Dr. rer. nat. Dominik Schleicher Tenure-track professor Theory Group Office 212 Department of Astronomy University of Concepcion Casilla 160-C Concepcion, Chile e-mail: dschleicher (at) astro (dash) udec (point) cl phone : + 56 - (0) 41 - 266 1649 fax : + 56 - (0) 41 - 224 4520 CV and list of publications

Short CV

• Diploma in Physics, 2007, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  
• PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Astronomy, 2009, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  
• ESO-ALMA fellow, 2009-2011, Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands
  
• Junior Professor for Cosmology, 2011-2015, University of Göttingen, Germany
  
• Tenure-track Professor for Astronomy, since 2015, Universidad de Concepcion, Chile
  
  

Research Interests

• Formation of the first stars and black holes
• Astrochemical modeling (including the KROME collaboration)
• Origin of magnetic fields; dynamo theory
• Physics of close binary systems

Teaching

• Computational cosmology
• Computational Physics
• Introduction to Astronomy I & II
• Seminar "Compact Objects in Astrophysics"
• Seminar "Theoretical Astrophysics"

Available Thesis Projects

• Influence of dust on the formation of the first stars in the Universe
• Magnetic fields in close binary systems
• Probing black hole formation with the high-redshift source CR 7
• Disk formation in close binary systems

Ongoing Thesis Projects

• Marcelo Andres Figueroa Guerra: Prospects of probing the physics of supermassive black holes with the Event Horizon Telescope (titulo project, Concepcion)
• Philipp Grete: Subgrid-scale closures for magneto-hydrodynamical models (PhD project, Göttingen)
• Stephanie Wutschik: Cosmological evolution of supermassive black holes (PhD project, Göttingen)

Third-party funding

• DFG project on "The low-metallicity ISM: From high-redshift to the local Universe" in the DFG Priority Program 1573 on the Interstellarl Medium", 2015-2018
• DFG project on "The low-metallicity ISM: Metal enrichment, chemistry, feedback and magnetic fields" in the DFG Priority Program 1573 on the Interstellarl Medium", 2012-2015
• DFG project A12 on "MHD turbulence and the origin of supermassive black holes" in the CRC 963 on "Astrophysical Flow Instabilities and Turbulence", 2012-2015

Organization of schools and conferences

• Third KROME Computational School for Astrochemistry", Florence, Italy, 2016
• Second KROME Computational School for Astrochemistry", Copenhagen, Denmark, 2015
• First KROME Computational School for Astrochemistry", Göttingen, Germany, 2014
• The low-metallicity ISM: Chemistry, Turbulence & Magnetic Fields, Göttingen, Germany, 2012

The former cosmology group in Göttingen

Former group members:

• Dr. Stefano Bovino (Hamburg Observatory)
• Dr. Pedro Capelo (ETH Zürich)
• Dr. Muhammad Latif (IAP Paris)
• Caroline Van Borm (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, Groningen)
• Wara Chamani (Aalto Observatory, Helsinki)
• Stephanie Dörschner (Uni Göttingen)
• Philipp Grete (Uni Göttingen)
• Tim Lichtenberg (ETH Zürich)
• Remudin Reshid Mekuria (University of Witwatersrand)
• Kai Rodenbeck (Uni Göttingen)