Hannah Calcutt, Dorottya Szecsi, and Tobias Hinse are joining the research staff of the Centre this fall/winter. Their research interests include astrochemistry, gravitational waves, and exoplanets. Welcome!
Dr. Calcutt will join the Centre at the end of November, 2020. Dr. Szecsi officially joined the Centre on October 16, 2020. Dr. Hinse will join the Centre at the end of February, 2021.
Dr. Hannah Calcutt – her research focuses on understanding the physical and chemical conditions in low-, intermediate- and high-mass stars star-forming environments. Through a combination of observational astrochemistry and theoretical modelling, her work explores the chemical conditions in these complex environments, linking the conditions of star formation and planet formation, to Solar System bodies and potentially even the precursors to the formation of life.
In 2015, she gained a PhD from University College London, defending her thesis ‘the early stages of massive star formation: tracing the physical and chemical conditions in hot cores’. Following her PhD, she has held research positions at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, as a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Planet and Star Formation (StarPlan) and as an Origins Fellow at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
Dr. T. C. Hinze - was awarded a PhD in astronomy and astrophysics from the Queen's University Belfast, UK. His research interests are within solar system small-body dynamics, extrasolar planets, principles of astrostatistics and data modelling. He received a KRCF Young Scientist Research Fellowship award from the Korea National Research Foundation and was awarded twice the best postdoctoral award from the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.
Dr. Dorottya Szécsi – she holds a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the University of Cologne (Germany) and completed her PhD at the University of Bonn (Germany) in 2016 on the life and death of metal-poor massive stars. As a recognition of her research, she was awarded the Jan Frič Premium for Young Researchers of the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences for the year 2017, the Honours Branch (H2) scholarship of the Bonn-Cologne Graduate School in 2013, as well as a First Prize at the Young Scientist Competition of the Hungarian National Scientific Students' Association in 2011. In Poland, she is working on the theory of gravitational-wave progenitors and other massive stars.