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About us

The SFB1258 is a DFG funded research institution to tackle innovative, challenging, complex and long-term research undertakings in the field of Astro- and Particle Physics through the coordinaton and concentration of individuals and resources within the Technical University of Munich and through cooperation with partner institutions. The funding started on 1 January 2017 and will terminate on 31 December 2028, after a maximum of three funding periods of four years each. The current third funding period comprises 15 projects led by 25 principal investigators with about 40 positions for postdocs and doctoral researchers.

The members of the SFB1258 at the General Meeting 2023 at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). (Photo: Michael Willers)

Members

Speakers

Prof. Dr. Elisa Resconi
Speaker
(Photo: TUM)
Prof. Dr. Laura Fabbietti
Co-Speaker
(Photo: TUM)

Principle Investigators

Technical University of Munich

Akademie der Bildenden Künste Munich (AdBK)

Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics/FAU

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)

Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK)

Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP)

Principal Investigators in Austria

Mercator Fellows

Coordination & Science Communication

  • Petra Riedel

Financial Management

  • Marika Kotanidou
  • Eniko Juhaszova

Alumni

Former Principal Investigators

  • Dr. Matteo Agostini (TUM), 2017-2021, now lecturer (tenured) University College London, UK
  • Prof. Dr. Rikkert Frederix (TUM), 2017-2019, now Lund University, Sweden
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Ratz, TUM, 2017-2018, now University of California, USA
  • Dr. Patrick Vaudrevange TUM, 2017-2021
  • Prof. Dr. Shawn Bishop (†) (TUM), 2017-2021
  • Prof. Dr. Allen Caldwell (MPP), 2017-2024
  • Priv. Doz. Dr. habil. Jochen Greiner (MPE), 2017-2024
  • Prof. Dr. Julia Harz (TUM), 2021-2024, now University Mainz
  • Ass. Prof. Dr. Erwin Jericha (TU Wien), 2021-2024
  • Prof. Dr. Lothar Oberauer (TUM), 2017-2024
  • Dr. Paolo Padovani (ESO), 2017-2024

Former Mercator Fellows

Former Doctoral Researchers, Postdocs & Staff (non-exhaustive)

  • Angela Possanner (until December 2018)
  • Dr. Juraj Klaric (until May 2019), Postdoc at Nikhef Amsterdam
  • Dr. Cesar Bonilla Diaz (until July 2019), Associate Professor at Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile
  • Dr. Kai Krings (until December 2019)
  • Dr. Andreas Rappelt (until December 2019)
  • Dr. Konrad Altenmüller (until December 2019)
  • Dr. Steffen Maurus (until December 2019)
  • Dr. Joana Wirth (until December 2019)
  • Dr. Foteini Oikonomou (until April 2020), Associate Professor at NTNU Trondheim
  • Dr. Erik Parr (until June 2020)
  • Dr. Damien Bégué (until June 2020), Postdoc at Bar-Ilan University, Israel
  • Dr. Caspar Hasner (until July 2020), Yoummday
  • Prof. Dr. Saúl Ramos Sánchez, August Wilhelm Scheer Guest Professor (1.08.2019 - 31.07.2020), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Dr. Tina Pollmann (until August 2020), Professor (tenured) at University of Amsterdam
  • Dr. Johannes Herms (until September 2020), Postoc at MPIK, Germany
  • Dr. Andreas Mütter (until September 2020), Vontobel, Germany
  • Dr. Francesco Capozzi (until October 2020), UnivAQ, Italy
  • Dr. Francesco Berlato (until December 2020), Ionity, Germany
  • Dr. Ninoy Rahman (until December 2020), Posdoc at GSI Darmstadt, Germany
  • Dr. Anna Pollithy (until December 2020)
  • Dr. Stefan Knirck (until December 2020), Postdoc at Fermilab, USA
  • Dr. Andrea Turcati (until February 2021), OmegaLambdaTec GmbH
  • Samuel Boursaud (until March 2021), University of Freiburg
  • Dr. Matthias Huber (until April 2021)
  • Dr. Julia Sawatzki (until April 2021), Senacor Technologies, Germany
  • Dr. Birgit Neumair (until May 2021)
  • Dr. Maximilian Ruhdorfer (until July 2021), Postdoc at Cornell University, USA
  • Dr. Mateusz Duch (until September 2021)
  • Dr. Tim Brunst (until September 2021), Broadcom Inc., Germany
  • Dr. Luis Manzanillas (until December 2021), Synchrotron Soleil, France
  • Dr. Chang Lee (until December 2021)
  • Dr. Immacolata Carmen Rea (until December 2021), Postoc at NFN Naples, Italy
  • Dr. Felix Henningsen (until March 2022), Postdoc at Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Dr. Stephan Meighen-Berger (until April 2022), Postdoc at University of Melbourne, Australia
  • Dr. Lisa Schlüter (until July 2022), Postdoc at Berkeley Lab, USA
  • Dr. Javier Serra Marí (until July 2022), Ramon y Cajal Fellow at IFT Madrid, Spain
  • Dr. Christian Karl (until September 2022)
  • Dr. Gaurav Tomar (until September 2022), Assistant Professor at IIT Patna, India
  • Dr. Stefan Stelzl (until September 2022), Postdoc at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Dr. Petter Taule (until September 2022), Postdoc at IPhT Saclay, France
  • Dr. Kai Urban (until September 2022), AssetMetrix, Germany
  • Dr. Iuliana Stanciu (until December 2022), IFIN-HH, Romania
  • Dr. Theo Glauch (until Feb 2023), Wissenschaftl. Mitarbeiter, DLR, Germany
  • Dr. Lisa Schumacher (until April 2023), Akadem. Rat a. Z. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • Dr. Christian Haack (until April 2023), Akadem. Rat a. Z. FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  • Dr. Gonzalo Herrera Moreno (until Sep 2023), Postdoc at Virginia Tech, USA
  • Dr. Luca Pattavina (until Nov 2023), Professor (tenured), U Milano-Bicocca
  • Dr. J Michael Burgess (until Sep 2023)
  • Dr. Elisabetta Bossio (until Sep 2023), Postdoc at CEA, France
  • Dr. Martin Wolf (until Nov 2023)
  • Dr. Victoria Wagner (until Dec 2023), Infineon
  • Dr. Chiara Pinto (until Dec 2023), Research Fellow at CERN, Switzerland
  • Dr. Kilian Holzapfel (until April 2024), SmartRay GmbH, Germany
  • Dr. Konstantin Springmann (until April 2024), PostDoc at CERN, Switzerland
  • Dr. Angelina Kinast (until June 2024), kiutra GmbH, Germany
  • Dr. Frank Edzards (until June 2024), Rohde & Schwarz, Germany
  • Dr. Jakob Ehring (until Sep 2024), PostDoc at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
  • Dr. Luc Schnell (until Sep 2024), TNG Technology Consulting, Germany
  • Dr. Jerôme Vandecasteele (until Sep 2024), PostDoc at UBielefeld, Germany
  • Dr. Albert Feijoo (until Sep 2024), PostDoc at UValencia, Spain
  • Dr. Laura Serksnyte (until Oct 2024)
  • Dr. Patrick Krause (until Oct 2024), PostDoc at Simon Fraser University, Canada
  • Dr. Martina Karl (until Dez 2024)
  • Dr. Emanuele Gendy (until Dez 2024), Goldman Sachs, France
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Coordination & Science Communication

Financial Management