The Fellows of the SSC SSC Fellows
Dr. Chris Byrohl is a postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Heidelberg. He studies the diffuse gas surrounding galaxies, the so-called circumgalactic medium, and their embedding large-scale structure, the cosmic web more than 10 billion years ago. Chris works with Dylan Nelson, running and analyzing cosmological galaxy formation simulations to understand the complex interplay of galaxies with their surroundings, and is particularly interested in linking upcoming observations of the Lyman-alpha emission line from the faint, diffuse cosmic web to test our understanding of galaxy evolution and structure formation. Chris is the developer of the scida package, a Python package for reading and analyzing large scientific data sets. Scida is currently focused on supporting the astrophysics community with the analysis of simulation and survey data. Dask scales with available hardware from individual machines to HPC clusters – and soon into the cloud.
Solène Gerwann is a doctoral candidate in sport psychology. After a MSc in Evolutionary Anthropology in Vienna, Solène joined the Institute of Sports and Sports Sciences in Heidelberg to investigate stress and coping in extreme sports. To better understand the contextual mechanisms of coping, she developed a VR paradigm to elicit extreme sport-specific stress – the XSST. Solène also developed a companion research interface. During her year of mentoring at the SSC, she would like to finalise the paradigm and make it available to other scientists, with comprehensive documentation.
Stefan Maurer holds a Master's degree in Physics from Heidelberg University and is currently pursuing his Ph.D., where he is developing a novel, image-based cell sorting method that enables a microscope to autonomously detect and target specific cells. With the experimental hardware setup now complete, Stefan is focusing on developing and refining the necessary software in Python. Additionally, he aims to create a user-friendly interface that allows for customization, making the system adaptable to specialized applications. Through the fellowship program, Stefan seeks to learn how to effectively organize, document, and distribute his code for scientific collaboration, as well as to receive guidance on optimizing and accelerating the code for high-throughput sorting.
Anna Lena Schaible received her Masters degree in Physics from the University of Stuttgart, where she focused on ionized gas kinematics of galaxies and the relation to Lyman-alpha observables. For her PhD, she shifted from a purely observational astrophysics background to cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of galaxies. During her PhD over the next few years, Anna Lena aims to develop a scientific software called RUBIX, which will forward model simulation data of galaxies into mock-observations and be both fast and differentiable. The SSC fellowship will help Anna Lena to learn the best practices to write a user friendly and computational efficient scientific software.
