Staff

Head of Unit (interim) Jouni Kainulainen Head of division and assistant professor at Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics, Galactic Astronomy. Jouni Kainulainen’s research focuses on how new stars are born in the Milky Way and what is the life-cycle of the interstellar medium. The goal of his... Faculty Holly Andrews Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Holly Andrews is a postdoctoral researcher within the Evolved Stars group in the division of Astronomy and Plasma Physics at Chalmers University. Her work... Per Bjerkeli Researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Per Bjerkeli is part of the the unit of Galactic Astronomy, under the division for Astronomy and Plasma Physics. His research interests are mainly in the... John H Black Professor Emeritus, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy John H. Black's research concerns dilute matter in space in all its forms, including interstellar matter, comets, atmospheres, stellar winds, and... Hannah Calcutt Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Chiara Ceccobello Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Chiara Ceccobello’s primary research focus is understanding the physics behind the launching and collimation of outflowing material from black holes and... Giuliana Cosentino Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Giuliana Cosentino is Cosmic Origin Postdoctoral fellow whose main interest is on massive star formation. The main focus of her research is the... Elvire de Beck Assistant Professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Elvire is an astronomer with a main research interest in the outflows from evolved stars. She studies the chemistry and kinematics using observational... Rubén Fedriani Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Rubén Fedriani is a postdoctoral researcher working in the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics, in particular in Star Formation. His main research... Malcolm Fridlund Affiliated Professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Malcolm Fridlund was a staff scientist at ESA for 25 years working as study and project scientist for the DARWIN concept, and subsequently as project... Prasanta Gorai Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Prasanta Gorai is a Cosmic Origins Postdoctoral Fellow working on the field of astrochemistry of massive star formation. His primary research focuses on... Åke Hjalmarson Professor Emeritus, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma physics, Galactic Astronomy Kay Justtanont Emeritus Docent, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomi Kay's research is centered on studying dust and gas around evolved late-type (so-called AGB) stars. Much of Kay's work involves modelling ground-based... Jouni Kainulainen Head of division and assistant professor at Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics, Galactic Astronomy. Jouni Kainulainen’s research focuses on how new stars are born in the Milky Way and what is the life-cycle of the interstellar medium. The goal of his... Theo Khouri Researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Theo is a researcher in the division for Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Franz Kirsten Post Doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy. Franz is interested in all things related to Pulsars: Their birth locations and formation process, their whereabouts in the Galaxy, the mechanism driving... René Liseau Professor Emeritus, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy In 2008, René Liseau came to Chalmers from Stockholm University, where he held the professorship in Astronomical Space Research. Being the professor of... Matthias Maercker Researcher, Department of Space Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy My main research interests lie in the study of evolved stars on the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) and their mass-loss properties. I use observational data... Hans Olofsson Professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy My research focusses on the final evolution of solar-type stars on and beyond the asymptotic giant branch (AGB). These stars are important ingredients in... Jan Orkisz Post doctoral researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Jan Orkisz is a post-doctoral researcher working within the project PROMISE. His main research interests are star formation, interstellar turbulence and... Juan Pablo Farias Osses Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Carina Persson Senior Researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Carina's research is about exoplanets - planets around other stars. Thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in the last 25 years in Milky Way, our... Sara Rezaeikhoshbakht Post doc, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Sara Rezaei Kh. is a Chalmers-MPIA Cosmic Origin postdoctoral fellow since June 2019. Her research focuses on the three-dimensional distribution of dust... Jonathan Tan Professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy. Jonathan Tan is employed as Professor in the unit Galactic Astronomy, at the Division of Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Tan is a theoretical... Sandra Treviño Morales Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Sandra Treviño-Morales is a postdoctoral researcher working within the project 'PROMISE'. The main objective of the project is to explore how... Luis Velilla Prieto Post doctoral researcher, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Luis Velilla Prieto is a postdoctoral researcher in the Evolved Stars group of the Chalmers Department of Space, Earth and Environment. His research is... Anders Winnberg Professor Emeritus, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Wouter Vlemmings Professor, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy One of the questions that remains about the formation and final evolution of stars concerns the role of magnetic fields. My research group focuses on the... PhD Students and other staff Daria Dall` Olio PhD student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Daria Dall'Olio has a PhD position in the Division of Astronomy and Plasma Physics at the Department of Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers. She... Iskra Georgieva PhD Student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Iskra's PhD work is focused on the relatively new and exciting field of exoplanets. More specifically, she will be working on detection and... Chia-Jung Hsu PhD Student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Chia Jung Hsu uses simulation to understand the influence of chemical reactions to the star formation. He got his master degree in Physics at the National... Boy Lankhaar PhD student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Boy Lankhaar is a theoretical chemist working on astrophysical problems. He is a part of the division for Astronomy and Plasma Physics and has his office... Chi Yan Law PhD Student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Andri Spilker PhD Student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics. Andri Spilker is a PhD student at the division of Astronomy and Plasma Physics within the Department of Space, Earth and Environment at Chalmers. She is... Ramlal Unnikrishnan PhD student, Department of Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasma Physics, Galactic Astronomy Ramlal Unnikrishnan is a PhD student in the Evolved Stars group at the Astronomy and Plasma Physics Division of the Department of Space, Earth and...