Exciting news: IMPRS alumna Arshia Jacob not only received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society, but in addition their prestigious Otto Hahn Award, which comes with funding for an independent research group. This is the second Otto Hahn Award at our IMPRS (the other went to Bia Boccardi). Congratulations to Arshia and her [...]
Congratulations to our IMPRS board member Prof. Andreas Eckart for being awarded the Ernst Mach Medal 2021 for Merits in the Physical Sciences by the Czech Academy of Science. Prof. Eckart is teaching at our partner university of Cologne and has successfully supervised a significant number of PhD theses in the IMPRS.
IMPRS alumna Arshia Jacob has been awarded an Otto Hahn Medal for her thesis on "Small Molecules, Big Impact: Investigating hydrides in the interstellar medium". She did her thesis work in the Menten group and is now as a postdoc at John Hopkins University. Let's congratulate Arshia on this achievement.
IMPRS alumnus Dr. Jae-Young Kim received the prestigious Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for his Millimeter VLBI studies of the relativistic jet in the giant radio galaxy Messier 87. Congratulations!
IMPRS alumnus Andrew Cameron received the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society for his thesis on pulsar searches.Congratulations!
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
