Dynaverse

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):

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
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
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
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
Bigiel, F., de Looze, I., et int.,Vacca, W. D., SOFIA/FIFI-LS Full- disk [C II] Map- ping and CO-dark Molecular Gas across the Nearby Spiral Galaxy NGC 6946, 2020, ApJ, 903, 30, doi: 10.3847/1538-4357/abb677
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
Bigiel, F., Leroy, et int.,Zschaechner, L., The EMPIRE Sur- vey: 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
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
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
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

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):

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
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
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
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
Santoso, A., Felderer, M., Specification-driven predictive business process monitoring, 2020, Soft. & Sys. Model., 19(6), 1307, doi:10.1007/s10270-019-00761-w
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
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
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
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
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

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)

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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):

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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 Europeaninstrument 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):

Baselmans, J. J. A., Facchin, F., et int., de Visser, P. J., ”Ultra-sensitive THz mi- crowave kinetic inductance detectors for future space telescopes”, A&A 665, (2022) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202243840.
Buijtendorp, B.T., Vollebregt, S., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A., Endo, A., ”Hydro- genated 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.
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.
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.
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.
Ferrari, L., Yurduseven, O., et int., Baselmans, J. J. A, ”Antenna Coupled MKID Perfor- mance Verification at 850 GHz for Large Format Astrophysics Arrays”, IEEE Transactions on Terahertz Science, Technology 8, 127 (2018) DOI: 10.1109/TTHZ.2017.2764378.
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.
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.
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.
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.

Stefan Wesner

Chairman of the Executive Board Deutsches Forschungsnetzes DFN (Vorstandsvorsitzender)
Extended Managing Board Deutsches Forschungsnetz DFN (Mitglied des Verwaltungsrats)
Scientific Chairman Baden-Württemberg Extended LAN (BelW ̈u) from 2013-2022
Research Infrastructure alighment with user demands, procurement and operation (High Performance Computing Systems, Research Data Management Systems)

Selected Publicatiosn (ORCID 0000-0002-7270-7959):

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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):

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<
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Spitler, L. G., Scholz, P., et int., Zhu, W. W., A repeating fast radio burst, Nature, 531, 202–205 (2016) DOI: 10.1038/nature17168

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):

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
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: 10.1051/0004-6361/20234749
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
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
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
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
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
Schober, J., Schleicher, D. R. G., Fet int., Klessen, R. S., Saturation of the turbulent dynamo, Phys. Rev. E, 92, 2 (2015) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.023010
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
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

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, eg 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):

Asvany, O., Schlemmer, S., Rotational action spectroscopy of trapped molecular ions, 2021,Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 23, 26602, doi: 10.1039/D1CP03975J
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Brünken, S., Sipilä, O., et int., Schlemmer, S., An age of at least 1 Myr for a dense cloud core forming Sun-like stars, 2014, Nature, 516, 219, doi: 10.1038/nature13924
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

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):

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
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
Sanchez-Monge, A., Schilke, P., et int., Möller, Th., 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
Möller, T., Endres, C., Schilke, P., eXtended CASA Line Analysis Software Suite (XCLASS), 2017, A&A, 598, A7, doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201527203
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
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
Zernickel, A., Schilke, P., et int.,Moller, 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
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
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
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

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, …)
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):

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
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
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
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
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: 10.3847/1538-3881/152/6/225
Saintonge, A., Catinella, B., Let 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
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
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
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
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

Andrina Nicola

Present, 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):

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.
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
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.
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.
Hadzhiyska, B., García-García, C., 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 (2021) DOI: 10.1088/1475-
7516/2021/09/020.
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
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
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
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
Nicola, A., Refregier, A., Amara, A., “Integrated cosmological probes: Extended analysis”, Phys. Rev. D 95, 083523 (2017) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.083523

Susanne Pfalzner

2023 Scientific Advisory Board, Physics Faculty, University Dortmund, Germany
2021–present Vice-Speaker (–2203) 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 Publicationa (ORCID 0000-0002-5003-4714):

