Dr Natalia Lahén started her new position as Gliese Fellow 2025 at the Astronomisches Rechen-Institut (ARI).
Dr. Natalia Lahén carried out her PhD and graduated in 2020 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Her thesis was on the topic of starburst galaxies and star cluster formation using hydrodynamical simulations and synthetic observations. Dr. Lahén won the Väisälä Prize (https://www.ttseura.fi/prize.html) for an outstanding PhD thesis in astronomy awarded by the Finnish Astronomical Society. Between 2020-2025 Dr. Lahén held an independent postdoctoral research fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Germany.
The work of Dr. Lahén approaches galaxy evolution as a multi-scale challenge through the development and analysis of hydrodynamical simulations. Her focus is on the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters in a galactic ecosystem and how stars impact their environment through the release of energy and chemical elements into the interstellar medium. She uses the GADGET-3 hydrodynamical galaxy evolution code and often combines synthetic observations and observational data reduction techniques in her work.
Dr. Lahén will spend her fellowship at ZAH/ARI which started on October 1, 2025.
