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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner
University of Cologne
I. Physics Institute
Zülpicher Straße 77
50937 Cologne

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Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee
University of Cologne
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Cologne

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Prof. Dr. Cristiano Porciani
University of Bonn
Argelander-Institute for Astronomy
Auf dem Hügel 71
53121 Bonn

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Michael Hoch
University of Bonn
Regina-Pacis-Weg 3
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Prof. Dr. Serena Viti
  • 2024 – present: Hertz Professor, University of Bonn
  • 2023 – present: Chair of the ESO Science and Technology Committee (STC)
  • 2023: Member of the Selection Committee for an RTDA-MUSA position at the University of Milano Bicocca
  • 2022: Member of the Physical Sciences and Engineering (PE) Panel for the Irish Research Council Laureate Awards (IRCLA)
  • 2021 – 2023: Member of the ESO STC
  • 2021 – 2023: Chair of ESO ESAC
  • 2021 – 2023: Member of ASAC
  • 2021 – 2022: Vice Chair of the ESO Observing Programmes Committee
  • 2020 – 2022: and 2024: Panel member of the VICI funding scheme for the Science Domain (“ENW”) of the Dutch Research Council (NWO)
  • 2019 – 2021: OPC member (Panel Chair) of the ESO committee
  • Chair of the evaluation panel of the ALLEGRO ALMA Center in the Netherlands
  • 2019: Member of the French National Research Agency Scientific Evaluation Committee
  • 2018: Member of the Selection Committee for an RTDB position at the Normale di Pisa
  • 2018 – present: Member of the IAU Membership committee
  • 2016 – 2017: Member of the ESO-Athena Synergy Team (EAST)
  • 2015 – 2018: Member of the ALMA Telescope Allocation Committee (Chair 2017-2018)
  • 2015: Panel Member of the Swedish Research Council
  • 2013 and 2015: Member of the HST Telescope Allocation Committee
  • 2012 – 2018: council member and Secretary of the European Astronomical Society
  • 2012 – 2018: Member of the STFC Astronomy Advisory Panel
  • 2009 – 2014: Member of the UK ALMA Oversight Committee (STFC) (Chair 2011 – 2014)
  • 2009 – 2011: Member of the STFC Gemini TAG (Time Allocation Group)
  • 2008, 2011, 2015: Member of the STFC Post-Doctoral and Advanced Fellowship committee
  • 2005 – 2008: Member of the James Clark Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) Time Allocation Group panel
  • 2005 – 2008: Member of the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) TAG service panel
  • 2004: Member of the RAS Lockyer Fellowship Scheme Committee
  • 2002 – 2005: Royal Astronomical Society councillor
  • 2002: Member of the DiRAC Review panel
  • 2002 – present: Referee for ERC (Marie Curie Actions and ERC Advanced Grant), Referee for ApJ, MNRAS, A&A, Science, Nature, and many European and American grant applications
  • Member of the SKA CRadke of Life Working Group
  • Member of the AI Work Group Faculty of Science
  • Member of the MQAA Astro advisory board
  • Member of the Advisory Board for the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0001-8504-8844):
  1. Butterworth, J., Viti, S., et int., Zhou, D., Molecular isotopologue measurements toward super star clusters and the relation to their ages in NGC 253 with ALCHEMI, A&A, 686, A31 (2024) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202348787
  2. de Mijolla, D., Holdship, J., Viti, S., Heyl, J., Disentangling Multiple Emitting Components in Molecular Observations with Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, ApJ 961, 225 (2024) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ad1681
  3. Heyl, J., Butterworth, J., Viti, S., Understanding molecular abundances in star-forming regions using interpretable machine learning, MNRAS 526, 404 (2023) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2814
  4. Huang, K.-Y., Viti, S., et int., Bouvier, M., Reconstructing the shock history in the CMZ of NGC 253 with ALCHEMI, A&A 675, A151 (2023) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245659
  5. Holdship, J., Mangum, J. G., Viti, S., et int., van der Werf, P., Energizing Star Formation: The Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate in NGC 253 Derived from ALCHEMI Measurements of H3O+ and SO, ApJ 931, 89 (2022) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac6753
  6. Holdship, J., Viti, S., et int., Ilee, J.D., Chemulator: Fast, accurate thermochemistry for dynamical models through emulation, A&A 653, A76 (2021) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202140357
  7. Privon, G. C., et int., Viti, S., et int., Pérez-Torres, M. A., A Hard X-Ray Test of HCN Enhancements As a Tracer of Embedded Black Hole Growth, ApJ 893, 149 (2020) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab8015
  8. de Mijolla, D., Viti, S., et int., Yates, J., Incorporating astrochemistry into molecular line modelling via emulation, A&A 630, A117 (2019) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935973
  9. Jiménez-Serra, I., Viti, S., Holdship, J., The Chemistry of Phosphorus-bearing Molecules under Energetic Phenomena, ApJ, 862, 128 (2018) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aacdf2
  10. Aladro, R., Viti, S., et int., Weiß, A., A λ = 3 mm molecular line survey of NGC 1068 Chemical signatures of an AGN environment, A&A 549, A39 (2013) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201220131
Prof. Dr. Jonathan Pritchard
  • 2023 – present: Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP), Scientific Editor
  • 2017 – 2019: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council SKA Science committee, Chair
  • 2017 – 2018: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council Radio Astronomy Review panel, Member
  • 2015 – 2017: Square Kilometre Array Epoch of Reionization Science Working Group, Chair
  • 2014 – 2017: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council SKA Science committee, Member
  • 2011 – present: Major international conference organisation (including NAM sessions, EAS sessions)
  • 2007 – present: Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, MNRAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics (+Letters), Physics Review D, Manuscript Referee
  • Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
  • Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)
  • Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-4127-5353):
  1. Kamran, M., Ghara, R., et int., Pritchard, J. R., et int., Iliev, I. T., Redshifted 21-cm bispectrum: Impact of the source models on the signal and IGM physics from the Cosmic Dawn, JCAP 11, 001 (2022) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/11/001
  2. Hothi, I., Chapman, E., Pritchard, J., et int., Zaroubi, S., Comparing Foreground Removal Techniques for Recovery of the LOFAR-EoR 21cm Power Spectrum, MNRAS 500, 2264 (2020) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3446
  3. Binnie, T., Pritchard, J. R., Bayesian Model Selection with Future 21cm Observations of The Epoch of Reionisation, MNRAS 487, 1160 (2019) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stz1297
  4. Schmit, C. J., Pritchard, J. R., Emulation of reionization simulations for Bayesian inference of astrophysics parameters using neural networks, MNRAS 475, 1213 (2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx3292
  5. Majumdar, S., Pritchard, J. R., et int., Mellema, G., Quantifying the non-Gaussianity in the EoR 21-cm signal through bispectrum, MNRAS 476, 4007 (2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty535
  6. Pritchard, J. R., Loeb, A., 21 cm cosmology in the 21st century, Reports on Progress in Physics, 75, 086901 (2012) DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/75/8/086901
  7. Lidz A., Furlanetto S. R., et int., Pritchard J. R., Intensity Mapping with Carbon Monoxide Emission Lines and the Redshifted 21 cm Line, ApJ 741, 70 (2011) DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/741/2/70
  8. Pritchard, J.R., & Furlanetto, S. R., 21 cm fluctuations from inhomogeneous X-ray heating before reionization, MNRAS 376, 1680 (2008) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.11519.x
Prof. Dr. Jochem Baselmans
  • 2024 – present: Global Faculty Professor, University of Cologne
  • 2022 – present: Member of the Science Domain list of potential evaluation committee membersfor NWO
  • 2019 – present: Member of the SPIE Millimetre, Submillimetre, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X committee (part of SPIE astronomical telescopes and instrumentation)
  • 2014 – present: Member of the SRON Programme Science Board
  • 2013 – 2015: Detector lead of the FP7 European framework collaboration ’SpaceKIDs’.
