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New Gliese Fellow 2025: Dr. Natalia Lahén

Dr. Natalia Lahén started her new position as Gliese Fellow 2025 at ARI. Her main research interests focus on hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters in a galactic ecosystem. (2025/10/01)

Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung fördert neue Forschungsgruppe am ZAH

Mit seiner neuen Forschungsgruppe verfolgt Dr. Ksoll das Ziel, auf Basis des Maschinellen Lernens Auswertungsalgorithmen für die Erforschung der Sternentstehung zu entwickeln. Die CTS fördert sein Vorhaben mit 1,8 Millionen Euro. (2025/09/23)

LSWs optical systems design for CUBES passed final review

The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES), a future instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), has successfully passed its final design review. LSW is responsible for the design and development of its optical system. (2025/08/08)

New ZAH Director: Ralf Klessen

Since July 1, Prof. Dr. Ralf Klessen (ZAH/ITA) is managing director of ZAH. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss. As deputy director the ZAH board elected Prof. Dr. Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI). (2025/07/01)

New ERC Research Group Leader at ZAH: Max Grönke

Since July 1, 2025, Dr. Max Grönke started as Research Group Leader at ZAH. With his ERC on "Resolving the Multiscale, Multiphase Universe” he plans to connect small-scale plasma physics with the large-scale galaxy ecosystems. (2025/07/01)

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Rubin First Look Watch Party in Heidelberg

First breathtaking images from the Rubin Observatory were presented to the public at the House of Astronomy as part of a worldwide First Look Watch Party initative. ZAH/ARI and MPIA are participating in the project (2025/06/23).

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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

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Astro & Physics Talks

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Guest scientists at ZAH
Next Astro colloquia
Oct 17
11:00		The Evolution of the Gas (and Dust) in Protoplanetary Disks
Paola Pinilla (MSSL/UCL)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Oct 17
11:00		The Evolution of the Gas (and Dust) in Protoplanetary Disks
Paola Pinilla (MSSL/UCL)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Oct 21
16:30		Gobblin' mode: how to form stars, planets and black holes quickly
Daniel Price (Monash University)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS),

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Recent ZAH publications
10/2025
Pietschke, Yannic; Heneka, Caroline et al. (u.a. Schosser, Benedikt)
Direct reconstruction of the Reionization history from 21cm 2D Power Spectra
JCAP 10, 039(2025)

10/2025
Kaminski, A.; Sabotta, S. et al. (u.a. Trifonov, T.; Reffert, S.; Quirrenbach, A.; Kemmer, J.)
The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs: Occurrence rates of Earth-like planets around very low-mass stars (Corrigendum)
A&A 702, C3(2025)

10/2025
Stuber, Sophia K.; Schinnerer, Eva et al. (u.a. Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.)
The SWAN view of dense gas in the Whirlpool: A cloud-scale comparison of N2H+, HCO+, HNC, and HCN emission in M51
A&A 702, A66(2025)

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