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Status as a University of Excellence defended

Heidelberg University has defended its status as a University of Excellence and will receive funding for another seven years to continue strengthening its scientific and scholarly performance. (2026/03/11)

ZAH mourns Joachim Krautter

Prof. Joachim Krautter passed away on February 4th, 2026, in Neckargemünd. Throughout his professional career he was associated with LSW and the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2026/03/11)

DFG funds Research Project in Galactic Archaeology

To reconstruct the formation history and “growth” of the Milky Way using novel methods in computational astrophysics, Dr Tobias Buck and Dr William Oliver are receiving funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (2026/03/03)

Festive Colloquium in Honor of Joachim Wambsganß

The retirement of Prof. Joachim Wambsganss, long-serving director of ARI, was celebrated in the historic Alte Aula of Heidelberg University with a memorable Festkolloquium entitled “Gravitational Lensing”. (2026/02/28)

International Conference on Microlensing in Heidelberg

The international conference "Microlensing 2026" (Febr. 23-27) for the first time takes place in Heidelberg and was primarily organized by ZAH scientists. (2026/02/20)

Largest turbulence simulation honoured by "HPCwire"

The largest turbulence simulation to date was honoured by the journal "HPCwire" as "Top HPC-Enabled Scientific Achievements". As part of the core team also Ralf Klessen contributed to this success.(2025/11/20)

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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

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Astro & Physics talks

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Next Astro colloquia
Apr 16
11:15		Supermassive black hole seeding: from intermediate-mass black holes to Little Red Dots
Igor Chilingarian (CFA Harvard)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Apr 17
11:00		Decoding the ISM in M31 Across Wavelengths: From Dust Properties to Anomalous Microwave Emission
Sihan Jiao (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Apr 21
16:30		 Stellar populations as fossil record of galaxy evolution across half of the cosmic history
Anna Gallazzi (INAF/Osservatorio di Arcetri)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS),

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Recent ZAH publications
3/2026
Martocchia, S.; Boselli, A. et al. (inc. Maturi, M.; Zinchenko, I. A.)
Euclid: Early Release Observations ─ The star formation history of massive early-type galaxies in the Perseus cluster
A&A 708, A63(2026)

3/2026
Holas, Alexander; Agaeva, Veronica et al. (inc. Vetter, Marco; Röpke, Friedrich K.)
Localized 18O production in white dwarf mergers
EPJA 62, 50(2026)

3/2026
Placco, Vinicius M.; Limberg, Guilherme et al. (inc. Christlieb, Norbert)
HE 0144─4657: A Carbon-enhanced Ultra-metal-poor Star ([Fe/H] ∼ −4.1) from the Helmi Stream Disrupted Dwarf Galaxy
ApJ 1000, L34(2026)


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