  • 2013: Panel Member of the PDR Review board for the Caltech Cornell Atacama Telescope
  • 2013: Member of the Conceptual Design Review board for the detector system for the European instrument SAFARI on the Japanese satellite SPICA
  • 2012 – present: Member of the international Advisory Committee of the Low Temperature Detector conferences
  • 2012 – present: Lead system engineer of DESHIMA and DESHIMA-2, the world’s first on-chipspectrometer for far-infrared astronomy
  • 2012 – present: Lead in the detector development for the AMKID instrument on APEX
  • FYST/CCAT-prime Science Board Member
  • 2022 – present: Member of the Science Domain list of potential evaluation committee members for NWO
  • 2019 – present: Member of the SPIE Millimetre, Submillimetre, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X committee (part of SPIE astronomical telescopes and instrumentation)
  • 2014 – present: Member of the SRON Programme Science Board
  • 2012 – present: Member of the international Advisory Committee of the Low Temperature Detector conferences
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-3385-7305):
  1. Baselmans, J. J. A., Facchin, F., et int., de Visser, P. J., Ultra-sensitive THz microwave kinetic inductance detectors for future space telescopes, A&A 665, (2022) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243840
  2. Buijtendorp, B.T., Vollebregt, S., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A., Endo, A., Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Carbide: A Low-Loss Deposited Dielectric for Microwave to Submillimeter-Wave Superconducting Circuits, Physical Review Applied 18, 064003 (2022) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.064003
  3. Pascual Laguna, A., Karatsu, K., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A., Terahertz Band-Pass Filters for Wideband Superconducting On-Chip Filter-Bank Spectrometers, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science and Technology 11 (2021) DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2021.3095429
  4. Haehnle, S., Yurduseven, O., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A., An Ultrawideband Leaky Lens Antenna for Broadband Spectroscopic Imaging Applications, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 68, 5675 (2020) DOI: 10.1109/TAP.2019.2963563
  5. Endo, A., Karatsu, K., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A., First light demonstration of the integrated superconducting spectrometer, Nature Astronomy 3, 989 (2019) DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0850-8
  6. Ferrari, L., Yurduseven, O., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A, Antenna Coupled MKID Performance Verification at 850 GHz for Large Format Astrophysics Arrays, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science, Technology 8, 127 (2018) DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2017.2764378
  7. Baselmans, J. J. A., Bueno, J., et int., Griffin, M., A kilo-pixel imaging system for future space based far-infrared observatories using microwave kinetic inductance detectors, A&A 601, 203503 (2017) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201629653
  8. de Visser, P. J., Baselmans, J. J. A., et int., Klapwijk, T. M., Fluctuations in the electron system of a superconductor exposed to a photon flux, Nature Communications 5, 3130 (2014) DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4130
  9. Monfardini, A., Swenson, L. J., Baselmans, J. J. A., et int., Schuster, K. F., NIKA: A millimeter-wave kinetic inductance camera, A&A, 521, A29 (2010) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014727
  10. Janssen, R. M. J., Baselmans, J. J. A., et int., Klapwijk, T. M., High optical efficiency and photon noise limited sensitivity of microwave kinetic inductance detectors using phase read-out, Applied Physics Letters 103, 203503 (2013) DOI: 10.1063/1.4829657
Prof. Dr. Stefan Wesner
  • Chairman of the Executive Board Deutsches Forschungsnetzes DFN (Vorstandsvorsitzender)
  • Extended Managing Board Deutsches Forschungsnetz DFN (Mitglied des Verwaltungsrats)
  • 2013–2022: Scientific Chairman Baden-Württemberg Extended LAN (BelWü)
  • Research Infrastructure alighment with user demands, procurement and operation (High Performance Computing Systems, Research Data Management Systems)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-7270-7959):
    1. Volpert S., Erb B., et int., Wesner, S, Domaschka J., A Methodology and Framework to Determine the Isolation Capabilities of Virtualisation Technologies. in Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering 149–160 (Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA) (2023) DOI: 10.1145/3578244.3583728
    2. Sarton J., Zellmann S., et int., Wesner, S, Wald I., State-of-the-art in Large-Scale Volume Visualization Beyond Structured Data. Computer Graphics Forum 42, 491–515 (2023) DOI: 10.1111/cgf.14857
    3. Leznik, M., Lochner, A., Wesner, S., Domaschka, J., The Great GAN Bake Off, An Extensive Systematic Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Network Architectures for Time Series Synthesis, J. Sys. Research, 2(1) (2022) DOI: 10.5070/SR32159045
    4. Tsitsipas, A., Eisenhart, G., Seybold, D., Wesner, S., Scalable Shapeoid Recognition on Multivariate Data Streams with Apache Beam, in K. Arai (ed.) Intelligent Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems), 695 (2022) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-10461-9.48
    5. Seybold, D., Wesner, S., Domaschka, J., King louie: reproducible availability benchmarking of cloud-hosted DBMS, in Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 144 (2020) DOI: 10.1145/3341105.3373968
    6. Hauser, C.B., Wesner, S., Reviewing Cloud Monitoring: Towards Cloud Resource Profiling, in 2018 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 678 (2018) DOI: 10.1109/CLOUD.2018.00093
    7. Nikolov, V., Wesner, S., Eugen, F., & Hauck, F. J., A Hierarchical Scheduling Model for Dynamic Soft-Realtime System, 23 (2017) DOI: 10.4230/LIPICS.ECRTS.2017.7
    8. Östberg, P.-O., Byrne, J., et int., Wesner, S, et int., Domaschka, J., Reliable capacity provisioning for distributed cloud/edge/fog computing applications, in 2017 European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC), 1 (2017) DOI: 10.1109/EuCNC.2017.7980667
    9. Neuer, M., Salk, J., et int., Wesner, S., Motivation and Implementation of a Dynamic Remote Storage System for I/O Demanding HPC Applications, in M. Taufer, B. Mohr, and J.M. Kunkel (eds) High Performance Computing, Cham: Springer International Publishing (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), 616 (2016) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46079-6 42
    10. Rotta, R., Nolte, J., et int., Wesner, S., MyThOS — Scalable OS Design for Extremely Parallel Applications, in Intl IEEE Conferences on Ubiquitous Intelligence Computing, Advanced and Trusted Computing, Scalable Computing and Communications, Cloud and Big Data Computing, Internet of People, and Smart World Congress (UIC/ATC/ScalCom/CBDCom/IoP/SmartWorld), 1165 (2016) DOI: 10.1109/UIC-ATC-ScalCom-CBDCom-IoP-SmartWorld.2016.0179
Dr. Laura Spitler
  • Ongoing: Scientific organising committees for over 10 meetings
  • Ongoing: External PhD thesis examiner
  • Ongoing: Manuscript referee for Science, Nature, Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, and Astronomy & Astrophysics
  • 2024 – present: Time Allocation Committee – National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA
  • 2021 – present: Gravitational Waves and Transients Science Review Panel – National Radio Astronomy Observatory, USA (four semesters)
  • 2021 – present: Work Package leader in PUNCH4NFDI
  • 2019 – present: Transients Science Working Group: Square Kilometer Array (SKA0)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-3775-8291):
    1. Walker, C. R. H., Spitler, L. G., et int., Hummels, C. B., The dispersion measure contributions of the cosmic web, A&A, 683, A71 (2024) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347139
    2. Bethapudi, S., Spitler, L. G., et int., Wharton, R. S., High frequency study of FRB 20180916B using the 100-m Effelsberg radio telescope, MNRAS, 524(3), 3303–3313 (2023) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad2009
    3. Jahns-Schindler, J. N., Spitler, L. G., Walker, C. R. H., Baugh, C. M., How limiting is optical follow-up for fast radio burst applications? Forecasts for radio and optical surveys, MNRAS, 523(4), 5006–5023 (2023) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad1659
    4. Jahns, J. N., Spitler, L. G., et int., Hilmarsson, J. N., The FRB 20121102A November rain in 2018 observed with the Arecibo Telescope. MNRAS, 519(1), 666–687 (2023) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac3446
    5. Hilmarsson, G. H., Michilli, D., Spitler, L. G., et int., Mckinven, R., Rotation Measure Evolution of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst Source FRB 121102, ApJ Letters, 908(1), L10 (2021) DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/abdec0
    6. Hessels, J. W. T. , Spitler, L. G., et int., Tendulkar, S. P., FRB 121102 Bursts Show Complex Time-Frequency Structure, ApJ Letters, 876, L23 (2019) DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab13ae
    7. Caleb, M., Spitler, L. G., & Stappers, B. W., One or several populations of fast radio burst sources?, Nature Astronomy, 2, 839–841 (2018) DOI: 10.1038/s41550-018-0612-z
    8. Spitler, L. G., Herrmann, W., et int., Siemion, A. P. V., Detection of Bursts from FRB 121102 with the Effelsberg 100 m Radio Telescope at 5 GHz and the Role of Scintillation, ApJ, 863, 150 (2018) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad332
    9. Michilli, D., Seymour, A., Hessels, J. W. T., Spitler, L. G., et int., Whitlow, D., An extreme magneto-ionic environment associated with the fast radio burst source FRB 121102, Nature, 553, 182–185 (2018) DOI: 10.1038/nature25149
    10. Spitler, L. G., Scholz, P., et int., Zhu, W. W., A repeating fast radio burst, Nature, 531, 202–205 (2016) DOI: 10.1038/nature17168
Prof. Dr. Jennifer Schober
  • Ongoing: External PhD thesis examiner
  • Ongoing: Manuscript referee for The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy & Astrophysics, Journal of Turbulence, Journal of Plasma Physics, and Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Ongoing: Reviewer for the Polish National Science Center, the French National Research Agency, and the European Research Council
