Section Members

Team photo — Team Milky Way 2024
Credit: AIP, Thomas Spikermann

Dr. Roelof de Jong

Section Head

Office: SH/206

Phone: +49 331 7499 648

E-mail: rdejong@aip.de

Structure and content of nearby galaxies including the Milky Way, PI 4MOST high multiplex spectrograph

Scientific Staff

Dr. Cristina Chiappini

Senior Scientist

Office: LH/1-18

Phone: +49 331 7499 454

E-mail: cristina.chiappini@aip.de

Extreme Metal-Poor stars, chemo-dynamical evolution of the Milky Way

Dr. Ivan Minchev

Senior Scientist

Office: LH/1-02

Phone: +49 331 7499 259

E-mail: iminchev@aip.de

Milky Way and galaxy kinematics, chrono-chemo-dynamic simulations and analysis of the Milky Way

Dr. Ralf-Dieter Scholz

Senior Scientist

Office: LH/1-19

Phone: +49 331 7499 336

E-mail: rdscholz@aip.de

Proper motion studies, Solar neighbourhood objects, open clusters

Dr. Katja Weingrill

Senior Scientist

Office: LH/1-17

Phone: +49 331 7499 671

E-mail: kweingrill@aip.de

Gaia spectroscopic pipeline development, solar physics

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Nikolay Kacharov

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-01

Phone: +49 331 7499 301

E-mail: kacharov@aip.de

Stellar populations and stellar dynamics in different environments - from dwarf galaxies to globular clusters and galactic nuclei

Dr. Sergey Khoperskov

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-20

Phone: +49 331 7499 213

E-mail: skhoperskov@aip.de

Dynamics, structure and chemical evolution of Milky Way, N-body/hydrodynamics, MHD

Dr. Genoveva Micheva

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: SH/226

Phone: +49 331 7499 657

E-mail: gmicheva@aip.de

Starbursting and starforming galaxies, HII regions, deep surface photometry, Lyman Continuum escape from galaxies at low and high redshifts

Dr. Bridget Ratcliffe

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/0-16

E-mail: bratcliffe@aip.de

Dynamics and radial migration of stellar populations in the Milky Way

Dr. Weijia Sun

Postdoctoral Researcher

Office: LH/1-02

E-mail: wsun@aip.de

Stellar rotation in star clusters, spectral analysis pipelines, instrumentation software

Doctoral Candidates

Lea Marques

Doctoral Candidate

E-mail: lmarques@aip.de

Milky Way disk dynamics and stellar radial migration

Samir Nepal

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-10

Phone: +49 331 7499 277

E-mail: snepal@aip.de

Spectral analysis through machine learning, convolutional neural networks

Anna Queiroz

Doctoral Candidate

Office: LH/1-01

Phone: +49 331 7499 663

E-mail: aqueiroz@aip.de

Bayesian analyses to determine astrophysical parameters of stars

Students and Assistants

John Paul Bernaldez

Master Student

Office: LH

E-mail: jbernaldez@aip.de

Noel Hofmann

Student Assistant

E-mail: nhofmann@aip.de

Ranjith Mudimadugula

Master Student

Office: LH/1-10

E-mail: rmudimadugula@aip.de

Georg Noffz

Master Student

Office: LH/1-20

E-mail: gnoffz@aip.de

Sreepriya Vijayasree

Master Student

Office: LH/1-10

E-mail: svijayasree@aip.de

Administration

Sonja Sautter

Team Assistant

Office: LH/0-19

Phone: +49 331 7499 266

E-mail: ssautter@aip.de