Prof Christoph Federrath

Associate Director HDR, former ARC Future Fellow and Stromlo Fellow

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Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
Calculated based on number of publications stored in Pure and citations from Scopus
20102025

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Biography

Christoph Federrath is a professor, faculty member, and associate director at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the Australian National University. He previously was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Stromlo Fellow, and held postdoctoral fellowships at the Monash Centre for Astrophysics in Melbourne, the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, and the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Heidelberg. He studied physics at the University of Wuerzburg from 2001 to 2007 and received a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) from the University of Heidelberg in 2010.

Research Interests

  • The physics and chemistry of star-forming gas clouds
  • Star formation in the present-day and early Universe
  • Fluid dynamics, turbulence, magnetic fields
  • Synthetic observations and development of observational methods
  • Numerical methods and computational techniques

Education/Academic qualification

Physics, PhD, Turbulence and Star Formation, Heidelberg University 

Award Date: 7 Jun 2010

Research student supervision

  • Registered to supervise

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