Group members
Group leader
Annalisa Pillepich
Group LeaderResearch interest: Numerical astrophysics, galaxy formation and cosmology
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”