  • Ongoing: ‘Pencil Code’ collaboration, code owner since 2021
  • 2024: One of the two main organisers of the 6-week Bernoulli program ‘Generation, evolution, and observations of cosmological magnetic fields’
  • 2021: Organiser of the Pencil Code User Meeting
  • Member of the Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA/SGAA)
  • Junior member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  • Member of the German Physical Society (DPG)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0001-7888-6671):
    1. Schober, J., Rogachevskii, I., Brandenburg, A., Chiral Anomaly and Dynamos from Inhomogeneous Chemical Potential Fluctuations,  Phys. Rev. Lett., 132, 6 (2024) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.065101
    2. Rappaz, Y., Schober, J., The effect of pressure-anisotropy-driven kinetic instabilities on magnetic field amplification in galaxy clusters, A&A, 683, 35 (2024) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202347497
    3. Schober, J., Sargent, M. T., et int., Schleicher, D. R. G., A model for the infrared-radio correlation of main sequence galaxies at gigahertz frequencies and its variation with redshift and stellar mass, A&A, 679, 47 (2023) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202245218
    4. Schober, J., Rogachevskii, I., & Brandenburg, A., Production of a Chiral Magnetic Anomaly with Emerging Turbulence and Mean-Field Dynamo Action, Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 6 (2022) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.065002
    5. Brandenburg, A., He, Y., Kahniashvili, T., Rheinhardt, M., & Schober, J., Relic Gravitational Waves from the Chiral Magnetic Effect, ApJ, 911, 2 (2021) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abe4d7
    6. Sanati, M., Revaz, Y., Schober, J., et int., Jablonka, P., Constraining the primordial magnetic field with dwarf galaxy simulations, A&A, 643, 54 (2020) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038382
    7. Schober, J., Rogachevskii, I., et int., Kleeorin, N., Laminar and Turbulent Dynamos in Chiral Magnetohydrodynamics. II. Simulations, ApJ, 858, 2 (2018) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aaba75
    8. Schober, J., Schleicher, D. R. G., et int., Klessen, R. S., Saturation of the turbulent dynamo, Phys. Rev. E, 92, 2 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.023010
    9. Schober, J., Schleicher, D. R. G., et int., Banerjee, R., The Small-scale Dynamo and Non-ideal Magnetohydrodynamics in Primordial Star Formation, ApJ, 754, 2 (2012) DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/754/2/99
    10. Schober, J., Schleicher D. R. G., et int., Banerjee, R., Magnetic field amplification by small-scale dynamo action: Dependence on turbulence models and Reynolds and Prandtl numbers, Phys. Rev. E, 85, 2 (2012) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.85.026303

Prof. Dr. Stephan Schlemmer
  • 2022 – present: Managing director of I. Physics Institute, University of Cologne
  • 2022 – present: Chair of the board of directors of the Virtual Atomic and Molecular Data Centre (VAMDC)
  • 2019 – 2022: Head of the Molecular Physics Division of the German Physical Society (DPG)
  • Board member on international collaborative research programs, e.g. GASPARIM (ANR), Astrochem (NWO), Nanocosmos (ERC)
  • 2018 – 2022: Chair of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 956): Conditions and Impact of Star Formation
  • 2016 – present: Head of the DFG funded core facility’ Cologne Centre for THz Spectroscopy’
  • 2014 – 2015: Head of the physics department, Cologne University
  • 2014 – present: German Representative of the EU COST action: ‘Our Astrochemical History’
  • 2011 – 2018: Co-Chair of the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 956)
  • 2009 – present: Board member of the VAMDC data base for Astrophysics
  • 2009 – 2012: Member of EU FP7 Project VAMDC
  • 2008 – 2015: Herschel HIFI Co-Investigator of HEXOS
  • 2007 – 2015: Herschel HIFI Co-Investigator of PRISMAS
  • 2005 – 2009: Member of EU FP6 Project QUASAAR
  • 2005 – 2007 and 2012 – 2015: Head of the Bachelor/Master examination board in physics / Cologne University
  • 2004 – present: Head of the Cologne Data Base for Molecular Spectroscopy (CDMS)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-1421-7281):
  1. Asvany, O., Schlemmer, S., Rotational action spectroscopy of trapped molecular ions, 2021,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 23, 26602, DOI: 10.1039/D1CP03975J
  2. McGuire, B. A., Asvany, O., et int., Schlemmer, S., Laboratory spectroscopy techniques to enable observations of interstellar ion chemistry, 2020, Nat. Rev. Phys., 2, 402, DOI: 10.1038/s42254-020-0198-0
  3. Markus, C. R., Asvany, O., et int., J., Schlemmer, S., Vibrational Excitation Hindering an Ion-Molecule Reaction: The c-C3H2+ -H2 Collision Complex, 2020, Phys. Rev. Lett., 124, 233401, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.233401
  4. Endres, C. P., Caselli, P., Schlemmer, S., State-to-State Rate Coefficients for NH3-NH3 Col- lisions from Pump-Probe Chirped Pulse Experiments, 2019, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2019, 10, 4836, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b01653
  5. Brünken, S., Kluge, L., et int., Schlemmer, S., Rotational state-dependent attachment of He atoms to cold molecular ions: An action spectroscopic scheme for rotational spectroscopy, 2017, J. Mol. Spectrosc., 332, 67, DOI: 10.1016/j.jms.2016.10.018
  6. Schmiedt, H., Jensen, P., Schlemmer, S., Collective Molecular Superrotation: A Model for Extremely Flexible Molecules Applied to Protonated Methane, 2016, Phys. Rev. Lett., 117, Art. No. 223002, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.223002
  7. Asvany, O., Yamada, K. M. T., et int., Schlemmer, S., Experimental Ground State Combination Differences of CH5+, 2015, Science, 347, 1346, DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa3304
  8. Brünken, S., Kluge, L., et int., Schlemmer, S., Laboratory Rotational Spectrum of l- C3H+ and Conformation of its Astronomical Detection, 2014, ApJ Letters, 783, L4, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/783/1/L4
  9. Brünken, S., Sipilä, O., et int., Schlemmer, S., H2D(+) observations give an age of at least one million years for a cloud forming Sun-like stars, 2014, Nature, 516, 219, DOI: 10.1038/nature13924
  10. Jusko, P., Asvany, O., et int., Schlemmer, S., Two photon rotational action spectroscopy of cold OH at 1 ppb accuracy, 2014, Phys. Rev. Lett., 112, 253005, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.253005

Prof. Dr. Peter Schilke
  • 2021 – present: Member of the ESO Users Committee (chair 2023)
  • 2017 – 2022: Member of the BMBF and DLR Gutachterausschüsse Verbundforschung Astrophysik
  • 2014 – 2019: BCGS (Bonn Cologne Graduate School of Physics) Board
  • 2013 – present: Bachelor Examination Board, since 2016 chair
  • 2012 – 2016: ALMA TAC member
  • 2010 – 2011: HOTAC panel member
  • 2005 – 2007: member of Harvard/Smithsonian SMA TAC
  • 2002 – 2008: member of the APEX Board
  • 2001 – 2008: Project Scientist, Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX)
  • 2001 – 2007: ALMA Science Advisory Committee (global)
  • 2001 – 2009: European Science Advisory Committee (for ALMA)
  • 2000 – 2006: IRAM Science Advisory Committee, 2004 – 2006 chair
  • 2000 – 2002: member of HHT executive council
  • 2000 – 2006: member of IRAM Scientific Advisory Committee
  • 1997 – 1999: member of IRAM Program committee
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-2141-5689):
  1. Sewiło, M., Cordiner, M., et int., Schilke, P., et int., Zahorecz, S., ALMA Observations of Molecular Complexity in the Large Magellanic Cloud: The N 105 Star-forming Region, 2022, ApJ931, 102, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac4e8f
  2. Möller, T., Schilke, P., et int., Comito, C., Herschel observations of extraordinary sources: full Herschel/HIFI molecular line survey of Sagittarius B2(M), 2021, A&A, 651, A9, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202040203
  3. Sanchez-Monge, A., Schilke, P., et int., Möller, T., The physical and chemical structure of Sagittarius B2. II. Continuum millimeter emission of Sgr B2(M) and Sgr B2(N) with ALMA, 2017, A&A, 604, A6, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201730426
  4. Möller, T., Endres, C., Schilke, P., eXtended CASA Line Analysis Software Suite (XCLASS), 2017, A&A, 598, A7, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527203
  5. Schmiedeke, A., Schilke, P., et int., Rolffs, R. The physical and chemical structure of Sagittarius B2. I. Three-dimensional thermal dust and free-free continuum modeling on 100 au to 45 pc scales, 2016, A&A, 588, A143, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527311
  6. Schilke, P., Lis, D. C., et int., Comito, C., Ortho/Para Ratio of H2O+ Toward Sagittarius B2(M) Revisited, 2013, J. Phys. Chem. A, 117, 9766, DOI: 10.1021/jp312364c
  7. Zernickel, A., Schilke, P., et int., Möller, T., Molecular line survey of the high-mass star-forming region NGC 6334I with Herschel/HIFI and the Submillimeter Array, 2012, A&A, 546, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201219803
  8. Rolffs, R., Schilke, P., et int., Bisschop, S. E., Structure of evolved cluster-forming regions, 2011, A&A, 527, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015367
  9. Qin, S. L., Schilke, P., et int., Zhang, Q., Submillimeter continuum observations of Sagittarius B2 at subarcsecond spatial resolution, 2011, A&A, 530, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201116928
  10. Comito, C., Schilke, P., et int., Martin-Pintado, J., High-resolution study of a star-forming cluster in the Cepheus A HW2 region, 2007, A&A, 469(1), 207, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20077408
Prof. Dr. Amélie Saintonge
  • 2023 – present: UK Science and Technology Facilities Council Science board, Member
  • 2023 – present: UK Space Agence Science Programme Advisory Committee, Member
  • 2022 – present: Royal Society International Exchanges Committee, Member
  • 2021 – 2023: ASTRONET Roadmap for European Astronomy, Chief Editor
  • 2018 – present: UK ALMA Oversight Committee, Member
  • 2017 – 2022: IRAM Extragalactic Programme Committee, Chair
  • 2017 – 2022: UK STFC Fellowships Panel, Member
  • 2015 – 2020: James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) UK Executive Board, Member
  • 2010 – present: Major international conference organisation (including IAU Symposia, EAS sessions, etc.)
