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Dominika Wylezalek has been appointed as a new Professor at ZAH and Director at ARI, effective March 1, 2025. She will lead the research group “Galaxy Evolution and AGN (GALENA)”. (2025/02/24)

With its sky-scanning phase completed and "retirement” orbit imminent, the ARI team is saddened by the forced break in contact. But there are great data products on the horizon. (2025/01/16)

Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed to the "Henriette Herz Scouting Program". She now has the opportunity to recommend scientific talents from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Heidelberg. (2025/01/08)

To investigate the formation of dormant black holes which are part of a binary star system with a companion star, Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) receives a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (2025/01/07)

Eva Grebel (ZAH) received the teaching award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2024/12/06)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation is awarding the best refereed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI) are among the awardees. (2024/11/30)


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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM
Astro & Physics Talks
Next Astro colloquia
Mar 21
11:00
A Comprehensive Redshift Survey of the Brightest Herschel Galaxies
Pierre Cox (IAP)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Mar 28
11:00
TBA
Sofia Randich (INAF-Arcetri)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Apr 04
11:00
TBD
Joao Alves (Vienna)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Recent ZAH publications
2/2025
Donkov, Sava; Kopchev, Valentin et al. (inc. Veltchev, Todor V.)
Differential and integral scaling laws of the mass density of molecular clouds
BlgAJ 42, 3(2025)

2/2025
Leitinger, E. I.; Baumgardt, H. et al. (inc. Cabrera-Ziri, I.)
The kinematics of 30 Milky Way globular clusters and the multiple stellar populations within
A&A 694, A184(2025)

2/2025
Belfiore, Francesco; Ginolfi, Michele et al. (inc. Eduardo Méndez-Delgado, J.; Klessen, Ralf S.; Glover, Simon C. O.; Chevance, Melanie)
Machine learning the gap between real and simulated nebulae: A domain-adaptation approach to classify ionised nebulae in nearby galaxies
A&A 694, A212(2025)