Pfalzner, S., Govind, A., & Portegies Zwart, S. “The perfect encounter: Distinct stellar flyby likely shaped the outer solar system”, Nature Astron. (accepted 2024) DOI: 10.1038/s41550-024-02349-x.
Pfalzner, S., Govind, A.,Close Stellar Flybys Common in Low-mass Clusters”, ApJ 921 (2021) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac19aa
Pfalzner, S., Vincke, K., ”Cradle(s) of the Sun”, ApJ 897 (2020) DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab9533
Pfalzner, S., Bannister, M. T., ”A Hypothesis for the Rapid Formation of Planets”, ApJ 874 (2019) DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ab0fa0
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
Vincke, K., Pfalzner, S. ”Cluster Dynamics Largely Shapes Protoplanetary Disk Sizes”, ApJ, 828 (2016) DOI: 10.3847/0004-637X/828/1/48
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
Pfalzner, S., Kaczmarek, T., ”The expansion of massive young star clusters – observation meets theory”, A&A 559 (2013) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201322134
Pfalzner, S., ”Early evolution of the birth cluster of the solar system”, A&A 549 (2013) DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201218792
Pfalzner, S., ”Universality of young cluster sequences”, A&A 498, L37 (2009) DOI: 10.1051/0004- 6361/200912056

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):

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
Gianniotis, N., Pozo Nunez, 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
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
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
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
Kügler, S. D., Gianniotis, N., Polsterer, K. L., An explorative approach for inspecting Kepler data, 2016, MNRAS, 4399, doi: 10.1093/mnras/stv2604
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
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
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, https://aspbooks.org/ publications/495/081.pdf
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

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 Publication (ORCID 0000-0003-2047-2884):

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Finoguenov, A., Reiprich, T. H., Bo ̈hringer, H., Details of the mass-temperature relation for clusters of galaxies, 2001, A&A, 368, 749, doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20010080

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 and project PI (projects C1, C2, C3, C6) DFG CRC 1601
2022–present: CCAT Observatory Board of Directors, Member
2022–present: German CCAT Science Consortium, Chair
2022–present: Verein f ̈ur 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):

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
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
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
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/aa8cc
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
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
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
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
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
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

Gary Fuller

2019 – present: STFC ESO Committee, member
2013 – current: 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 to 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)

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
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
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
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
Svoboda, B. E., Shirley, Y. L., Tet 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
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
Peretto, N., Fuller, G.A., et int.,Wiliiams, J., SDC13 infrared dark clouds: Longitudinally collapsing filaments?, 2014, A&A, 561, A83, doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201322172
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
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
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

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):

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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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):

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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Kramer, M., Determination of the Geometry of the PSR B1913+16 System by Geodetic Precession, 1998, ApJ, 509, 856, DOI: 10.1086/306535

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):

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
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
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.
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
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
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: 10.1051/0004-6361/20193640
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
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
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
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

Zorah Lähner

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):

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.
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
Roetzer, P., Lähner, Z., & Bernard, F., “Conjugate Product Graphs for Globally Optimal 2D-3D Shape Matching”, CVPR (2023) DOI: 10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.02094.
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.
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.
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.
Eisenberger, M., Lähner, Z., Cremers, D., “Multi-Scale Shape Registration with Functional Maps”, CVPR (2020) DOI: 10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.01228.
Rodolà, E., Lähner, Z., et int., Solomon, J., “Functional Maps Representation on Product Manifolds”, CGF (2019) DOI: 10.1111/cgf.13598.
Lähner, Z., Cremers, D., Tung, T., “DeepWrinkles: Accurate and Realistic Clothing Modeling”, ECCV (2018) DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01225-0 41.
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.

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 Gauss
Centre 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):

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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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

Serena Viti

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 0000-0001-6941-7638):

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.