  • 2007 – present: Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, MNRAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics (+Letters), Manuscript Referee
  • 2004 – present: Major collaboration memberships: Arecibo Legacy Fast ALFA Survey (ALFALFA), IRAM Legacy survey of nearby galaxies (xCOLDGASS; co-PI), JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for extragalactic studies (JINGLE; co-PI), Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST)
  • Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)
  • Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  • Scientific member of the Max Planck Society
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-4357-3450):
  1. Saintonge, A & Catinella, B., The cold interstellar medium of galaxies in the local Universe. ARA&A, 60, 319 (2022) DOI: 10.1146/annurev-astro-021022-043545
  2. Roberts-Borsani, G.W., Saintonge, A, The prevalence and properties of cold gas inflows and outflows around galaxies in the local Universe, MNRAS, 482, 4111 (2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2824
  3. Saintonge, A., Wilson, C.D., Xiao, T., et int., Zheng, Z., JINGLE, a JCMT legacy survey of dust and gas for galaxy evolution studies – I. Survey overview and first results, MNRAS, 481, 3497 (2018) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sty2499
  4. Saintonge, A., Catinella, B., et int., Roberts-Borsani, G. W., xCOLD GASS: the complete IRAM-30m legacy survey of molecular gas for galaxy evolution studies, ApJS, 233, 22 (2017) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/aa97e0
  5. Accurso, G., Saintonge, A., et int., Wang, J., Deriving a multivariate αCO conversion function using the [C II]/CO(1-0) ratio and its application to molecular gas scaling relations, MNRAS, 470, 4750 (2017) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx1556
  6. Saintonge, A., Catinella, B., et int., Accurso, G., Molecular and atomic gas along and across the main sequence of star-forming galaxies, MNRAS, 462, 1749 (2016) DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stw1715
  7. Saintonge, A., Lutz, D., et int., Wuyts, S., Validation of the Equilibrium Model for Galaxy Evolution to z ∼ 3 through Molecular Gas and Dust Observations of Lensed Star-forming Galaxies, ApJ, 778, 2 (2013) DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/778/1/2
  8. A. Saintonge, L. J. Tacconi, et int., Wuyts, S., The impact of interactions, bars, bulges, and active galactic nuclei on star formation efficiency in local massive galaxies, ApJ, 758, 73 (2012) DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/758/2/73
  9. Saintonge, A., Kauffmann, G., et int., COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies – II. The non-universality of the molecular gas depletion time-scale, MNRAS, 415, 61 (2011) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18823.x
  10. Saintonge, A., Kauffmann, G., et int., Sievers, A., COLD GASS, an IRAM legacy survey of molecular gas in massive galaxies – I. Relations between H-2, HI, stellar content and structural properties, MNRAS, 415, 32 (2011) DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18677.x
Prof. Dr. Dominik Riechers
  • 2024 – present: GLOW Science Working Group: Short Wavelengths & New Initiatives, Chair
  • 2023 – 2024: Department Director of Physics, University of Cologne
  • 2023 – present: Executive Board member & project PI (projects C1–3, C6) DFG CRC 1601
  • 2022 – present: CCAT Observatory Board of Directors, Member
  • 2022 – present: German CCAT Science Consortium, Chair
  • 2022 – present: Verein für datenintensive Radioastronomie (VdR), WG 1/2 Chair
  • 2022 – present: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Reviewer
  • 2020 – 2021: National Science Foundation (NSF), Reviewer
  • 2019 – present: NRAO Extra Large Proposal Science Advisory Committee (X-SAC), Member
  • 2017 – present: Atacama Large-Aperture Submm/mm Telescope (AtLAST) Science Working Group, Member
  • 2016 – 2021: NRAO Next Generation VLA (ngVLA) Executive Committee, Member
  • 2016 – 2021: NRAO Next Generation VLA (ngVLA) Science Advisory Council, Member
  • 2016 – 2020: SPICA/BLISS Science Working Group, Member
  • 2016 – present: CCAT/FYST Science Working Group: Intensity Mapping, Chair
  • 2016 – present: CCAT/FYST Science Working Group: Galaxy Surveys, Member
  • 2015 – present: JCMT/East Asian Observatory Large Programs, External Reviewer
  • 2015 – 2018: NRAO Time Allocation Committee (TAC), Chair
  • 2015 – 2017: ALMA North American Science Advisory Committee (ANASAC), Member 
  • 2014 – present: NRAO Next Generation VLA (ngVLA) Science Working Group (SWG), Chair: Galaxy Evolution SWG (until 2021)/Member
  • 2014 – 2021: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP), Reviewer
  • 2014 – 2018: NRAO HiZ Science Review Panel (SRP), Chair
  • 2014 – 2015: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), External Proposal Reviewer
  • 2013 – 2017: NRAO User’s Committee, Member
  • 2013 – 2016: CCAT Science Working Group, Member
  • 2013 – 2014: NRAO Director’s AUI Science Working Group, Member
  • 2011 – present: Conference SOC chair or member for 7 international meetings
  • 2011 – 2012: Keck/Palomar Time Allocation Committee, Member
  • 2008 – 2012: CARMA Astronomer on Duty (133 days), Observer
  • 2008 – 2010: CARMA Time Allocation Committee, Member
  • 2008 – present: Nature, Science, Astrophysical Journal (ApJ), ApJ Letters, MNRAS, Astronomy & Astrophysics (+Letters), Manuscript Referee
  • Member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH)
  • Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  • Member of the American Astronomical Society (AAS)
  • Chair/member of University of Cologne Faculty Search Committees; member of IMPRS Bonn/Cologne Admissions Committee
  • Major collaboration memberships: Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS), Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey (HerMES), Herschel-ATLAS, CO Luminosity Density at High Redshift (COLDz)
    Survey (PI; VLA Large Program), ALMA Spectroscopic Survey (ASPECS; ALMA Large Program), ALPINE (ALMA Large Program), REBELS (ALMA Large Program), z-GAL (NOEMA Large Program), Vz-GAL (PI; VLA Large Program), CCAT/FYST (founding member), Simons Observatory, Atacama Cosmology Telescope/ACTPol
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0001-9585-1462):
    1. Riechers, D. A., Weiß, A., et int., Neri, R., Microwave background temperature at a redshift of 6.34 from H2O absorption, 2022, Nature, 602, 59, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04294-5
    2. Riechers, D. A., Boogaard, L. A., et int., van der Werf, P., VLA-ALMA Spectroscopic Survey in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (VLASPECS): Total Cold Gas Masses and CO Line Ratios for z = 2-3 Main-sequence Galaxies, 2020, ApJ, 896, L21, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab9595
    3. Riechers, D. A., Pavesi, R., et int., Wagg, J., COLDz: Shape of the CO Luminosity Function at High Redshift and the Cold Gas History of the Universe, 2019, ApJ, 872, 7, DOI: 10.3847/1538- 4357/aafc27
    4. Riechers, D. A., Leung, T. K. D., et int., Weiss, A., Rise of the Titans: A Dusty, Hyper-luminous “870 μm Riser” Galaxy at z~6, 2017, ApJ, 850, 1, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aa8ccf
    5. Riechers, D. A., Carilli, C. L., et int., Yan, L., ALMA Imaging of Gas and Dust in a Galaxy Protocluster at Redshift 5.3: [C II] Emission in “Typical” Galaxies and Dusty Starbursts ~1 Billion Years after the Big Bang, 2014, ApJ, 796, 84, DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/84
    6. Riechers, D.A., Pope, A., et int., Elbaz, D., Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Mid-Infrared Continuum Emission in a z > 4 Submillimeter Galaxy, 2014, ApJ, 786, 31, DOI:  10.1088/0004-637X/786/1/31
    7. Riechers, D. A., Bradford, C. M., et int., Zmuidzinas, J. A dust-obscured massive maximum- starburst galaxy at a redshift of 6.34, 2013, Nature, 496, 329, DOI: 10.1038/nature12050
    8. Riechers, D. A., Hodge, J., et int., Bertoldi, F., Extended Cold Molecular Gas Reservoirs in z≃3.4 Submillimeter Galaxies, 2011, ApJ, 739, L31, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/739/1/L31
    9. Riechers, D. A., Capak, P. L., et int., Yan, L., A Massive Molecular Gas Reservoir in the z = 5.3 Submillimeter Galaxy AzTEC-3, 2010, ApJ, 720, L131, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/720/2/L131
    10. Riechers, D. A., Walter, F., et int., Menten, K. M., Imaging Atomic and Highly Excited Molecular Gas in a z = 6.42 Quasar Host Galaxy: Copious Fuel for an Eddington-limited Starburst at the End of Cosmic Reionization, 2009, ApJ, 703, 1338, DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/703/2/1338
Prof. Dr. Thomas Reiprich
  • 2024 – present: Co-Speaker of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School (BCGS) for Physics and Astronomy
  • 2022: Chair of hiring committee for a tenure track professorship at the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn
  • 2021 – present: Member Steering Committee of the Transdisciplinary Research Area ‘Building Blocks of Matter and Fundamental Interactions’ at the University of Bonn
  • 2019 – present: Member of the eROSITA-DE Collaboration Coordination Board
  • 2019 – 2023: Lead of the Weak Lensing Work Package of the eROSITA-DE Galaxy Cluster and Cosmology Working Group
  • 2018 – present: Member of the Astronomy Australia Ltd. / eROSITA-DE Management Committee.
  • 2018 – 2020: Managing Director, Argelander Institute for Astronomy (Vice Director 2020 – 2022)
  • 2015 – present: Co-Chair Athena Hot Universe Working Group
  • 2015 – present: Member Athena/WFI Consortium Science Team
  • 2014 – present: Co-Leader External Data Work Package Euclid Galaxy Cluster Science Working Group
  • 2013 – 2018: Member Steering Committee BCGS for Physics and Astronomy (funded by the German Excellence Initiative)
  • 2013 – 2024: Scientific Organising Committee member of 13 conferences
  • 2011 – 2019: Co-Chair eROSITA-DE Galaxy Cluster and Cosmology Working Group
  • Member of the Astronomische Gesellschaft
  • Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
  • Member of the International Astronomical Union
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-2047-2884):
    1. Reiprich, T.H., Veronica, A., A. M., et int., Vardoulaki, E., The Abell 3391/95 galaxy cluster system. A 15 Mpc intergalactic medium emission filament, a warm gas bridge, infalling matter clumps, and (re-)accelerated plasma discovered by combining SRG/eROSITA data with ASKAP/EMU and DECam data, 2021, A&A, 647, A2 , DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202039590
    2. Migkas, K., Schellenberger, G., Reiprich, T. H., et int., Lovisari, L., Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX–T scaling relation, 2020, A&A, 636, 15, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936602
    3. Pratt, G. W., Arnaud, M., et int., Reiprich, T. H., The Galaxy Cluster Mass Scale and Its Impact on Cosmological Constraints from the Cluster Population, 2019, Space Sci. Rev., 215, 25, DOI: 10.1007/s11214-019-0591-0
    4. Lovisari, L., Reiprich, T. H., Schellenberger, G., Scaling properties of a complete X-ray selected galaxy group sample, 2015, A&A, 573, A118, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201423954
    5. Reiprich, T. H., Basu, K., et int., Roncarelli, M., Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters, 2013, Space Sci. Rev., 177, 195, DOI: 10.1007/s11214-013-9983-8
    6. Hudson, D. S., Mittal, R., Reiprich, T. H., et int., Sarazin, C. L., What is a cool-core cluster? A detailed analysis of the cores of the X-ray flux-limited HIFLUGCS cluster sample, 2010, A&A, 513, 37, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912377
    7. Reiprich, T. H., Hudson, D. S., et int., Fujita, Y., Suzaku measurement of Abell 2204’s intracluster gas temperature profile out to 1800 kpc, 2009, A&A, 501, 899, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200810404
    8. Reiprich, T. H., Böhringer, H., The Mass Function of an X-Ray Flux-limited Sample of Galaxy Clusters, 2002, ApJ, 567, 716, DOI: 10.1086/338753
    9. Peterson, J. R., Paerels, F. B. S., et int., Reiprich, T. H., et int., Sakelliou, I., X-ray imaging-spectroscopy of Abell 1835, 2001, A&A, 365, L104, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20000021
    10. Finoguenov, A., Reiprich, T. H., Böhringer, H., Details of the mass-temperature relation for clusters of galaxies, 2001, A&A, 368, 749, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20010080
Prof. Dr. Kai Polsterer
  • Ongoing: Reviewing for A&A, Astronomy and Computing, Annals of Applied Statistics, Advances in Space Research, MNRAS, PASP (Outstanding Reviewer Award IOP Science 2018), as well as IEEE, ACM
  • Ongoing: Scientific organising committee member for multiple conference and workshop per year
  • 2023 – present: Deputy Scientific Director of HITS, becoming Scientific Director in 2025
  • 2023 – present: President of the International Astro-Informatics Association
  • 2020 – 2023: Vice-President of the International Astro-Informatics Association
  • 2018 and 2021: Organiser of Astroinformatics 2018 in Heidelberg and 2021 virtually online
  • 2017 – 2020: Co-Chair of the IT-Infrastructure and Machine Learning section of AKPIK/DPG (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.)
