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Prof. Dr. Stefanie Walch-Gassner

W3 Professor for Theoretical Astrophysics (BCGS)
President of the German Astronomical Society

AFFILITATION

Contact

  • email:        walch [at] ph1.uni-koeln.de
  • phone:       +49 (0) 221 470 3497
  • fax:             +49 (0) 221 470 6727

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Formation and evolution of stars, formation and evolution of disks (protostellar and protoplanetary), stellar multiplicity, planet formation, stellar feedback, ionization, winds and outflows, radiation transport,

High-Performance Computing, AMR and SPH simulations, special purpose hardware for numerical applications.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 

10/2011 - 10/2013
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

2008 - 2011
Research Associate, Cardiff University, Wales, UK

EDUCATION

10/2008
Dr. rer. nat. in physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
IMPRS student

06/2004
Diploma in Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Diploma Thesis at the Max-Planck Institut for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany

2000
Vordiplom in Physics, Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany

1998
Girls High School Kloster Seligenthal, Landshut, Germany