Program participants

Program participants

 

Participants from MPA and local institutions

 

Name: Selma de Mink Title / Afilliation: Director, MPA Garching
Research Interests: Lives, deaths and afterlives of Massive Stars Website
 
Name: Stephen Justham Title / Afilliation: Scientific Staff, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Stellar Interactions, Compact Binaries, Transients + Supernovae Website
 
Name: Achim Weiss Title / Afilliation: Scientific Staff, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Theory of stellar structure and evolution Website
 
Name: Thorsten Naab Title / Afilliation: Scientific Staff, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Cosmological galaxy formation and evolution Website
 
Name: Ruediger Pakmor Title / Afilliation: Scientific Staff, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Computational astrophysics, numerical methods Website
 
Name: Martyna Chruslinska Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Gravitational wave astrophysics, chemical evolution of the Universe Website
 
Name: Taeho Ryu Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Stellar Astrophysics Website
 
Name: Holly Preece Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Multiple Star Systems Website
 
Name: Tiara Battich Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Evolution, nucleosynthesis and pulsations of low-mass stars. Website
 
Name: Valeriya Korol Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Compact binary systems. Website
 
Name: Deepika Bollimpalli Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests: Accretion disks around compact objects Website
 
Name: Earl Bellinger Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests:Asteroseismology, stellar evolution, machine learning. Website
 
Name: Alejandro Vigna-Gomez Title / Afilliation: Research Fellow, MPA Garching
Research Interests: Luminous transients and gravitational-wave sources. Website

 

Principal Lecturers and SOC members

 

Name: Jim Fuller Title / Afilliation: Assistant Professor, Caltech
Research Interests: Stellar structure and evolution, planets, exoplanets, asteroseismology, binary stars, and supernovae. Website
 
Name: Shazrene Mohamed Title / Afilliation: Associate Professor, University of Miami
Research Interests: Binary star interactions, stellar wind interactions and explosions Website
 
Name: Paul Ricker Title / Afilliation: Professor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, binary stars, and supernovae. Website
 

 

Other program participants

 

Name: Carlos Badenes Title / Afilliation: Associate Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Research Interests: Stellar structure and evolution, and supernovae. Website
 
Name: Stefanie Walch-Gassner Title / Afilliation: Full Professor, University of Cologne
Research Interests: Computational astrophysics, star formation. Website
 
Name: Ylva Gottberg Title / Afilliation:  NASA Hubble postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Observatories
Research Interests: Binary stellar evolution Website
 
Name: Mathieu Renzo Title / Afilliation: Research fellow, CCA, Flatiron Institute
Research Interests: Massive stars, binary evolution, and stellar explosions Website
 
Name: Evan Bauer Title / Afilliation: Harvard CfA (CfA Postdoctoral Fellow)
Research Interests: Stellar astrophysics, especially white dwarfs, hot subdwarfs, and interactions between stars in binaries Website
 
Name: Ilaria Caiazzo Title / Afilliation: Burke-Sherman Fairchild Prize Fellow, CalTech
Research Interests: Theoretical stellar astrophysics Website
 
Name: Alessandro Alberto Trani Title / Afilliation:Postdoctoral Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Research Interests: Collisional self-gravitating systems Website
 
Name: Jorge Cuadra Title / Afilliation:Full professor, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile
Research Interests: Numerical simulations of the Galactic Centre, planet formation, and other accreting systems. Website
 
Name: Felix Ahlborn Title / Afilliation:Postdoctoral fellow, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies
Research Interests: Stellar modelling and asteroseismology Website
 
Name: Santiago Torres Title / Afilliation:Postdoctoral fellow, UCLA
Research Interests: Gravitational dynamics Website
 
Name: Norbert Langer Title / Afilliation:Full professor, University of Bonn
Research Interests: Evolution of single and interacting stars. Website
 
Name: Alison Sills Title / Afilliation:Full professor, McMaster University
Research Interests: Stars and stellar interactions in dense stellar systems Website
 
Name: Katelyn Breivik Title / Afilliation:Assistant Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University
Research Interests: Interacting binary stars Website
 
Name: Wolfgang Kerzendorf Title / Afilliation:Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Research Interests: Astrophysics and machine learning, including supernovae and radiative transfer. Website
 
Name:Christopher Tiede Title / Afilliation:Postdoctoral Fellow, Niels Bohr Institute
Research Interests: HPC, binary interactions Website
 
Name:Alex Heger Title / Afilliation:Professor, Monash University
Research Interests: Massive star evolution, stellar remnants Website