Welcome!

Dear Visitor,

Welcome to my homepage dedicated to my professional life as an observing astrophysicist. I work on the centers of nearby galaxies, trying to observe and understand the immediate surroundings of the supermassive black holes (SMBH) that lurk there. Many of these SMBH actively accrete material from their surroundings creating "bright fireworks" that can be observed all throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.

Here you will not only find all relevant information about me and my research but I will also post once in a while interesting information I encounter during my work.

Please feel free to contact me in case of questions or comments!

Wednesday, July 10, 2019

My Python library

Here is the dropbox link to my ever growing and evolving little library of Python routines (Python 3 compatible).


  • Collection of miscellaneous little helper routines, including a table crossmatching an cone-searching routine
  • Imaging-related routines, e.g., finding point sources, simulate observations, create multiplot galleries
  • my custom VISIR pipeline
  • some WISE related routines, e.g., for converting the magnitudes into flux densities

Most of the routines are documented and should be self-explanatory but I am still working on a more detailed documentation, version control/history and so on. Please let me know if you have any questions!