All of us can be reached via FirstName.LastName@ista.ac.at
Current Members
Mark Avara
Postdoc
office #I24.O2.030
Lucas Barrault
PhD Student (DOC Fellow)
office #I24.O3.040
Asteroseismology
website
Lynn Buchele
Postdoc
office #I24.O3.032
Asteroseismology,
Stellar models
& Magnetic fields
website
Lisa Bugnet
Faculty
office #I24.O3.031
Asteroseismology
& Stellar magnetism
website
Ilaria Caiazzo
Faculty
office #I24.O2.029
Stars and Compact Objects
website
Andrei-Alexandru Cristea
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.040
Aayush Desai
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.030
Compact object mergers, MHD
website
Claudia Di Cesare
Postdoc
office #I24.O3.041
early galaxies, stars & ISM
Debasish Dutta
PhD Student
office #I24.O2.028
Lukas Einramhof
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.040
Asteroseismology,
White dwarf magnetism
website
Ylva Götberg
Faculty
office #I24.O2.027
Interacting binary stars
website
Zoltan Haiman
Faculty
office #I24.O2.031
black hole astrophysics,
cosmology
website
Edoardo Iani
Postdoc (ISTA Fellow)
office #I24.O3.030
Shrriya Kapoor
Scientific Intern
office #I24.O2.036
Gauri Kotiwale
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.032
Ivan Kramarenko
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.030
early stars & galaxies
Armand Leclerc
Postdoc
office #I24.O3.041
Asteroseismology,
Topology
Sara Mascia
Postdoc (ISTA Fellow)
office #I24.O3.032
Jorryt Matthee
Faculty
office #I24.O3.029
early galaxies
website
Nicolas Muntean
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.040
Asteroseismology, Merger products
website
Benjamín Navarrete
PhD Student
office #I24.O2.028
early galaxies, ISM, reionization
website
David O’Neill
Postdoc
office #I24.O2.030
Kevin Park
PhD Student
office #I24.O2.028
black hole binaries
website
Xabier Perez-Couto
Visiting PhD Student
office #I24.O3.040
Matthew Scoggins
Visiting PhD Student
office #I24.O2.036
early galaxies & black holes
Gracjan Sienkiewicz
PhD Student
office #I24.O3.030
Kanah Smith
PhD Student
Asteroseismology & Machine learning
office #I24.O3.040
Alberto Torralba
Postdoc
office #I24.O3.032
early galaxies, AGN
website
Santiago Torres
Postdoc (IST-Bridge Fellow)
office #I24.O3.041
Joannes van Roestel
Postdoc
office #I24.O2.030
Dandan Wei
Postdoc (ISTA Fellow)
office #I24.O3.040
massive binaries & supernovae
website
Alumni
Sepideh Abdollahihasjin
PhD Student
09.2023 – 12.2024
Bethany Burt
Scientific Intern
06.2025 – 08.2025
Srijan Das
IST-Bridge Fellow (Postdoc)
05.2023 – 08.2023
Angie Davila Porras
Scientific Intern
04.2025 – 09.2025
Marguerite Epstein-Martin
Visiting PhD Student
06.2025 – 08.2025
Jaden Fitzpatrick
ISTern
05.2025 – 08.2025
Santiago Herrera Guzman
Scientific Intern
06.2025 – 09.2025
Alicia Jaksz
Scientific Intern
03.2024 – 08.2024
Peter Lechner
Scientific Intern
09.2023 – 08.2024
Georgia Priniotaki
ISTern
06.2024 – 08.2024
Syafira Putri
Scientific Intern
03.2025 – 09.2025
GROW Fellow in Asterics 09.2024 – 12.2024
Wei Qiang
ISTern
06.2023 – 08.2023
Sofia Vasieva
Scientific Intern
07.2025 – 09.2025
Rishi Venkatasubramanian
Scientific Intern
08.2023 – 03.2024
Hongyi Xiong
Scientific Intern
07.2025 – 09.2025