Organization
The MPA is one of several Max Planck Institutes that specialize in astronomy and astrophysics. Others are the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Graching (located next-door to the MPA), the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (a.k.a. Albert Einstein Institute) in Golm.
The institute is located next-door to the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, as well as the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory. It also enjoys close working relationships with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Technical University Munich.
At any given time, the institute employs approximately 50 scientists, instructs over 30 PhD students, and hosts about 20 visiting scientists (with about 60 visitors of over 2 weeks in any year).
As of 2012, the three directors of the MPA are Eiichiro Komatsu, Rashid Sunyaev and Simon White.
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