Group members

Group members

Group leader

Annalisa Pillepich

Annalisa Pillepich

Group Leader
ADS Papers
Academic path: Universita' di Pisa (bachelor & Master in Physics), ETH Zurich (PhD), UCSC (postdoc), Harvard University (postdoc)

Research interest: Numerical astrophysics, galaxy formation and cosmology

Postdocs

PhD students

Undergrad Students (Master and Bachelor)

Shera Jafaritabar: “The merger history of massive galaxy clusters from their X-ray and radio maps”

Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan: “Effects of SMBH feedback in a multi-phase cold ISM”

Ainhoa Zubiaur Arsuaga: “eROSITA-like bubbles with different SMBH feedback models? ”

Maitri Purohit: “Cosmological parameters from galaxy cluster counts”

Former Group Members: Postdocs

Dr. Urmila (Mila) Chadayammuri (2023-2024), now astronomy editor at Nature  website

Dr. Matthew C Smith (2021-2023), now postdoc fellow at MPA Garching website

Dr. Nhut Truong (2020-2023), now assistant research scientist at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Dr. Joe Lewis (2020-2023), now postdoc at the Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris

Dr. Martina Donnari (2018-2021), now in teaching

Dr. Gandhali Joshi (2017-2021), now postdoc at University College London

Dr. Elaz Zinger (2017-2020), now at Researcher at Hebrew University

Dr. Allison Merritt (2017-2021, MPIA fellow), now in industry

Dr. Maxim Trebitsch (2019-2021, STRUCTURES postdoc), now postdoc at the University of Groningen

Dr. Gergo Popping (2017-2019, MPIA fellow), now staff at ESO -- ADS Papers and webpage

Dr. Mark Lovell (2016-2017), now postdoc at the University of Iceland

Former Group Members: PhD students

Eric Rohr (2020-2024), now STRUCTURES postdoc at Heidelberg University and MPIA: “Jellyfish Galaxies and the Multiphase Nature of Gas Around Galaxies”

Lukas Eisert (2020-2024), now Research Associate, LSST at SLAC, Stanford and Rubin Observing Specialist: “Inferring the assembly and merger histories of galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations and machine learning”

Diego Sotillo Ramos (2019-2024): “Milky Way and M31 analogues: insights from the cosmological simulation TNG50”

Chris Engler (2018-2022), now in industry: “Populations of satellite galaxies with the IllustrisTNG simulations”

Kiyun Yun (2016-2020): “Galaxy Evolution in Groups and Clusters with computer simulations”

Former Group Members: Master students and long-term interns

2025 Maulik Parekh: “The Gas Fraction of Mock-Observed Galaxy Groups with Cosmological Simulations”

2024 Shalini Kurinchi-Vendhan (Fulbright): “Jellyfish galaxies with IllustrisTNG and their SMBH activity”

2024 Florian Lacroix (with Anna de Graaff): “Mock kinematics of TNG50 galaxies for observations with JWST/NIRSpec”

2024 FlorianDedieu: “Perpendicular or tilted? On the inclination of eROSITA-like CGM bubbles”

2024 Shravani Pandit: “Physical properties of the intra-group medium with TNG50“

2023 Noa Hoffmann: “Characterizing and Mocking the Stellar Halos of TNG50 Milky Way and Andromeda-like Galaxies”

2022 Martin Fournier: “Properties of the Magellanic Cloud Analogs in TNG50” (Simulation Videos)

2022 Nikhil Bisht: “Radial Migration of Stars of Milky Way/M31 analogs in the TNG50 Simulation”

2021 Junia Goeller: “The Star Formation Properties of Jellyfish Galaxies in TNG50”   (paper)

2019 Lukas Eisert: “From the morphologies of stellar haloes to the assembly histories of galaxies" (paper)

2018 Sebastian Schulz :“The IRX - beta dust attenuation relation: Insights from IllustrisTNG” (paper)

2018 Moritz Fischer:“How different are in-situ and ex-situ stellar population properties?” (webpage)

Former Group Members: Bachelor students and short-term interns

2024 LokeshManickavasaham: “Evolution Across Cosmic Times of the Most Massive Clusters”

2024 Archis Mukhopadhyay (DAAD-WISE): “The magnetic fields of jellyfish galaxies in IllustrisTNG”

2022 Maria Renee Meza (MPIA summer intern): “The star formation histories of Milky Way-like galaxies in the TNG100 simulation: The bar-SMBH connection”

2020 Kaj Kramer: “The alpha abundances of satellite and halo stars in TNG50 MW/M31-like galaxies”

2020 Rahul Ramesh (DAAD-WISE): “The stellar mass assembly of galaxies at the centers of groups and clusters” (webpage)

2018 Lisa-Marie Zessner (now PhD student at MPS): “Stellar metallicity Gradients in IllustrisTNG Stellar Halos”

2018 Patrick Ondratschek (now PhD student at MPS): “The stellar density profiles of IllustrisTNG stellar haloes”

2017 Luis Hellmich (summer intern): “Effects of baryons on the subhalo mass function”

2017 Max Sasserath (with Hans-Walter Rix): “Predicted satellite galaxy abundance around the Milky Way in hydrodynamical simulations”

 

 

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