For our Nov 15th deadline we received 120 applications from highly qualified and motivated students. 55 of those have been selected and invited for interviews via Skype. Those interviews will be coducted the second and third week of January 2019.
The IMPRS for A&A underwent an extensive review by independent evaluators. As a result the Max Society will secure the continuation of its activity for 6 years beyond the current funding period, which ends in 3/2020. The IMPRS will obtain continued fundsing of 442000 Euro/yr until 2026. Together with the considerable funding by the partner institutes this [...]
IMPRS alumna Biagina Boccardi received the Otto Hahn Medal together with the Otto Hahn Award from the MPG vice president Ferdi Schüth. She did her research on "The two-sided relativistic outflow in Cygnus A: extragalactic jet physics at extreme spatial resolution" under Thomas Krichbaum's supervision in the VLBI group. photo: ©Matthias Eimer for Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
