Projects:

Ω Centauri

Image Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: A. Grado, L. Limatola/INAF-Capodimonte Observatory

Milky Way

Image Credit: ESO/S. Brunier

CV

Higher Education: University Degree
September 2020 - August 2024 MPIA (IMPRS HD)
& University of Heidelberg		 PhD in Astronomy
October 2017 -
October 2019		 University of Heidelberg
Master's thesis: Dynamical modelling of the Milky Way disc using Gaia Data (MPIA & Oxford University) 		Master of Science
in Physics
October 2018 -
June 2019		 University of Oxford
Baden-Württemberg Scholarship (10.2018- 2.2019) & PROMOS (DAAD, 3.2019-6.2019)		 Recognized student
October 2014 -
September 2017		 University of Heidelberg
Bachelor's thesis: Gas kinematics at the Galactic Centre (MPIA)		 Bachelor of Science
in Physics
Work/Internships: Description Location
Novemer 2019 -
August 2020		 Research assistant (50 % position) MPIA
December 2017
-July 2018		 Research assistant (HiWi) MPIA
August 2017 -
September 2017		 Internship with RISE-Worldwide Program (DAAD) scholarship
Topic: The GAPS detection sensitivity for low-energy cosmic-ray antihelium, Simulation and analysis in C++ 		University of Hawaii
at Manoa, Honolulu, USA
School: Graduation Location
Finished 2014 High school diploma Monemvasia, Greece

Publications

First Author publications:

  • oMEGACat III: Multi-band photometry and metallicities reveal spatially well-mixed populations within ω Centauri's half-light radius
    M. S. Nitschai, N. Neumayer, M. Häberle, C. Clontz, A. C. Seth, A. P. Milone, M. Alfaro-Cuello, A. Bellini, S. Dreizler, A. Feldmeier-Krause, T.-O. Husser, N. Kacharov, S. Kamann, M. Latour, M. Libralato, G. van de Ven, K. Voggel, Z. Wang
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 970, Number 2
    doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad5289 and arXiv:2406.01688
  • oMEGACat I: MUSE spectroscopy of 300,000 stars within the half-light radius of ω Centauri
    Nitschai, M. S.; Neumayer, N.; Clontz, C.; Häberle, M.; Seth, A. C. ; Husser, T.-O.; Kamann, S.; Alfaro-Cuello, M.; Kacharov, N.; Bellini, A.; Dotter, A.; Dreizler, S.; Feldmeier-Krause, A.; Latour, M.; Libralato, M.; Milone, A. P.; Pechetti, R.; van de Ven, G.; Voggel, K.; Weisz, Daniel R.
    Accepted for publication in ApJ.
    doi:10.3847/1538-4357/acf5db and arXiv:2309.02503
  • Dynamical model of the Milky Way using APOGEE and Gaia data
    Nitschai, Maria Selina; Eilers, Anna-Christina; Neumayer, Nadine; Cappellari, Michele; Rix, Hans-Walter
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 916, Issue 2, id.112, 15 pp., August 2021
    doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac04b5 and arXiv:2106.05286
  • First Gaia dynamical model of the Milky Way disc with six phase space coordinates: a test for galaxy dynamics
    Nitschai, Maria Selina; Cappellari, Michele; Neumayer, Nadine
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 494, Issue 4, pp.6001-6011, June 2020
    doi:10.1093/mnras/staa1128 and arXiv:1909.05269
  • Three-dimensional Analysis of the Minispiral at the Galactic Center: Orbital Parameters, Periods, and
    the Mass of the Black Hole
    Nitschai, Maria Selina; Neumayer, Nadine; Feldmeier-Krause, Anja
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 896, Issue 1, id.68, 14 pp., June 2020
    doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab8ea8 and arXiv:2004.13707

Co-Author publications:

  • oMEGACat IV: Constraining Ages of Omega Centauri sub-giant branch stars with HST and MUSE
    C. Clontz, A. C. Seth, A. Dotter, M. Häberle, M. S. Nitschai, N. Neumayer, A. Feldmeier-Krause, M. Latour, Z. Wang, S. O. Souza, N. Kacharov, A. Bellini, M. Libralato, R. Pechetti, G. van de Ven, M. Alfaro-Cuello
    Accepted for publication in ApJ
    arXiv:2409.13855
  • Fast-moving stars around an intermediate-mass black hole in ω Centauri
    Maximilian Häberle, Nadine Neumayer, Anil Seth, Andrea Bellini, Mattia Libralato, Holger Baumgardt, Matthew Whitaker, Antoine Dumont, Mayte Alfaro Cuello, Jay Anderson, Callie Clontz, Nikolay Kacharov, Sebastian Kamann, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Antonino Milone, Maria Selina Nitschai, Renuka Pechetti, Glenn van de Ven
    Nature volume 631, pages 285–288
    doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07511-z and arXiv:2405.06015
  • oMEGACat. II. Photometry and Proper Motions for 1.4 Million Stars in Omega Centauri and Its Rotation in the Plane of the Sky
    Maximilian Häberle, Nadine Neumayer, Andrea Bellini, Mattia Libralato, Callie Clontz, Anil C. Seth, Maria Selina Nitschai, Sebastian Kamann, Mayte Alfaro-Cuello, Jay Anderson, Stefan Dreizler, Anja Feldmeier-Krause, Nikolay Kacharov, Marilyn Latour, Antonino Milone, Renuka Pechetti, Glenn van de Ven, Karina Voggel
    The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 970, Number 2
    doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ad47f5 and arXiv:2404.03722