Escaping German winter – with a 3-week work-travel to Madrid, Spain!

Germany in winter is cold, dark, rainy … and do you remember sunshine? – Not much of that in Germany in December. That’s why I was very happy to have the opportunity for a three-week visit to the Observatory Astronomico National in Madrid in Spain! During these (still ongoing) days, I already had the chance …

Outreach talk: (Meine) Astronomie am Nachmittag

Am 08. November 2023 hatte ich die Ehre meine Forschungsarbeit im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe “Astronomie am Nachmittag” des Freundeskreis des Planetarium Mannheim vorstellen zu dürfen. Nachdem ich meine Forschung zur Sternentstehung in nahen Galaxien präsentierte, hatte ich viel Freude an spannenden Fragen aus dem astronomie-begeisterten Publikum. Herzlichen Dank an den Freundeskreis für diese Einladung! Last …

MPIA Open day – Don’t miss my talk (14. October 2023)

The MPIA Open day finally takes place this saturday after several years of delay. There will be a dedicated series of talks (you can find the schedule here), including my (German) talk at 10:30 on star formation in nearby galaxies. Der MPIA Tag der offenen Türe findet diesen Samstag (14. Oktober) nach einigen Jahren endlich …

PHANGS Team on YouTube – we dropped our 2nd video

I had the honor to create the second video of the PHANGS team YouTube channel – the first talk of a series of talks based on recent publications from the PHANGS collaborations. Recording and editing done mostly by me with very limited resources (namely an iphone camera and davinvi resolve software). If you are interested …

My figure made it on the A&A cover (volume 676)

Ein Bild meiner letzten Publikation hat es auf das Titelbild der Ausgabe 676 des Journals “Astronomy & Astrophysics” geschafft! Hier könnt ihr es finden. One of my plot from my recent publication made it on the cover of the 676th volume of A&A! You can find it here.

Galactic Bars conference

This July, I attended a conference on stellar dynamics and stellar bars in galaxies. I was able to present my recently published work on Morphological features in PHANGS based on molecular gas and you can even find the presentation slides online in zenodo. The conference took place in Granada in Spain, close to the Alhambra …