Theoretical and computational plasma (astro)physics

Helmholtz-Exzellenznetzwerk „Munich Center for Plasma Astrophysics“

In our laboratory we try to understand how non-equilibrium physics could have been beneficial for prebiotic multiphase systems, elucidating the hidden paths to Darwinian molecular evolution.

Hadron physics, symmetries, neutron physics, detectors, analysis, statistical methods, payload, satellite, electronics, spectroscopy, Belle 2, COMPASS, Belle, lifetime, beta decay, antimatter.

Synthetic life, Origin of Life, Molecular self-assembly

I am a theoretical physicist with research interest in particle physics in general, and flavour physics in particular, leading my own DFG Emmy-Noether group at the Technische Universität München.

String theory, quantum gravity, mathematic physics

Theoretical Particle Physics, Hadron Physics, Effective Field Theories for the Standard model and beyond, Field theory at finite temperature, Early Universe, Nonperturbative methods and lattice.

Effective field theory, nuclear and neutron matter, chiral perturbation theory, radiative corrections, nuclear few-body forces, hyperons in nuclear medium, density-dependent nucleon-nucleon potentials

stellar astronomy, extragalactic astronomy, evolution of galaxies

Theoretical particle physics.

Experimental particle physics at lepton and hadron colliders, detector development, physics and instrumentation at future colliders.

Computational Astrophysics, Theory of Planet Formation, Structure and evolution of planet forming disks

High energy elementary particle physics: ATLAS detector at the LHC, some focus on physics of top quarks and rare events; Particle detector development, some focus on Micro Structured Gas Detectors

Operation and data analysis of the ATLAS experiment at the LHC: Higgs boson physics, searches for supersymmetry, dark matter and new heavy resonances. Detector development for collider experiments.

cosmic structure formation, dark matter and dark energy, computational astrophysics, galaxy formation, supermassive black holes, intergalactic and circumgalactic medium

I study Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) using data covering the entire electromagnetic spectrum. I also work on very deep radio surveys, neutrino astronomy, and AGN outflows.

experimental particle physics, heavy quark physics, rare decays and CP violation, big data analytics

Experimental Particle Physics, Data Science

Development of satellite platforms for experimental space missions.

Physics of hadrons and nuclei. Evolution of matter with a focus on the generation of the heavy elements on the r- and rp- process. Experimental techniques for nuclear and particle physics.

Cosmology, especially the cosmic microwave background and the large-scale structure of the Universe and their implications for physics of the early Universe as well as of the late-time Universe.

Multiwavelength properties of Active Galactic Nuclei and the interplay with their host galaxy and the surrounding environment.

Quantum Field Theory, Gravity, String Theory

Neutrino physics

particle physics at low energies; beta decay of the neutron

Physics of Life, Statistical Physics, Nonequilibrium Physics, Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, Self-assembly and self-organisation, Pattern formation.

Experimental Particle Physics: electroweak precision tests, search for new particles, particle nature of Dark Matter, development of particle detectors, Grid Computing

Nonequilibrium statistical physics, Biophysics of RNA

supernova cosmology, high-precision determinations of the Hubble parameter

Galactic dynamics, Stellar populations, Integral field spectroscopy, Hydro and Nbody simulations of galaxies, Dynamical modelling

The research expertise of Oliver Trapp are reaction systems showing self-amplification of chirality and evolutionary molecular systems in the context of Origins of Life.

Astrochemical modelling, molecular spectroscopy, observations and theory of the earliest phases of star and planet formation and links to our Solar System.

observational cosmology, cosmic expansion rate, dark energy and dark matter, supermassive black holes, gravitational lensing, supernovae, Bayesian inference and methods

Statistical and biological physics, non-equilibrium physics, soft matter

theoretical particle physics, beyond the standard model, collider physics, dark matter

Biophysics and biochemistry approaches to reconstitute the origin of life

Astrophysical Black Holes, Accretion, Large Scale structure, astronomical surveys, X-ray astronomy

My research is in the field of astroparticle physics with the most extreme environments in the Universe (AGN, GRB, Pulsars…). Among other tools, I use gamma-ray observations with Fermi, MAGIC and CTA.

• Precision calculations, within and beyond the Standard Model of particle physics
• Numerical methods for multi-loop integrals/amplitudes
• Higgs and top quark phenomenology

Theoretical stellar structure and evolution; nucleosynthesis and the cosmological origin of the elements.

Galaxy dynamics, structure and evolution, dark matter halos, search for exoplanets

Cosmic evolution of AGN and their host galaxies. AGN feedback. Multi-object spectroscopy.

Theoretical astroparticle physics, neutrino physics and astrophysics, axions in astrophysics and cosmology

I work on the interface between observational and theoretical cosmology. My main research interest is to find out about the Origins of the accelerated expansion of the Universe.

B-Physics at e+e- colliders (SuperKEKB, Belle II): b-lifetimes, B0-oscillations, CP violation in B-decays, rare decays of B-Mesons.
Hardware: Advanced silicon detectors

Stellar explosion physics, cosmology, extragalactic astrophysics

Information field theory, information theory, Bayesian reasoning, machine learning, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics, radio astronomy, gamma ray astronomy, galactic tomography, and other areas.

