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Hengstberger Award for Dr. Dominika Wylezalek

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at ZAH/ARI, received the Hengstberger Award 2024. The award will support Dr. Wylezalek in organising a scientific symposium at the IWH in 2025. (2024/10/19)

The Landessternwarte mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare

The Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW) mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare, who died on July 24, 2024 at the age of 92. (2024/07/25)

Joachim Wambsganss is new director of ZAH

Since July 1, 2024, Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss (ZAH/ARI) is director of ZAH. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Norbert Christlieb, who was director since July 1, 2021 and who is now ZAH deputy director. (2024/07/01)

Dominika Wylezalek admitted to the Young Academy

The Young Academy welcomed ten young scientists as new members, amongst them Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI). New members have the opportunity to e.g. initiate interdisciplinary research projects and working groups. (2024/06/24)

2024 Copernicus Award for Joachim Wambsganss

German Research Foundation and Foundation for Polish Science jointly honour Heidelberg scientist and his colleague Andrzej Udalski from Warsaw. (2024/05/22)

Ralf Klessen selected as Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellow

The Harvard Radcliffe Institute announced the selection of Ralf Klessen (ZAH/ITA) as a fellow for the academic year 24/25. This provides him the opportunity to pursue ambitious projects in the unique environment of the Institute. (2024/05/13)

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Astro & Physics Talks

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Next Astro colloquia
Nov 21
11:15		Be Stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Abhinna Sundar Samantaray (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Nov 22
11:00		Constraining small planet compositions with catastrophically evaporating rocky planets
Beatriz Campos Estrada (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Nov 26
16:30		Chemical Enrichments in the Milky Way and Its Accreted Dwarf Galaxies
Dr Tadafumi Matsuno (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut, Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS)

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Recent ZAH publications
11/2024
Brazzini, Matilde; Belfiore, Francesco et al. (inc. Méndez-Delgado, Jose Eduardo; Klessen, Ralf S.; Kreckel, Kathryn)
Metallicity calibrations based on auroral lines from PHANGS–MUSE data
A&A 691, A173(2024)

11/2024
Lu, Yuxi (Lucy); Minchev, Ivan et al. (inc. Buck, Tobias)
There is no place like home - finding birth radii of stars in the Milky Way
MNRAS 535, 392(2024)

11/2024
Morbidelli, Alessandro; Marrocchi, Yves et al. (inc. Dullemond, Cornelis P.)
Formation and evolution of a protoplanetary disk: Combining observations, simulations, and cosmochemical constraints
A&A 691, A147(2024)

more publications ...