  • 2016 – 2020: Chair of the Knowledge Discovery Interest Group of the IVOA
  • 2012 – present: Co-organiser of the e-science splinter at the Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society
  • 2011 – present: Member of the German Astronomical Society (AG)
  • 2013 – present: Member of the International Astronomical Union (IAU)
  • 2017 – present: Member of the Standing Committee on Science Priorities of the IVOA
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-3435-1912):
  1. Lerch, S., Polsterer, K. L., Convolutional autoencoders for spatially-informed ensemble post-processing, 2022, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2204.05102
  2. Gianniotis, N., Pozo Nuñez, F., Polsterer, K.L., Disentangling the optical AGN and host-galaxy luminosity with a probabilistic flux variation gradient, 2022, A&A, A126, 15, DOI: 10.1051/0004- 6361/202141710
  3. Mostert, R. I. J., Duncan, K. J., et int., Polsterer, K. L., et int., Williams, W. L., Unveiling the rarest morphologies of the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey radio source population with self-organised maps, 2021, A&A, A89, 22, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202038500
  4. Galvin, T. J., Huynh, M. T., et int., Polsterer, K., et int., Heald, G. H., Cataloguing the radio-sky with unsupervised machine learning: a new approach for the SKA era, 2020, MNRAS, 2730, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1890
  5. D’Isanto, A., Polsterer, K. L., Photometric redshift estimation via deep learning. Generalized and pre-classification-less, image based, fully probabilistic redshifts, 2018, A&A, A11, 16, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201731326
  6. Kügler, S. D., Gianniotis, N., Polsterer, K. L., An explorative approach for inspecting Kepler data, 2016, MNRAS, 4399, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2604
  7. Gianniotis, N., Kügler, S. D., et int., Polsterer, K. L., Model-Coupled Autoencoder for Time Series Visualisation, 2016, Neurocomputing, 192, DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2016.01.086
  8. Banfield, J.K., Wong, O.I., et int., Polsterer, K., et int., Whyte, L., Radio Galaxy Zoo: host galaxies and radio morphologies derived from visual inspection, 2015, MNRAS, 2326, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv1688
  9. Polsterer, K. L., Gieseke, F., Igel, C., Automatic Galaxy Classification via Machine Learning Techniques: Parallelized Rotation/Flipping INvariant Kohonen Maps (PINK), 2015, Astronomical Data Analysis Software an Systems XXIV (ADASS XXIV), 495, 81, URL: http://www.aspbooks.org/a/volumes/article_details/?paper_id=37296
  10. Polsterer, K. L., Zinn, P.-C., Gieseke, F., Finding new high-redshift quasars by asking the neighbours, 2013, MNRAS, 428, 226, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sts017

Prof. Dr. Suzanne Pfalzner
  • 2023: Scientific Advisory Board, Physics Faculty, University Dortmund, Germany
  • 2021 – present: Vice-Speaker ( – 2023) and Member of Executive Board of PUNCH4NFDI, Germany
  • 2021 – present: Reviewer for PRACE Computing Time, EU
  • 2021 – present: Coordination Board member, Profilbildung programme of the state of NRW “Big Bang to Big Data”, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
  • 2018 – present: Scientific Expert/reviewer/panel member, La Caissa Foundation, Spain
  • 2017 – 2021: Associate Editor for the journal “Computational Astrophysics and Cosmology”
  • 2016 – present: Guest scientist, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Bonn, Germany
  • 2008 – present: ERC Expert and Panel member for individual Marie-Curie-Stipends, ERA
  • 1995 – present: Associate Professor at University of Cologne
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-5003-4714):
  1. Pfalzner, S., Govind, A., Portegies Zwart, S. The perfect encounter: Distinct stellar flyby likely shaped the outer solar system, Nature Astron. (2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02349-x
  2. Pfalzner, S., Govind, A., Close Stellar Flybys Common in Low-mass Clusters, ApJ 921 (2021) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac19aa
  3. Pfalzner, S., Vincke, K., Cradle(s) of the Sun, ApJ 897 (2020) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9533
  4. Pfalzner, S., Bannister, M. T., A Hypothesis for the Rapid Formation of Planets, ApJ 874 (2019) DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0fa0
  5. Pfalzner, S., Bhandare, A., et int., Lacerda, P., Outer Solar System Possibly Shaped by a Stellar Fly-by, ApJ 863 (2018) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aad23c
  6. Vincke, K., Pfalzner, S. Cluster Dynamics Largely Shapes Protoplanetary Disk Sizes, ApJ, 828 (2016) DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/828/1/48
  7. Pfalzner, S., Steinhausen, M., Menten, K., Short Dissipation Times of Proto-planetary Disks: An Artifact of Selection Effects?, ApJ 793 (2014) DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/793/2/L34
  8. Pfalzner, S., Kaczmarek, T., The expansion of massive young star clusters – observation meets theory, A&A 559 (2013) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322134
  9. Pfalzner, S., Early evolution of the birth cluster of the solar system, A&A 549 (2013) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218792
  10. Pfalzner, S., Universality of young cluster sequences, A&A 498, L37 (2009) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912056

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Andrina Nicola
  • Ongoing: Referee for MNRAS, ApJ, JCAP, Can. J. Phys.
  • 2023 – present: DESC Builder
  • 2023 – present: Member of DESC Publication Board
  • 2023 – present: Member of DESC EDI committee
  • 2023 – present: First convener and chair of the AIfA DEI committee
  • 2023 – present: Mentor for early-career researchers as part of the DESC mentoring program
  • 2023: Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion committee, Department of Physics, Washington, University in St. Louis
  • 2023: Organiser of theory seminar, Department of Physics, WashU
  • 2023: Member of SOC of LSST DESC Collaboration meeting
  • 2022 – 2024: Elected member of the LSST DESC Collaboration Council
  • 2020: Mentor for Princeton women in STEM professional development event, Princeton University
  • 2019 – 2023: Co-convener of the LSST DESC Large Scale Structure WG
  • 2019 – 2022: Organiser of cosmology lunch seminar and HSC group meetings, Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
  • 2015 – 2017: Representative of the institute for astronomy in the association of PhDs and postdoctoral researchers in Physics at ETH Zürich
  • 2018 – present: Member of LSST DESC (Full member since Sep. 2019)
  • 2018 – present: Member of SO
  • 2018 – present: Member of ACT
  • 2018 – 2022: Member of HSC (now continuing collaborator)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-2792-6252):
  1. Reeves, A., Nicola, A., et int., Machado Poletti Valle, L. F., 12x2pt combined probes: pipeline, neutrino mass, and data compression, J. Cosmo. Astropart. Phys. 01, 042 (2024) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/01/042
  2. Nicola, A., Hadzhiyska, B., et int., Zennaro, M., Galaxy bias in the era of LSST: perturbative bias expansions, J. Cosmo. Astropart. Phys. 02, 015 (2024) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2024/02/015
  3. Hadzhiyska, B., et int., Nicola, A., Slosar, A., Hefty enhancement of cosmological constraints from the DES Y1 data using a hybrid effective field theory approach to galaxy bias, J. Cosmo. Astropart. Phys., 09, 020 (2020) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/09/020
  4. Dalal, R., Li, X., Nicola, A., et int., Wang S.-Y., Hyper Suprime-Cam Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear power spectra, Phys. Rev. D 108, 123519 (2023) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.108.123519
  5. Nicola, A., Villaescusa-Navarro, F., et int., Wandelt, B. D., Breaking baryon-cosmology degeneracy with the electron density power spectrum, J. Cosmo. Astropart. Phys. 04, 046 (2022) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2022/04/046
  6. Nicola, A., Garcıa-Garcıa, C., et int., Spergel, D., Cosmic shear power spectra in practice, 2021, J. Cosmo. Astropart. Phys. 03, 067 (2021) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2021/03/067
  7. Nicola, A., Dunkley, J., Spergel, D., Joint cosmology and mass calibration from tSZ cluster counts and cosmic shear, Phys. Rev. D 102, 083505 (2020) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.102.083505
  8. Kapczak, T., Herbel, J., Nicola, A. et int., Weller, J., Monte Carlo Control Loops for cosmic shear cosmology with DES Year 1, Phys. Rev. D 101, 082003 (2020) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.082003
  9. Nicola, A., Alonso, D., et int., Wagoner, E., Tomographic galaxy clustering with the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam first year public data release, J. Cosmo. Astropart. Phys. 03, 044 (2020) DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2020/03/044
  10. Nicola, A., Refregier, A., Amara, A., Integrated cosmological probes: Extended analysis, Phys. Rev. D 95, 083523 (2017) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.083523
Dr. Andreas Lintermann
  • 2024 – present: Council Member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), representing European’s HPC user communities to the EC and EuroHPC
  • 2022 – present: Member: International Scientific Committee of ParCFD; Paper Program Committee of PASC 2023 and 2024
  • 2016 – present: Event organisation: Symposium (JARA-HPC 2016); Minisymposiums, workshops, and break-out sessions (DLR 2016 at JSC, JLESC 2016 and 2018, ECCOMAS CFD 2018, ISC-HPC 2020, COMPSAFE 2020, ISC-HPC 2021, ParCFD 2022, CoE RAISE / EuroCC 2022, ParCFD 2023, ECCOMAS M2P 2023, PASC 2023, PASC 2024); Host of ParCFD 2024
  • 2015 – present: Three projects in the Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC)
  • 2014 – present: Technical and scientific reviewer of (computing time) proposals for the IT Center, RWTH Aachen, the Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich, the GaussCentre for Supercomputing, and the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE)
  • 2010 – present: Reviewer for more than 14 renowned journals, e.g., in Physics, Fluid Mechanics, High-Performance Computing, Computational Methods, or Medicine
  • 2024 – present: Domain Chair Engineering PASC Conference
  • 2022 – present: Member of the International Scientific Committee of ParCFD
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-3321-6599):
  1. Puri, R., Onishi, et int., Lintermann, A., On the choice of physical constraints in artificial neural networks for predicting flow fields, FGC 161, 361 (2024) DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.07.009
  2. Liu, X., R üttgers, M., et int., Lintermann, A., Refining computer tomography data with super-resolution networks to increase the accuracy of respiratory flow simulations, Future Generation Computer Systems, 159, 474 (2024) DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2024.05.020
  3. Rüttgers, M., Waldmann, M., et int., Lintermann, A., Automated surgery planning for an obstructed nose by combining computational fluid dynamics with reinforcement learning, Comp. Bio. & Med. 173, 108383 (2024) DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2024.108383
  4. Aach, E. Inanc, R. et int., Lintermann, A., Large scale performance analysis of distributed deep learning frameworks for convolutional neural networks, J. Big Data, 10(1) , 96 (2023) DOI: 10.1186/s40537-023-00765-w
