Staff

 

 

Secretariat 
 Ms. Siân Adey
Scientific Staff 
 Priv.-Doz. Dr. Silke Britzen
 Dr. Stefanie Komossa
 Prof. Dr. Yuri Y. Kovalev (MuSES Project PI)
 Dr. Thomas P. Krichbaum
 Dr. Andrei P. Lobanov
 Dr. habil. Rainer Mauersberger
 Prof. Dr. Eduardo Ros (Scientific Coordinator)
 Prof. Dr. J. Anton Zensus (Emeritus Director, M2FINDERS Project PI)
 Dr. Guang-Yao Zhao (M2FINDERS Project)
Postdoctoral Researchers 
 Dr. Mischa Breuhaus (MuSES Project)
 Dr. Jongseo Kim (M2FINDERS Project)
 Dr. Saurabh
 Dr. Elena Shablovinskaia (MuSES Project; Humboldt Fellow)
 Dr. Teresa Toscano (MuSES Project)
PhD Researchers 
 Ms. Lena C. Debbrecht
 Ms. Cecilia Degli Agosti
 Mr. Georgios Kalaitzidakis (MuSES Project)
 Mr. Vladislav Makeev (MuSES Project)
 Mr. Aditya Tamar (MuSES Project)
MSc Students 
 Mr. Sviatoslav Khukhlaev (Univ. Bonn; MuSES Project)
Guest Scientists 
 Dr. Walter Alef (retired)
 Dr. Anne-Kathrin Baczko (JMU Würzburg)
 Dr. Petra Benke (GFZ Potsdam)
 Dr. Vieri Bartolini (Bonn)
 Dr. Biagina Boccardi (Vienna)
 Dr. Sergio A. Dzib-Quijano (Bonn)
 Mr. Florian Eppel (JIVE/JMU Würzburg)
 Dr. Christian M. Fromm (JMU Würzburg) 
 Mr. Jonas Heßdörfer (JMU Würzburg)
 Prof. Dr. Michael Janßen (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen)
 Dr. Frédéric Jaron (Tech. Univ. Vienna)
 Dr. Galina Lipunova (Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg)
 Dr. RuSen Lu (Shanghai Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences; former partner group leader)
 Ms. Eftychia Madika (PhD Researcher, Leiden)
 Prof. Dr. Nicholas R. MacDonald (University of Mississippi; Partner Group Leader)
 Dr. Hendrik Müller (NRAO Socorro)
 Dr. Ioannis Myserlis (IRAM)
 Dr. Alexey Nikonov (Bonn)
 Dr. Georgios F. Paraschos (Uni-Aalto)
 Dr. Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez (INAOE Puebla; former partner group leader)
 Dr. Alexander Plavin (Harvard-CfA)
 Dr. Richard W. Porcas (retired)
 Dr. Jan Röder (IAA-CSIC)
 Mr. Florian Rösch (JMU Würzburg)
 Dr. Tuomas K. Savolainen (Aalto Univ. Helsinki)
 Dr. Gino Tuccari (IRA-INAF) 
Correlator Operations Division 
 Dr. Helge Rottmann (Division Head) 
 Dr. Jan F. Wagner
Geo-Team 
 Dr. Simone Bernhart
 Dr. Yoon Kyung Choi
  
  

Note on the MPIfR restructuring

Please note that, as part of the MPIfR's restructuring, the former VLBI Technology department was dissolved on 1 September 2026. A new department for Correlator Operations has been created, which is also responsible for Geodetic Correlation, as listed above. This department is now defined as an institute-wide facility, in the same way as the Effelsberg Operations and APEX Operations departments. The former technical development work of these departments has been transferred to the newly created Technology Development Department. The EU administrative staff have been reassigned to the Research Coordination department.  Please refer to the institute's organisational chart for details of the new distribution of duties.

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