Current and past research

GALEV evolutionary synthesis models
Research interests
PhD-project: Galaxy evolution from photometric redshifts
Diploma thesis: Multiwavelength study and optical spectroscopy of X-Ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei
Ongoing projects and collaborations
Research goodies

looking for the pODI pipeline: Discover it here!

GALEV models on the web – www.galev.org

I’m responsibly for operating and maintaining the now official GALEV website that can be found at http://www.galev.org.
From this webpage you can download previously published models and data, and also run your own GALEV model interactively.

Research interests

Galaxy Formation and Evolution from the early universe until today
Stellar Populations in galaxies of different Hubble types and environments
Star Formation and its Feedback processes
Observation and modelling of Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of galaxies and star clusters from
Ultraviolett to Infrared (U through K)
Star Formation in different environments from galaxy mergers to the very outskirts of spiral galaxies
Dust Absorption and Reemission in galaxies along the Hubble sequence, MIR to sub-mm modelling of galaxies
Galaxy Transformation Scenarios in galaxy clusters
Astronomical data processing and reduction, pipelines

Diploma thesis

Subject of my diploma thesis supervised by Prof. Kollatschny was

Multiwavelength study and optical spectroscopy of X-Ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei

Click here for a summary in pdf-format.

Ongoing projects and collaborations

Thorsten Lisker (PI, Uni Heidelberg), Hagen Meyer, and several grad students in the Heidelberg group: Stellar populations in Virgo dwarf and giant galaxies
Jay Gallagher (Univ. Wisconsin, Madison), Uta Fritze (Univ. Hertfordshire)
Star Formation in the extreme outskirts of galaxies
Paul Kotze, Renee Kraan-Korteweg, Patrick Woudt (all Univ. Cape Town, South Africa), Uta Fritze (Univ. Hertfordshire): Galaxy Transformation in clusters

Former projects I was involved in

Hagen Meyer (PI, Uni Heidelberg, Germany), Polychronis Papaderos (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain), Yuri Izotov (Main Astronomical Observatory, Kiev, Ukraine):
The Luminosity-Metallicity Relation for star-forming dwarf galaxies
Barbara Cunow (PI, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa), Hagen Meyer (Uni Heidelberg, Germany), Uta Fritze (Uni. Hertfordshire), Polychronis Papaderos (Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Spain):
Stellar Populations and Dust Extinction in Disk Galaxies

Research Goodies:

Larger Findingcharts for Faint Infrared Standards from Persson et al, 1998 (PDF-File, 1.6MB)
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