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Galactic Gas Explorer
From reconstructions of gaseous atomic and molecular Hydrogen (corresponding publication) in the Milky Way, I have created an interactive, 3D visualisation that everyone can access in the browser.
Recent Activity
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IFT & Inference Methods Meeting
To kick off the new year, I invited the mw-atlas crew and colleagues working with and on IFT to a 3-day workshop at the MPA in Garching from January 12-14. A big thank you to everyone participating but especially to Ben Dodge, Philipp Frank, Jakob Knollmüller, Torsten Enßlin, Ludwic Mendez, and Matteo Guardiani for their…
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mw-atlas kickoff
The mw-atlas (Milky Way atlas) project will create the first three-dimensional, comprehensive atlas of our Galaxy. Within the scope of a European Research Council Synergy Grant, mw-atlas will revolutionize our understanding of the structure of the Milky Way over the next six years. As scientific coordinator in this project, my first task was kicking off…
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GISM3 Summer School
I travelled to Banyuls-sur-Mer in southern France, attending the International Summer School on The Interstellar Medium of Nearby Galaxies (GISM3). The lectures spanned the areas of methods (machine learning, information measures, Bayesian inference, simulations), observations (across the electromagnetic spectrum, including various emission lines), and theory (interstellar grains, astrochemistry, stellar populations, nucleosynthesis). I participated in a…