Studies of structure formation and cosmology using data from multi-wavelength surveys in the mm-wave (SPT), optical/NIR (DES, Euclid, LSST), radio (MeerKAT) and X-ray (eROSITA).

Theoretical Astroparticle Physics. Dark matter theory and phenomenology. Neutrino mass models.

Our research deals with the origin of matter in the Universe, using small scale experiments with extreme precision. The main experiment of the group is the PanEDM instrument at ILL Grenoble.

Numerical Astrophysics

Star Formation, Young Stellar Objects, Protoplanetary Disks, Effects of Stellar Feedback on Star- and Planet-Formation

High-energy lepton and hadron scattering, experiments to test QCD, low-energy QCD and chiral dynamics, detector development and construction, simulations for experiment design, radiative corrections

Theory of strong and electroweak interactions, Physics of flavour and heavy quarks, Effective field theories of electroweak symmetry breaking, Higgs boson properties

I work in the field of hadron physics employing measurements at accelerators to infer on astrophysics phenomena as neutron stars or
the probation of cosmic rays within our galaxies.

Star and planet formation; infrared and submillimetre observations and related technologies.

Neutrino, neutrino astronomy, cosmic rays, blazars, AGN, IceCube experiment, Pacific Ocean Neutrino Explorer (P-ONE) experiment, STRAW path finders.

Dynamical processes in the Universe, including the structure and formation of dark matter halos, the formation and evolution of galaxies, the structure of the multi-phase, turbulent interstellar medium and the formation of stars and stellar clusters.

Theoretical Plasma-Astrophysics, Galaxies, Origin of life, Philosophy of science

Astroparticle physics, neutrino physics, dark matter search, low-background physics, development of radiation detectors, light instrumentation

Stellar dynamics and structure of galaxies. The Milky Way: structure, stellar kinematics, mass distribution, microlensing. Extragalactic planetary nebulae. Dark matter halos.

Our research focuses on RNA catalysis in early prebiotically plausible environments. In particular, we are interested in RNA synthesis and replication in frozen water-ice.

I study the dynamics of the stellar and gaseous components of galaxies, by analyzing simulations (both cosmological and isolated) and comparing with observed results.

Disk formation; star & planet formation; binary & multiple systems; computational magnetohydrodynamics; astrochemical modeling

Satellite galaxies in galaxy clusters: quenching, ram-pressure stripping, (post) star-burst galaxies

Observations of distant galaxies, particularly in the IR, submm and radio.

Galactic center black hole, infrared astronomy, spectroscopy, adaptive optics, interferometry

Experimental particle physics; data analysis

High performance computing, Distributed Systems, Networking

Physical Cosmology, Large-Scale Structure, Cosmic Voids

Stellar evolution, stellar explosions, supernovae, novae, nuclear reactions, nucleosynthesis, relativistic particles, cosmic rays, gamma rays, stardust, interstellar medium, Galaxy

Planet search and confirmation via multiband photometry and radial velocity ground based observations.

Galaxy formation and evolution with cosmological simulations, AGN feedback and galactic outflows, metal content in the ISM and stars, comparison with observation, dust evolution in the ISM

low temperature physics; neutron physics (UCN); bound beta decay of the neutron

Experimental physicist, searching for physics beyond the Standard Model, in particular supersymmetry and leptoquarks, with data taken with the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN.

Star clusters, dwarf galaxies, stellar populations, galaxy clusters

Galaxy formation, evolution, kinematics, dynamics. In short: everything that has to do with galaxies

Ground- and Space-based astronomical infrastructure, astronomical instrumentation and operations, astrobiology, exoplanets, Galaxy formation and evolution.

Hadron Physics, Meson Spectroscopy

Effective description of hybridization-ligation-cleavage dynamics in large RNA systems.

Pattern formation in complex systems, mass-conserving reaction-diffusion systems, mechanochemical coupling, nonequilibrium statistical physics

I work on different aspects of cosmology using galaxy clusters. This involves datasets from the SPT, DES, eROSITA and the upcoming LSST and CMB-S4 surveys, numerical simulations, and statistics.

Hadron-Hadron correlations measured at ALICE experiment, focus on hyperon-nucleon and hyperon-hyperon pairs to extract informations on the strong interaction crucial for Neutron Stars EoS.

Phenomenology of dense quark matter, quark matter equation of state, quark-hadron transition.

Search for new physics with the ATLAS detector at the LHC: Measurement of Higgs boson coupling properties, effective field theory interpretations. Search for diboson resonances and dark matter.

Boundaries and defects in supersymmetric and topological field theories in 3D

Numerical hydrodynamics, stellar Evolution, supernovae physics, and visulaization.

Low background experiments, Axion dark matter search, Search for Neutrinoless double beta decay.

Biology, Botany, Taxonomic botany, Botanic gardens, science education and outreach, biodiversity conservation, ecological restoration.

3x2pt correlation functions: combining weak lensing and galaxy clustering statistics.

Theoretical particle and astroparticle physics, beyond the standard model physics, theory of the early universe, dark matter.

Black Hole Physics, Quantum Gravity, String Theory.