Introducing the 2025 ESO Fellows - Germany and Chile

Published: 02 Apr 2025
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The Offices for Science are very pleased to present the 2025 ESO Fellows. Here is an introduction to the Fellows due to start in Garching and Chile later this year.

Fellows in Germany

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Markus Bonse

  • Research Interests: Direct imaging and of exoplanets and substellar companions with instruments such as ERIS, NACO or SPHERE; application and development of new machine learning techniques based on domain knowledge, archival surveys, adaptive optics, and the detection and characterisation of Earth-like exoplanets in the ELT era.
  • Current Institute: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Starting date: October 2025
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Victoria Fawcett

  • Research Interests: AGN; Galaxy evolution; Dusty quasars; Spectroscopic surveys; Radio emission; AGN outflows and feedback.
  • Current Institute: Newcastle University, UK
  • Starting date: December 2025
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Stefanie Fijma

  • Research Interests: Compact objects, accretion, outflows, binary and stellar evolution, as well as leveraging multi-wavelength data across X-ray, UV, optical, near-infrared, and radio bands.
  • Current Institute: Anton Pannekoek Institute (API), University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Starting date: November 2025
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Maximilian Häberle

  • Research interests: Dynamics of globular clusters, intermediate-mass black holes, high-precision astrometry, astronomical instrumentation
  • Current Institute: Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
  • Starting Date: September 2025
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Bibiana Prinoth

  • Research interests: Exoplanets, exoplanet atmospheres, high-resolution spectroscopy, atmospheres-formation link
  • Current institute: Lund University, Sweden
  • Starting date: October 2025
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Martin Schlecker

  • Research Interests: Exoplanet demographics, formation, and habitability. Survey simulations and instrument trade studies. Atmospheric biosignatures.
  • Current Institute: Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, USA
  • Starting date: July 2025
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Jochen Stadler

  • Research Interests: Planet formation, mm-wavelength interferometry, high-contrast imaging, and protoplanetary disk chemistry. Investigating the molecular gas kinematics of protoplanetary disks to study their physical and chemical structure and to hunt for protoplanets in formation.
  • Current Institute: Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France
  • Starting date: November 2025

 

Fellows in Chile

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Mar Carretero Castrillo

  • Research Interests: Massive stars, runaway stars, rotation, interaction of runaway stars with the ISM and ejection mechanisms in binaries and young clusters. Massive binary systems, high-mass X-ray binaries and gamma-ray binaries. Multi-wavelength astronomy and high-energy astrophysics. Working with Gaia astrometry and MAGIC Telescopes data.
  • Current Institute: Universitat de Barcelona and Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Barcelona, Spain
  • Starting date: December 2025
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Claudio Hernández Vera

  • Research Interests: Astrochemistry, organic molecules during star and planet formation, interactions between stellar UV radiation and molecular gas, protoplanetary disks. Sub-millimeter interferometry and chemical modeling.
  • Current Institute: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
  • Starting date: October 2025
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Hannah Osborne

  • Research Interests: Exoplanet detection, high precision radial velocities, small exoplanet compositions, characterisation of transiting planets, giant planet system architecture
  • Current Institute: Mullard Space Science Laboratory - University College London
  • Starting date: July 2025