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