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Prof. Dr. Maria-Rosa Cioni

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I am an observational astronomer and professor of stellar populations. My main research interest is on the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies, in particular of the Magellanic Clouds which are the largest and most massive satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.

I am the principal investigator of the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC), a public survey project of ESO. I am also leading the One Thousand and One Magellanic Cloud Fields (1001MC) survey within the 4MOST consortium.

Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Section Head
Office: LH/1-11
Phone: +49 331 7499 651
mcioninothing@aip.de

Leibniz-Institut
für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam

I graduated in astronomy from the University of Bologna in 1996 and obtained a PhD in astronomy at the Leiden Observatory in 2001 with a thesis on AGB stars and other red giants in the Magellanic Clouds. I was an ESO fellow in Garching until 2005, a lecturer at the Institute for Astronomy in Edinburgh until 2007, and then a senior lecturer and reader at the University of Hertfordshire. I returned to Germany in 2010 with a Humboldt Fellowship followed by a DAAD visiting professorship. In 2016 I received an ERC consolidator grant to support my research group and since 2017 I am a joint professor between the AIP and the University of Potsdam.

Publications

Publications at NASA ADS: ADS library

Latest refereed publications, retrieved from NASA ADS:

The SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): Scientific Motivation and Project Overview
Drory, N., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2024
The Astronomical Journal, 168, 5, 198; published November 2024
doi:10.3847/1538-3881/ad6de9, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The YMCA (Yes, Magellanic Clouds Again) survey: Probing the outer regions of the Magellanic system with VST
Gatto, M., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 690, A164; published October 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450642, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Revealing the chemical structure of the Magellanic Clouds with APOGEE. I. Calculating individual stellar ages of RGB stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Povick, J. T., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 533, 3, 3685; published September 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1949, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters: I. Catalogues and results for NGC 1850
Niederhofer, F., ... Kacharov, N., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 689, A162; published September 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202450255, NASA ADS
UVIT Study of the MAgellanic Clouds (U-SMAC) - I. Recent star formation history and kinematics of the Shell region in the north-eastern Small Magellanic Cloud
Hota, S., Subramaniam, A., Dhanush, S. R., Cioni, M.-R. L., Subramanian, S., 2024
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 532, 1, 322; published July 2024
doi:10.1093/mnras/stae1438, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
New quasars behind the Magellanic Clouds. II. Spectroscopic confirmation of 136 near-infrared selected candidates
Ivanov, V. D., Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 687, A16; published July 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202346504, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The VMC survey. L. Type II Cepheids in the Magellanic Clouds: Period-luminosity relations in the near-infrared bands
Sicignano, T., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., ... Storm, J., ..., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 685, A41; published May 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202348650, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
The bar pattern speed of the Large Magellanic Cloud
Jiménez-Arranz, Ó., ... Cioni, M.-R. L., 2024
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 683, A102; published March 2024
doi:10.1051/0004-6361/202347266, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo
Kinematics of stellar substructures in the small magellanic cloud
El Youssoufi, D., Cioni, M.-R. L., Kacharov, N., Bell, C. P. M., Matjević, G., ..., 2023
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 523, 1, 347; published July 2023
doi:10.1093/mnras/stad1339, NASA ADS
The intrinsic reddening of the Magellanic Clouds as traced by background galaxies - III. The Large Magellanic Cloud
Bell, C. P. M., Cioni, M.-R. L., ..., 2022
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 516, 1, 824; published October 2022
doi:10.1093/mnras/stac1545, NASA ADS
Participating AIP sections and groups: Dwarf Galaxies and the Galactic Halo