  5. Rüttgers, M., Waldmann, M., et int., Lintermann, A., A machine-learning-based method for automatizing lattice-Boltzmann simulations of respiratory flows, 2022, Appl. Intell., 52(8), 9080, DOI: 10.1007/s10489-021-02808-2
  6. Lintermann, A.,  Schröder, W., Lattice–Boltzmann simulations for complex geometries on high-performance computers, 2020, CEAS Aero. J., 11(3), 745, DOI: 10.1007/s13272-020-00450-1
  7. Lintermann, A., Meinke, M., Schröder, W., Zonal Flow Solver (ZFS): a highly efficient multi-physics simulation framework, 2020, Int. J. Comp. Fluid Dyn., 34(7–8), 458, DOI: 10.1080/10618562.2020.1742328
  8. Lintermann, A., Pleiter, D., Schröder, W., Performance of ODROID-MC1 for scientific flow problems, 2019, Fut. Gen. Comp. Sys., 95, 149, DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2018.12.059
  9. Lintermann, A., Schröder, W., A Hierarchical Numerical Journey Through the Nasal Cavity: from Nose-Like Models to Real Anatomies, 2019, Flow, Turb. & Comb., 102(1), 89, DOI: 10.1007/s10494-017-9876-0
  10. Lintermann, A., Schlimpert, S., et int., Schröder, W., Massively parallel grid generation on HPC systems, 2014, Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. & Eng., 277, 131, DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2014.04.009
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Zorah Lähner
  • Ongoing: Reviewer for every major conference in computer vision and machine learning (over 20 times in total) and DFG
  • 2024: Program chair of German Conference on Pattern Recognition (GCPR)
  • 2021: Committee for Matteo Dellepiane Award (Best Thesis Award)
  • 2021: Program chair for French-German Machine Learning Symposium
  • 2022 – present: Member of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems)
  • 2023 – present: Member of DAGM (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mustererkennung)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-0599-094X):
  1. Dröge, H., Lähner, Z., et int., Moeller, M., Kissing to Find a Match: Efficient Low-Rank Permutation Representation, NeuRIPS, 36 (2023) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2308.13252
  2. Siddiqi, S., Lähner, Z., A Network Analysis for Correspondence Learning via Linearly-Embedded Functions, GCPR (2023) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-54605-1 7
  3. Roetzer, P., Lähner, Z., Bernard, F., Conjugate Product Graphs for Globally Optimal 2D-3D Shape Matching, CVPR (2023) DOI: 10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.02094
  4. Seelbach Benkner, M., Krahn, M., et int., Lähner, Z., et int., Golyanik, V., QuAnt: Quantum Annealing with Learnt Couplings, ICLR (2023) DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.08114
  5. Gandikota, K. V., Geiping, J., Lähner, Z., et int., Moeller, M., A Simple Strategy to Make Neural Networks Provably Invariant, ACCV (2022) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-26348-4 23
  6. Koestler, L., Grittner, D., et int., Lähner, Z., Intrinsic Neural Fields: Learning Functions on Manifolds, ECCV (2021) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20086-1 36
  7. Eisenberger, M., Lähner, Z., Cremers, D., Smooth Shells: Multi-Scale Shape Registration with Functional Maps, CVPR (2020) DOI: 10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.01228
  8. Rodolà, E., Lähner, Z., et int., Solomon, J., Functional Maps Representation on Product Manifolds, CGF (2019) DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13598
  9. Lähner, Z., Cremers, D., Tung, T., DeepWrinkles: Accurate and Realistic Clothing Modeling, ECCV (2018) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01225-0 41
  10. Lähner, Z., Rodola, E., et int., Cremers, D., Efficient Globally Optimal 2D-to-3D Deformable Shape Matching, CVPR (2016) DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2016.240
Prof. Dr. Lucas Labadie
  • 2020 – 2021: Member of the ESO Observing Program Committee
  • 2020: Feature Editor on Astrophotonics, Applied Optics (OSA)
  • 2019: Topical Team Member for the ESA Voyage-2050 Strategic Plan
  • 2018: Rectorate representative in the selection committees of the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne
  • 2018: Co-Investigator and Local Project Manager of the METIS/ELT project
  • 2018: Team member of the LIFE project
  • 2017: Member of the GRAVITY Science WG on Young Stellar Objects
  • 2017: External Member of the MATISSE Science Team
  • 2016: Member of the Advisory Committee, Bonn Cologne Graduate School (BCGS)
  • 2016: Member of the IMPRS Graduate School selection committee
  • 2016: Member of the “Future of Interferometry” Working Group
  • 2016: Co-Investigator of the DFG-funded NAIR project
  • 2015: Organiser and chair of the VLTI Summer School
  • 2014: Spokesperson of the BMBF-funded ALSI project
  • 2014: Co-organiser of SPIE international conferences (5) and CLEO symposia (2)
  • 2013: Core participant in the “Exploring Habitable Worlds beyond our Solar System”
  • 2013: Member of the Kick-Off Committee for the PFI project
  • 2012: Assessor for international funding agencies (ANR, DFG, NWO, ARC)
  • 2010: Core proposer of the NEAT mission in response to the ESA Cosmic Vision call
  • 2009: Member of the CANARICAM Science Team (CCST)
  • 2008: Reviewer for refereed journals (OSA, Nature, MNRAS, RMAs, IEEE)
  • 2007: Core proposer of the Darwin mission in response to the ESA Cosmic Vision call
  • President of the Science Council of the Jean-Marie Mariotti Center
  • Head of the Master of Physics Examination Board, University of Cologne
  • Member of the Advisory Committee, Bonn Cologne Graduate School (BCGS)
  • Member of the IMPRS Graduate School selection committee
  • Member of the German Astronomical Society
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0001-5342-5713):
  1. GRAVITY Collaboration, Ganci, V., Labadie, L., et int., Woillez, J., The GRAVITY young stellar object survey. VIII. Gas and dust faint inner rings in the hybrid disk of HD141569, 2021, A&A, 655, A112, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141103
  2. GRAVITY Collaboration, Wojtczak, J. A., Labadie, L., et int., Widmann, F., The GRAVITY young stellar object survey. IX. Spatially resolved kinematics of hot hydrogen gas in the star-disk interaction region of T Tauri stars, 2023, A&A, 669, A59, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202244675
  3. GRAVITY Collaboration: Ganci, V., Labadie, L., et int., Woillez, J., The GRAVITY young stellar object survey. VIII. Gas and dust faint inner rings in the hybrid disk of HD141569, A&A 655, A112 (2021) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202141103
  4. Minardi, S., Harris, R. J., Labadie, L., Astrophotonics: astronomy and modern optics, 2021, A&A Rev., 29, 6, DOI: 10.1007/s00159-021-00134-7
  5. GRAVITY Collaboration, Garcia Lopez, et int. Labadie, L., et int., Zins, G., A measure of the size of the magnetospheric accretion region in TW Hydrae, 2020, Nature, 584, 547, DOI: 10.1038/s41586-020-2613-1
  6. GRAVITY Collaboration, Perraut, K., Labadie, L., et int., Yazici, S., “The GRAVITY Young Stellar Object survey. I. Probing the disks of Herbig Ae/Be stars in terrestrial orbits”, 2019, A&A, 632, A53, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936403
  7. Taha, A. S., Labadie, L., et int., Wolf, S., The spatial extent of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons emission in the Herbig star HD 179218, 2018, A&A, 612, A15, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201732008
  8. Tepper, J., Labadie, L., et int., Nolte, S., Integrated optics prototype beam combiner for long baseline interferometry in the L and M bands, 2017, A&A, 602, A66, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201630138
  9. Matter, A., Labadie, L., et int., Lopez, B., Inner disk clearing around the Herbig Ae star HD 139614: Evidence for a planet-induced gap?, 2016, A&A, 586, A11, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201525793
  10. Labadie, L., Rebolo, R., et int., Rodrıguez, L. F., High-contrast optical imaging of companions: the case of the brown dwarf binary HD 130948 BC, 2011, A&A, 526, A144, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201014358
Prof. Dr. Michael Kramer
  • 2023 – present: Section Chair of MPG’s Chemical-Physical-Technical Section
  • 2020 – 2023: President German Astronomical Society
  • 2015 – 2021: Member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC)
  • 2010 – present: Member of the LIGO Oversight Committee
  • 2008 – 2024: Member Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC)
  • 1999 – present: Activity in various commissions and positions: International Scientific Advisory Boards, Appointment Committees, Referee of peer-review journals
  • 1999 – present: Organisation of various schools in physics and astronomy
  • Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society (MPG)
  • Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)
  • Member of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI)
  • Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)
  • Member of the European Physical Society (EPS)
  • Member of the European Astronomical Society (EAS)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-4175-2271):
  1. EPTA Collaboration, incl. Kramer, M., The second data release from the European Pulsar Timing Array. III. Search for gravitational wave signals, A&A 678, 40 (2023) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202346844
  2. Kramer, M., Stairs, I. H., et int., Theureau, G., Strong-Field Gravity Tests with the Double Pulsar, 2021, Phys. Rev. X, 11, 041050, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041050
  3. Desvignes, G., Kramer, M., et int., Stappers, B.W., Radio emission from a pulsar’s magnetic pole revealed by general relativity, 2019, Science, 365, 1013, doi: 10.1126/science.aav7272
  4. Akiyama, K., et int., Kramer, M., et int., Ziurys, Z., First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole, The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration, 2019, ApJ Letters, 875, L1, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0ec7
  5. Antoniadis, J., Freire, P. C. C., et int., Kramer, M., et int., Whelan, D. G., A Massive Pulsar in a Compact Relativistic Binary, 2013, Science, 340, 448, DOI: 10.1126/science.1233232
  6. Lyne A., Hobbs G., Kramer, M., et int., Stappers B., Switched Magnetospheric Regulation of Pulsar Spin-Down, 2010, Science, 329, 408, DOI: 10.1126/science.1186683
  7. Kramer, M., Stairs, I. H., et int., Camilo, F., Tests of General Relativity from Timing the Double Pulsar, 2006, Science, 314, 97, DOI: 10.1126/science.1132305
  8. Kramer, M., Lyne A.G., et int., Lorimer D. R., A periodically active pulsar giving insight into magnetospheric physics, 2006, Science, 312, 549, DOI: 10.1126/science.1124060
  9. Lyne, A. G., Burgay, M., Kramer, M., et int., Freire, P. C. C., A Double-Pulsar System: A Rare Laboratory for Relativistic Gravity and Plasma Physics, 2004, Science, 303, 1153, DOI: 10.1126/science.1094645
  10. Kramer, M., Determination of the Geometry of the PSR B1913+16 System by Geodetic Precession, 1998, ApJ, 509, 856, DOI: 10.1086/306535
Prof. Dr. Gregor Gassner
  • 2023 – present: Vice-dean of finance/personnel of the Math.-Nat.- Faculty, UoC, Germany
  • 2023 – present: Scientific committee of the Int. Conf. on Spectral and High Order Methods
  • 2022 – present: Associate editor of Journal of Computational Physics
  • 2022 – 2023: Head of the Division of Mathematics, UoC, Germany
  • 2019 – 2022: Member of the GAMM program committee (Association of Appl. Math. and Mech.)
