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Student supervision

Bachelor students:

2017 - 2018 Niko Winkel (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Stellar Properties of Compact Elliptical Galaxies and their Dependence on Environment (co-supervision)
2021 Valentin Oettinger (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Stellar population gradients in the elliptical galaxy M87
2022 Anna-Lena Grimm (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Investigating the Morphology of the Chromosome Map of Galactic Globular Clusters
2023 Adamo Hossein Sabbadin (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Investigating the properties of the far UV emission of early-type galaxies in the Virgo and Coma galaxy clusters

Master students:

1999 - 2000 M.S. Brigas (Cagliari University, Italy), Project: The stellar populations in NICMOS Parallel Fields
2010 - 2010 Andre Herling (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The stellar populations in dwarf galaxies (co-supervision)
2013 - 2014 Maria Claudia Ramirez Tannus (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Star formation in the outer disk of the spiral galaxy NGC 6946 (co-supervision)
2015 - 2016 Giulio Rosani (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The Influence of Galaxy Environment on the Stellar Initial Mass Function of Early-type Galaxies (co-supervision)
2018 - 2019 Faranak Ghahari (Heidelberg University), Project: Physical Properties of HII Regions in nearby Spiral Galaxies (co-supervision)
2019 - 2020 Niko Winkel (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The impact of the cosmic large scale structure on galaxy properties (co-supervision)
2023 Valeria Politino (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The parent stellar population of a candidate LBV star in Cygnus OB2
2023 - 2024 Ioannis Emmanuilidis (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The spectroscopic search for WHIM filaments in the outskirts of galaxy clusters with XMM-Newton
2023 - 2024 Laura Brillerty (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The birthcluster of the Galactic Luminous Blue Variable WRA 751

PhD students:

2001 - 2003 Nicole Homeier (University of Madison, USA), Project: IR Survey of Galactic Wolf-Rayet Stars (co-supervision)
2010 - 2014 Johannes Ludwig (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: A Survey of Dwarfs and Tidal Debris around Nearby Massive Galaxies (co-supervision)
2010 - 2015 Frederik Schönebeck (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Velocity Dispersion Measurements of Milky Way Globular Clusters with VLT/X-Shooter Spectroscopy (co-supervision)
2011 - 2016 Member of the PhD Thesis Committee of Shiwei Wu (MPIA Heidelberg, Germany)
2012 - 2016 Peter Zeidler (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Releaving the segrets of Westerlund 2 - young massive star cluster observed with the Hubble Space Telescope (co-supervision)
2013 - 2018 Clio Bertelli Motta (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The Footprints of Stellar Evolution on the Chemical Composition of the Galactic Old Open Cluster M67 (co-supervision)
2015 - 2018 Member of the PhD Thesis Committee of Mss. Steffi Yen (Heidelberg University, Germany)
2015 - 2018 Member of the PhD Thesis Committee of Mss. Priscilla Chauke (MPIA Heidelberg, Germany)
2015 - 2019 Fayezeh Shabani (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Probing the spiral grand design with star clusters
2016 - 2020 Member of the PhD Thesis Committee of Michael Hanke (Heidelberg University, Germany)
2018 - 2021 Thomas Jackson (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: The Mass Growth History of Central Galaxies
2018 - 2021 Bahar Bidaran (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Kinematics and Stellar populations of Dwarf Galaxies in Virgo (co-supervision)
2018 - 2021 Josefina Micea (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Morphology and Substructures of Dwarf Galaxies in Virgo and Fornax (co-supervision)
2020 - 2022 Member of the PhD Thesis Committee of Emily Hunt (Heidelberg University, Germany)
2022 - Pietro Facchini (Heidelberg University, Germany), Project: Environments of massive stars (co-supervision)
2023 - Member of the PhD Thesis Committee of Natascha Sattler (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Postdoc fellows:

1999 - 2000 ESO Fellow Dr. S. van Eck (ESO Headquarters, München, Germany), Project: The heavy metals abundance in low mass star atmospheres