Transregio Collaboration TRR33

Our institute is part of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Heidelberg. Here at Heidelberg, we work together with the University's Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics located in our neighborhood and with the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy. We are also part of the Transregional Collaborative Research Centre TRR 33 - The Dark Universe.

Cosmology-related work is also done in the groups of Prof. Artur Hebecker and Prof. Jörg Jäckel.

For more cosmology in Heidelberg, see: Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Astronomisches Recheninstitut, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

Our research focuses on:

• Dark Energy
• Inhomogeneous cosmological models
• Lensing of standard candles
• Cosmic Microwave Background
• Inflation

In addition, our group developed cmbeasy, a versatile Boltzmann code for the comparison of cosmological models to observations.

• Valerio Marra left our group and is now postdoc in Rio de Janeiro
• (July 2013) Nature has published a commentary on a paper by C. Wetterich
• (June 2013) A recent PRL paper from our group addressing the tension between local and global measurements of the Hubble constant has been highlighted in the Synopsis of the APS and by the Heidelberg University press

• Shinji Tsujikawa (March 2014)
• Miguel Quartin (January 2014)
• Shinji Tsujikawa (January 2014)
• Mariele Motta (December 2013/January 2014)
• Guillermo Ballesteros (November 2013/June 2014)
• Laura Taddei (November 2013/June 2014)
• Claudia Antolini (October 2013)
• Takahiro Tanaka (October 2013)
• Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Tsutomu Kobayashi, Masahiro Takada (September 2013)
• Alessio Notari (8-11 July 2013)
• Cristiano Germani (July 2013)
• Miguel Quartin (July 2013)
• Ippocratis Saltas (15-20 July 2013)
• Nelson Nunes (July 2013)