  • 2019 – 2023: Mentor (Vertrauensdozent) of the ‘Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes’
  • 2018 – present: Steering committee of a new masters programme ‘Computational Sciences’, UoC
  • 2018 – 2023: Founding member/member of the advisory board of Hypatia, a platform for equality at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
  • 2018 – 2023: Founding member/Vice Director of the Centre for Data and Simulation Science, UoC
  • 2017 – present: Scientific committee of the Sharing Higher-order Advanced Know-how on Finite
    Volume Conference
  • 2016 – 2018: Director of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, UoC, Germany
  • 2015 – 2023: Committee member of strategy and finance at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, UoC, Germany
  • Member of GAMM (Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-1752-1158):
  1. Rueda-Ramirez, A. M., Pazner, W., Gassner, G. J., Subcell limiting strategies for discontinuous Galerkin spectral element methods, Computers & Fluids, 247, (2022) DOI: 10.1016/j.compfluid.2022.105627
  2. Rueda-Ramirez, A. M., Hennemann, S., et int., Gassner, G. J., An entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for the resistive MHD equations. Part II: Subcell finite volume shock capturing, J. Comp. Phys. 444, (2021) DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110580.
  3. Bohm, M., Winters, A. R., Gassner, G. J., et int., Saur, J., An entropy stable nodal discontinuous Galerkin method for the resistive MHD equations. Part I: Theory and Numerical Verification, J. Comp. Phys., 422, 2020, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2018.06.027
  4. Gassner, G. J., Winters, A. R., et int., Kopriva, D. A., The BR1 Scheme is Stable for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations, 2018, J. Sci. Comp., 77(1), 54–200, DOI: 10.1007/s10915-018-0702-1
  5. Flad, D., Gassner, G. J., On the use of kinetic energy preserving DG-schemes for large eddy simulation, 2017, J. Comp. Phys., 350, 782, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.09.004
  6. Gassner, G. J., Winters, A. R., Kopriva, D. A., Split Form Nodal Discontinuous Galerkin Schemes with Summation-By-Parts Property for the Compressible Euler Equations, 2016, J. Comp. Phys., 327, 39, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.09.013
  7. Derigs, D., Winters, A. R., Gassner, G. J., Walch, S., A Novel High-Order, Entropy Stable, 3D AMR MHD Solver with Guaranteed Positive Pressure, 2016, J. Comp. Phys., 317, 223, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2016.04.048
  8. Winters, A. R., and Gassner, G. J., Affordable, Entropy Conserving and Entropy Stable Flux Functions for the Ideal MHD Equations, 2016, J. Comp. Phys.304, 72, DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2015.09.055
  9. Gassner, G. J., A skew-symmetric discontinuous Galerkin spectral element discretization and its relation to SBP-SAT finite difference methods, SIAM J. Sci. Comp., 35: A1233–A1253, 2013, DOI: 10.1137/120890144
  10. Gassner, G. J., Lörcher, F., Munz, C.-D., A discontinuous Galerkin scheme based on a space- time expansion. II. Viscous flow equations in multi dimensions, 2008, J. Sci. Comp., 34(3), 260, DOI: 10.1007/s10915-007-9169-1
Prof. Dr. Gary Fuller
  • 2019 – present: STFC ESO Committee, member
  • 2013 – present: CRC Taylor & Francis, Series in Astronomy & Astrophysics Series, Member of editorial board
  • 2014 – 2016: STFC UK Square Kilometre Array Science Committee, member
  • 2011 – 2014: European Southern Observatory Users Committee, UK representative. (Chair 2013 – 2014)
  • 2008 – present: UK ALMA Regional Centre Node, Manchester, UK. Principal investigator and Lead Scientist.
  • 2004 – 2010: ALMA Subsystem scientist responsible for archive subsystem US National Radio Astronomy Observatory/European Southern Observatory ALMA Science Software Requirements Group
  • 2004 – 2007: Chair UKIRT Management Committee for the PPARC United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii
  • 2003 – 2007: Users Committee, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), USA, member
  • 2002 – 2007: PPARC UK Atacama Large Millimetre Array (ALMA) Science Advisory Committee, member
  • 2002 – 2004: PPARC MERLIN Steering Committee
  • 2002 – 2004: UKIRT Management Board, member
  • 1998 – 2002: UKIRT Time Allocation Group, Chair
  • 1996 – 1998: UKIRT Time Allocation Group, Member
  • Royal Astronomical Society, UK, Fellow
  • Institute of Physics, UK, Member
  • International Astronomical Union, Member
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0001-8509-1818):
  1. Diaz-Rodriguez, A. K., Anglada, G., et int., Fuller, G. A., et int., Rodr ́ıguez, L. F., The Physical Properties of the SVS 13 Protobinary System: Two Circumstellar Disks and a Spiraling Circumbinary Disk in the Making, 2022, ApJ, 930, 91, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3b50
  2. Anderson, M., Peretto, N., et int., Fuller, G. A., et int., Williams, G. M., An ALMA study of hub-filament systems – I. On the clump mass concentration within the most massive cores, 2021, MNRAS, 508, 2964, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab2674
  3. Avison, A., Fuller, G. A., et int., Cunningham, N., Continuity of accretion from clumps to Class 0 high-mass protostars in SDC335, 2021, A&A, 645, A142, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936043
  4. Waterfall C. O. G., Browning P. K., Fuller G. A., et int., Reale F., Predicting the time variation of radio emission from MHD simulations of a flaring T-Tauri star, 2020, MNRAS, 496, 2715, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1681
  5. Svoboda, B. E., Shirley, Y. L., T, et int., Fuller, G. A., et int., Hunter, T., ALMA Observations of Fragmentation, Substructure, and Protostars in High-mass Starless Clump Candidates, 2019, ApJ, 886, 36, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab40ca
  6. Smith, R. J., et int., Fuller, G. A., On the nature of star-forming filaments – II. Subfilaments and velocities, 2016, MNRAS, 455, 3640, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stv2559
  7. Peretto, N., Fuller, G.A., et int., Williams, J., SDC13 infrared dark clouds: Longitudinally collapsing filaments?, 2014, A&A, 561, A83, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322172
  8. Peretto, N., Fuller, G. A., et int.,Molinari, S., Global collapse of molecular clouds as a formation mechanism for the most massive stars, 2013, A&A, 555, A112, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201321318
  9. Caswell, J. L., Fuller, G. A., et int., Cohen, R. J., The 6-GHz methanol multibeam maser catalogue – I. Galactic Centre region, longitudes 345° to 6°, 2010, MNRAS, 404, 1029, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16339.x
  10. Peretto, N., Fuller, G. A., The initial conditions of stellar protocluster formation I. A catalogue of Spitzer dark clouds, 2009, A&A, 505, 405, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200912127
Prof. Dr. Lucie Flek
  • Ongoing: Editor for Frontiers in AI journal
  • Ongoing: Reviewer for Nature Human Behaviour, The ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), Frontiers of AI, AI Communications, Frontiers of Medicine (section AI), PLOS One
  • Ongoing: Advisory committee member of policy makers (EU, DFG, BMBF, Bundestag, Land NRW) in the AI field meetings
  • 2023 – present: Chair of NLP Research Area of the Lamarr Institute for ML and AI
  • 2022 – 2023: Deputy Director of the MCDCI Center for Digital Humanities
  • 2021 – 2023: Board of directors of the Hessian.AI Center
  • 2021 – 2023: Co-Spokesperson of the AI in Biomedicine Center Marburg
  • 2021 – present: Organizer of German-wide Women4Women IT summer school
  • 2020 – present: Area chair or PC for most of the key conferences in my field, such as ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, EACL, AAAI, CoLing, SIGIR, ECML
  • Member of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
  • Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0002-5995-8454):
  1. Trotta, S., Flek, L. & Welch, C., Nearest Neighbor Language Models for Stylistic Controllable Generation. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), 295-305 (2022) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.gem-1.25
  2. Petren Bach Hansen, V., Tejaswi Neerkaje, A., Sawhney, R., Flek, L., Sogaard, A., The impact of differential privacy on group disparity mitigation. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Privacy in Natural Language Processing, 12–22 (2022) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.privatenlp-1.2
  3. Lahnala, A., Welch, C., Neuendorf, B., Flek, L., Mitigating toxic degeneration with empathetic data: Exploring the relationship between toxicity and empathy. Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL-HLT), 4926 – 4938 (2022) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.363
