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Dylan Nelson among “Highly Cited Researchers" 2025

16 researchers from Heidelberg University feature on the list of “Highly Cited Researchers” 2025. Dylan Nelson (ZAH/ITA) is one of the five natural scientists among the Heidelberg researchers and his third HCR nomination. (2025/11/12)

Patzer Award for Elisa Schösser (ZAH/ARI)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation annually awards prizes for the best peer-reviewed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Elisa Schösser (ZAH/ARI) is one of the three prize winners. (2025/10/31)

New Gliese Fellow 2025: Dr. Natalia Lahén

Dr. Natalia Lahén started her new position as Gliese Fellow 2025 at ARI. Her main research interests focus on hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters in a galactic ecosystem. (2025/10/01)

Carl-Zeiss-Stiftung fördert neue Forschungsgruppe am ZAH

Mit seiner neuen Forschungsgruppe verfolgt Dr. Ksoll das Ziel, auf Basis des Maschinellen Lernens Auswertungsalgorithmen für die Erforschung der Sternentstehung zu entwickeln. Die CTS fördert sein Vorhaben mit 1,8 Millionen Euro. (2025/09/23)

LSWs optical systems design for CUBES passed final review

The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES), a future instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), has successfully passed its final design review. LSW is responsible for the design and development of its optical system. (2025/08/08)

The Thousand Colour Map of Sculptor

Astronomers created the most detailed colour map of the Sculptor Galaxy - a technical and scientific triumph also featuring Heidelberg expertise. (2025/07/14)

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Astro & Physics Talks

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Guest scientists at ZAH
Next Astro colloquia
Jan 22
11:15		Galaxy Clusters in a Cosmological Context
Daniel Wik (University of Utah, ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Jan 23
11:00		TBA
Myriam Benisty (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Jan 23
11:00		The Dynamics of Planet Formation
Myriam Benisty (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Recent ZAH publications
1/2026
Seidl, Benedikt S.; Gronke, Max et al.
Multi-cloud crushing ─ the collective survival of cold clouds in galactic outflows
MNRAS 545, f2016(2026)

1/2026
Schneider, J.-E.; Beuther, H. et al. (u.a. Klessen, R.)
Filamentary accretion flows in high-mass star-forming clouds
A&A 705, A64(2026)

1/2026
Kollmeier, Juna A.; Rix, Hans-Walter et al. (u.a. Wylezalek, Dominika; Sattler, Natascha; Li, Jing; Kreckel, Kathryn; Grebel, Eva K.; Glover, Simon; Egorova, Evgeniya; Egorov, Oleg)
Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy
AJ 171, 52(2026)

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