I am a postdoctoral researcher (wissenschaftlicher Miterbeiter) at AIfA, associated to the SPODYR research group.
Currently, I am at the European Space Agency (ESA) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, as an international Research Fellow. My current project is to utilize the HST Legacy archive to derive structural and photometric properties of nuclear star clusters (NSCs) in a sample of 300 galaxies spannig a range in morphological  type and mass. First results are presented here. Such a large and homogeneous analysis is crucial for understanding the formation and evolution of such compact stellar systems in galactic nuclei.


I am investigating the observational properties of compact stellar systems (globular star clusters, nuclear clusters of late- and early-type dwarf and massive galaxies, ultra compact dwarf galaxies). Robust knowledge of their obsrvational properties provides theoretical models with empirical constrains to better understand and reconstruct galaxy formation history.

More about my research activities you can find from the links above.