Research Interests
Current research interests include formation of planets, stars in the group of Thomas Henning and galaxies and cosmology in the group of Hans-Walter Rix.
The MPIA also builds instruments or parts of them for ground-based telescopes and satellites, including the following:
- Calar Alto Observatory, jointly run by the MPIA and the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
- Paranal Observatory
- Large Binocular Telescope
- Herschel Space Observatory
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