Cosmological Simulations & Galaxy Clusters

Professor Klaus Dolag and his group focus on state of the art simulations to gain insights in cosmology and extragalactic astrophysics.

People

Apl. Prof. Dr. Klaus Dolag

Professor

Computational Astrophysics

Dr Frederick Groth

Research Fellow

Member of COMPEX (ERC AdG Dolag); Interests: Turbulence in galaxy clusters, Hydrodynamics, Numerical methods

Dr. Geray Karademir

Research Fellow

Member of SPACE (EuroHPC JU, PI Dolag); Interests: Code development, High Performance Computing, GPUs

Dr. Ildar Khabibullin

Research Fellow

Member of COMPEX (ERC AdG Dolag); Interests: High Energy Astrophysics, Galaxy Clusters, Galactic Center

Dr Tirso Marín Gilabert

Research Fellow

Member of COMPEX (ERC AdG Dolag); Interests: Galaxy clusters, ICM, turbulence, viscosity of the ICM

Dr Stephan Vladutescu-Zopp

Research Fellow

Member of DFG project on ISM/ICM; Interests: X-Ray emission of Galaxies, ISM, WHIM, X-Ray binaries

Dr. Anthony Hartin

Research Fellow

Member of C2PAP; Interests: Non pert. particle physics, collider interactions, Schwinger pair creation, electron/laser interact.

Dr Luca Sala

Research Fellow

Member of C2PAP; Interests: Numerical astrophysicist, supermassive black holes, active galactic nuclei, galaxy formation

Anna Ivleva

PhD student

Member of COMPEX (ERC AdG Dolag); Dissertation on Cosmic Rays and Radio Emission from interacting galaxies, groups, clusters

Benjamin Seidel

PhD Student

Member of the DFG/ANR project LOCALIZATION (PI Dolag); Dissertation on Cosmic flows, Local Universe, Galaxy- and Super-Clusters

Daniel Karner

PhD Student

Member of COMPEX (ERC AdG Dolag); Dissertation on Cosmic Ray modeling in galaxies and galaxy clusters

Giovanni Tedeschi
Giovanni Tedeschi

PhD Student

Member of ORIGINS (Dust Connector); Dissertation on Dust modeling, from proto-planetary discs to galaxy clusters

Johannes Stoiber

PhD Student

Member of ACME (EU Infra, PI Dolag); Dissertation on propagation of Multi Messenger Particles in the Local Universe

Julian Sommer

PhD Student

Dissertation on the observational signature of Axion Quark Nuggets from galaxy clusters

Justo Gonzalez

PhD Student

Dissertation on the effect of AGN feedback and conduction on the transition of cool-core and non-cool-core galaxy clusters

Laura di Federico

PhD Student

Member of SPACE (EuroHPC JU, PI Dolag); Dissertation on improved modeling of the cooling function for galaxy simulations

Lucas Valenzuela

PhD Student

Stipend of the Studienstiftung; Dissertation on the modeling of PNs and Globular Clusters in observations and simulations

Lucas Kimmig

PhD Student

Member of DFG project (PI Dolag); Dissertation on physical effects controlling the evolution of Galaxies in extreme environments

Alexandra Konrad

Master Student

Master thesis on the topic of bar formation and survival in simulated galaxies

Magdalena Stenfors

Master Student

Master thesis on the topic of the Sunyaev Zel'dovich effect and its dependence on the cosmological parameters

Shiori Yang

Master Student

Master thesis on the modeling of AGN feedback in cosmological simulations

Marianna Aiello

Master Student (Erasmus)

Master thesis on the topic of GPU accelerated simulation of cosmic structure formation