  4. Sawhney, R., Agarwal, S., et int., Flek, L., Towards suicide ideation detection through online conversational context. In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, ACM Press, 1716-1727 (2022) DOI: 10.1145/3477495.3532068
  5. Lahnala, A., Welch, C., Flek, L., CAISA at WASSA 2022: Adapter Tuning for Cross-Domain Empathy Prediction, In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment & Social Media Analysis, 280-285 (2022) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2022.wassa-1.31
  6. Sawhney, R., Neerkaje, A. T., Habernal, I., Flek, L., How much user context do we need? Privacy by design in mental health NLP application. Proceedings of the Seventeenth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media – ICWSM 2023, 766-776 (2022) DOI: 10.1609/icwsm.v17i1.22186
  7. Yang, D. Flek, L., Towards User-centric Text-to-Text Generation: A Survey. In: Text, Speech, and Dialogue: 24th International Conference, TSD 2021, Proceedings 24. Springer International Publishing, 3-22 (2021) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-83527-9_1
  8. Sawhney, R., Thakkar, M., et int., Flek, L., HypMix: Hyperbolic interpolative data augmentation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 9858-9868 (2021) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.776
  9. Plepi, J., Flek, L., Perceived and intended sarcasm detection with graph attention networks. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, 4746-4753 (2021) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.408
  10. Flek, L., Returning the N to NLP: Towards Contextually Personalized Classification Models, In: Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), vol. 1, 7828-7838 (2020) DOI: 10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.700
Prof. Dr. Michael Felderer
  • 2020: General Chair, German Software Engineering Conference (SE 2020)
  • 2020: Program Chair, International Conference on Technical Debt 2020 (TechDebt 2020)
  • 2019: Industry Track Chair, 27th ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE 2019)
  • 2017: General Chair, 18th International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES 2017)
  • 2017: Workshop Chair, Modellierung 2017
  • 2017: Program Chair, 43rd Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2017)
  • 2015 – 2022: Six keynotes (AST 2022, NLPaSE 2020, SWQD 2020, ASQT 2019, FDSE 2018, SECTEST 2015)
  • Special Issue Editor, Recent Trends in Engineering Software-Intensive Systems, Journal of Systems and Software, Elsevier
  • Special Issue Editor, Soft Computing for Engineering Data-driven and AI-enabled Software Systems, Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier
  • 2019 – present: Editorial Board Member, Journal of Information and Software Technology (IST), Elsevier
  • 2015 – present: Editorial Board Member, International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT), Springer
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-3818-4442):
  1. Foidl, H., Felderer, M., An Approach for Assessing Industrial IoT Data Sources to Determine their Data Trustworthiness, 2023, Internet of Things, 100735, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.iot.2023.100735
  2. Kuhrmann, M., Tell, P., et int., Felderer, M., et int., Richardson, I., What Makes Agile Software Development Agile, 2022, IEEE Trans. on Soft. Eng., 48(9), 3523, DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2021.3099532
  3. Foidl, H., Felderer, M., Ramler, R., Data Smells: Categories, Causes and Consequences, and Detection of Suspicious Data in AI-based Systems 2022, CAIN2022: 1st International Conference on AI Engineering, 229, DOI: 10.1145/3522664.3528590
  4. Jambigi, N., Bach, T., Schabernack, F., Felderer, M., Automatic Error Classification and Root Cause Determination while Replaying Recorded Workload Data at SAP HANA, 2022, ICST2022: 15th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation, 323, DOI: 10.1109/ICST53961.2022.00041
  5. Santoso, A., Felderer, M., Specification-driven predictive business process monitoring, 2020, Soft. & Sys. Model., 19(6), 1307, DOI: 10.1007/s10270-019-00761-w
  6. Sauerwein, C., Pekaric, I., Felderer, M., Breu, R., An analysis and classification of public information security data sources used in research and practice. 2019, Comput. Secur., 82, 140, DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2018.12.011
  7. Wagner, S., Mendez Fernandez, D., Felderer, M., et int., Winkler, D., 2019, Status Quo in Requirements Engineering: A Theory and a Global Family of Surveys, ACM Trans. Soft. Eng. & Metho., 28(2), 9:1, DOI: 10.1145/3306607
  8. Häser, F., Felderer, M., Breu, R., Is Business Domain Language Support Beneficial for Creating Test Case Specifications: A Controlled Experiment, 2016, Inf. & Sof. Tech., 79, 52, DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2016.07.001
  9. Felderer, M., Zech, P., et int., Pretschner, A., Model-based security testing: a taxonomy and systematic classification, 2016, Soft. Test. Verif. & Reliab., 26(2), 119, DOI: 10.1002/stvr.1580
  10. Felderer, M., Ramler, R., A multiple case study on risk-based testing in industry, 2014, Int. J. Soft. Tools Tech. Transf., 16(5), 609, DOI: 10.1007/s10009-014-0328-z
Prof. Dr. Frank Bigiel
  • 2023 – present: Deputy spokesperson of DFG CRC 1601 on the “habitats of massive stars across cosmic time”
  • 2023 – present: PI of CRC 1601 project B3
  • 2021 – present: Deputy managing director Argelander Institute for Astronomy
  • 2008 – present: Referee for scientific journals (NATURE, NATURE Astronomy, Science, ApJ, AJ, MNRAS, A&A)
  • 2012 – present: Referee for international funding organizations (DFG), German-Israeli Foundation
    for Scientific Research and Development, FWF (Austria), MIUR (Italy), NSF (USA), ERC/EU for various programmes)
  • 2011 – present: TAC member or proposal referee (JWST, HST, SOFIA, CARMA, JCMT, GMRT, CFHT, ESO OPC)
  • 2023 – present: Member BCGS mentoring program
  • 2022 – present: Deputy member examination board physics department
  • 2022 – present: Board member ‘International-Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Astronomy and Astrophysics’
  • 2018 – 2022: Member SOFIA FIFI-LS Science Team
  • 2018 – present: Member CCAT-prime consortium (Science Working Group lead ‘Nearby Galaxies’)
  • 2014 – present: Member of major international collaborations, including PHANGS (ALMA, VLT,  HST and JWST Large/ Legacy programs), EMPIRE (PI, IRAM Large Program), MHONGOOSE (MeerKAT Large Program), WALLABY (ASKAP, Large Program), SWAN (co-PI, IRAM NOEMA Large Program)
Selected Publications (ORCID 0000-0003-0166-9745):
  1. Neumann, L., Gallagher, M. J., Bigiel, F., et int., Williams, T. G., The ALMOND Survey: Molecular cloud properties and gas density tracers across 25 nearby spiral galaxies with ALMA, 2023, MNRAS, 521, 3348, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stad424
  2. den Brok, J. S., Bigiel, F., et int., Wilner, D., A., A CO isotopologue Line Atlas within the Whirlpool galaxy Survey (CLAWS), 2022, A&A, 662, 89, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142247
  3. Eibensteiner, C., Barnes, A. T., Bigiel, F., et int., Williams, T. G., A 2-3 mm high-resolution molecular line survey towards the centre of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 6946, 2022, A&A, 659, 173, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202142624
  4. den Brok, J. S., Chatzigiannakis, D., Bigiel, F., et int., Stuber, S., New constraints on the 12CO(2-1)/(1-0) line ratio across nearby disc galaxies, 2021, MNRAS, 504, 3221, DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stab859
  5. Bigiel, F., de Looze, I., et int., Vacca, W. D., SOFIA/FIFI-LS Full- disk [C II] Mapping and CO-dark Molecular Gas across the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946, 2020, ApJ, 903, 30, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb677
  6. Jimenez-Donaire, M. J., Bigiel, F., et int., Walter, F., EMPIRE: The IRAM 30 m Dense Gas Survey of Nearby Galaxies, 2017, ApJ, 880, 127, DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab2b95
  7. Bigiel, F., Leroy, et int., Zschaechner, L., The EMPIRE Survey: Systematic Variations in the Dense Gas Fraction and Star Formation Efficiency from Full-disk Mapping of M51, 2016, ApJ Letters, 822, 26, DOI: 10.3847/2041-8205/822/2/L26
  8. Bigiel, F., Blitz, L., A Universal Neutral Gas Profile for nearby Disk Galaxies, 2012, ApJ, 756, 183, DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/756/2/183
  9. Bigiel, F., et int., Wiesemeyer, H. W., A Constant Molecular Gas Depletion Time in Nearby Disk Galaxies, 2011, ApJ Letters, 730, 13, DOI: 10.1088/2041-8205/730/2/L13
  10. Bigiel, F., Leroy, A., et int., Thornley, M. D., The Star Formation Law in Nearby Galaxies on Sub-kpc Scales, 2008, AJ, 136, 2846, DOI: 10.1088/0004-6256/136/6/2846