clusters, thick disks, built up of galactic structures and their evolution
PhD students

Alina Böcker
Research interests: Build-up of galactic nuclei, Accretion histories of galaxies, Stellar Populations, Chemical evolution, Integral-field-spectroscopy, N-body simulations

Maximilian Häberle
Research interests: astrometric observations, dynamical models of globular clusters, astronomical instrumentation

Maria Selina Nitschai
Research interests: IFU spectroscopy, gas dynamics, Galactic centre, dynamical modelling of the Milky Way
Undergraduate students
Manuel Bayer
Research interests: galaxy formation and evolution, globular cluster systems, globular clusters

Nils Hoyer
Research interests: Analysis of nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, nucleation fraction of galaxies

Natascha Sattler
Research interests: Galaxy evolution across cosmic time, structure and composition of galaxies, galactic centres

Rebekka Schupp
Research interests: nuclear star cluster, black hole, dynamical modelling
Former group members

Mayte Alfaro Cuello
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, Globular clusters, IFU spectroscopy

Robin Herlan
Research interests: Nuclear Star Cluster as probes of Dark Matter halos, Globular Cluster Dynamics

Nikolay Kacharov
Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Dwarf galaxies chemical evolution, Stellar kinematics, Stellar chemical abundances, Spectroscopic observations
Katrin Lehle
Research interests: Dynamical modelling and stellar kinematics in galactic nuclei, active galactic nuclei, Integral-field spectroscopy

Alessandra Mastrobuono-Battisti
Now a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University
Research interests: Globular clusters, Nuclear star clusters, Formation and evolution of dense stellar systems, N-body simulations, Stellar dynamics

Arianna Picotti
Now at the University of Milan
Research interests: Nuclear star clusters in nearby galaxies, dynamical modelling of galactic nuclei, K-band spectroscopy, IFU and longslit spectroscopy

Sofía Rojas
Research interests: galaxy formation from Epoch of Reionization until today, active galactic nuclei, and stellar abundances in nuclear star clusters

Soumya Shreeram
Research interest: Galactic centre, Accretion histories of galaxies, slitless spectroscopy, active galactic nuclei, stellar structure and population near the Galactic centre