Group Leader

Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53620 +49 (89) 30000 - 2015 E-Mail: sherry.suyu@tum.de Room: 3007 |
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Selected Publications: Suyu, S. H., Huber, S., Cañameras, R., Kromer, M., Schuldt, S., Taubenberger, S., Yıldırım, A., Bonvin, V., Chan, J. H. H., Courbin, F., et al. (2020) "HOLISMOKES. I. Highly Optimised Lensing Investigations of Supernovae, Microlensing Objects, and Kinematics of Ellipticals and Spirals," A&A, 644, A162 Wong, K. C., Suyu, S. H., Chen, G. C.-F., Rusu, C. E., Millon, M., Sluse, D., Bonvin, V., Fassnacht, C. D., Taubenberger, S., Auger, M. W., et al. (2020) "H0LiCOW - XIII. A 2.4 per cent measurement of H0 from lensed quasars: 5.3σ tension between early- and late-Universe probes," MNRAS, 498, 1420-1439 Suyu, S. H., Bonvin, V., Courbin, F., Fassnacht, C. D., Rusu, C. E., Sluse, D., Treu, T., Wong, K. C., Auger, M. W., Ding, X., et al. (2017) "H0LiCOW - I. H0 Lenses in COSMOGRAIL's Wellspring: program overview," MNRAS, 468, 2590-2604 Suyu, S. H., Hensel, S. W., McKean, J. P., Fassnacht, C. D., Treu, T., Halkola, A., Norbury, M., Jackson, N., Schneider, P., Thompson, D., et al. (2012) "Disentangling Baryons and Dark Matter in the Spiral Gravitational Lens B1933+503," ApJ, 750, 10 Suyu, S. H., & Halkola, A. (2010) "The halos of satellite galaxies: the companion of the massive elliptical lens SL2S J08544-0121," A&A, 524, A94 |
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Postdocs

Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53622 E-Mail: ge62yic@mytum.de Room: 3003 |
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Publications: Bag, S., Shafieloo, A., Liao, K., and Treu, T. (2022), "Identifying Lensed Quasars and Measuring Their Time Delays from Unresolved Light Curves", ApJ, 927, 191. Bag, S., Sohn, W., Shafieloo, A., and Liao, K. (2022), "Harnessing Unresolved Lensed Quasars: The Mathematical Foundation of the Fluctuation Curve", arXiv e-prints 2209.11078 (ApJ press) Bag, S., Kim, A. G., Linder, E. V., and Shafieloo, A. (2021), "Be It Unresolved: Measuring Time Delays from Lensed Supernovae", ApJ, 910, 65 Denissenya, M., Bag, S., Kim, A. G., Linder, E. V., and Shafieloo, A. (2022), "Out of one, many: distinguishing time delays from lensed supernovae", MNRAS, 511, 1210 Bag, S., Shafieloo, A., Smith, R., Chung, H., Linder, E. V., Park, C., Abylkairov, Y. S., and Yelshibekov, K., (2022), "A novel approach for calculating galaxy rotation curves using spaxel cross-correlation and iterative smoothing", MNRAS, 514, 2278 Bag, S., Mondal, R., Sarkar, P., Bharadwaj, S., Choudhury, T. R., and Sahni, V. (2019), "Studying the morphology of H I isodensity surfaces during reionization using Shapefinders and percolation analysis", MNRAS, 485, 2235 Bag, S., Mondal, R., Sarkar, P., Bharadwaj, S., and Sahni, V. (2018), "The shape and size distribution of H II regions near the percolation transition", MNRAS, 477, 1984 Bag, S., Mishra, S. S., and Sahni, V. (2018), "New tracker models of dark energy", JCAP, 08 (2018), 009 Alam, U., Bag, S., and Sahni, V. (2017), “Constraining the cosmology of the phantom brane using distance measures”, PRD, 95, 023524 Bag, S., Viznyuk, A., Shtanov, Y., and Sahni, V. (2016), "Cosmological perturbations on the phantom brane", JCAP, 07 (2016), 038
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Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53623 E-Mail: stefan.taubenberger@tum.de Room: 3001 |
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Selected publications: Cañameras, R., Schuldt, S., Suyu, S. H., Taubenberger, S., Meinhardt, T., Leal-Taixé, L., Lemon, C., Rojas, K., & Savary, E. (2020) "HOLISMOKES. II. Identifying galaxy-scale strong gravitational lenses in Pan-STARRS using convolutional neural networks," A&A, 644, A163 Wong, K. C., Suyu, S. H., Chen, G. C.-F., Rusu, C. E., Millon, M., Sluse, D., Bonvin, V., Fassnacht, C. D., Taubenberger, S., Auger, M. W., et al. (2020) "H0LiCOW - XIII. A 2.4 per cent measurement of H<SUB>0</SUB> from lensed quasars: 5.3σ tension between early- and late-Universe probes," MNRAS, 498, 1420-1439 Taubenberger, S., Suyu, S. H., Komatsu, E., Jee, I., Birrer, S., Bonvin, V., Courbin, F., Rusu, C. E., Shajib, A. J., & Wong, K. C. (2019) "The Hubble constant determined through an inverse distance ladder including quasar time delays and Type Ia supernovae," A&A, 628, L7 Taubenberger, S. (2017) "The Extremes of Thermonuclear Supernovae," hsn..book, 317 Pakmor, R., Kromer, M., Taubenberger, S., & Springel, V. (2013) "Helium-ignited Violent Mergers as a Unified Model for Normal and Rapidly Declining Type Ia Supernovae," ApJL, 770, L8 Pakmor, R., Kromer, M., Taubenberger, S., Sim, S. A., Röpke, F. K., & Hillebrandt, W. (2012) "Normal Type Ia Supernovae from Violent Mergers of White Dwarf Binaries," ApJL, 747, L10 Hachinger, S., Mazzali, P. A., Taubenberger, S., Hillebrandt, W., Nomoto, K., & Sauer, D. N. (2012) "How much H and He is 'hidden' in SNe Ib/c? - I. Low-mass objects," MNRAS, 422, 70-88 Taubenberger, S., Benetti, S., Childress, M., Pakmor, R., Hachinger, S., Mazzali, P. A., Stanishev, V., Elias-Rosa, N., Agnoletto, I., Bufano, F., et al. (2011) "High luminosity, slow ejecta and persistent carbon lines: SN 2009dc challenges thermonuclear explosion scenarios," MNRAS, 412, 2735-2762 Taubenberger, S., Valenti, S., Benetti, S., Cappellaro, E., Della Valle, M., Elias-Rosa, N., Hachinger, S., Hillebrandt, W., Maeda, K., Mazzali, P. A., et al. (2009) "Nebular emission-line profiles of Type Ib/c supernovae - probing the ejecta asphericity," MNRAS, 397, 677-694 Taubenberger, S., Pastorello, A., Mazzali, P. A., Valenti, S., Pignata, G., Sauer, D. N., Arbey, A., Bärnbantner, O., Benetti, S., Della Valle, A., et al. (2006) "SN 2004aw: confirming diversity of Type Ic supernovae," MNRAS, 371, 1459-1477 |

Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53625 E-Mail: ge82qog@mytum.de Room: 3101 |
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Selected publications: Wang, H., Cañameras, R., Caminha, G. B., Suyu, S. H., Yıldırım, A., Chirivì, G., Christensen, L., Grillo, C., & Schuldt, S. (2022) "Constraining the multi-scale dark-matter distribution in CASSOWARY 31 with strong gravitational lensing and stellar dynamics," A&A, 668, A162 Wang, H., Cañameras, R., Suyu, S. H., Galan, A., Grillo, C., Caminha, G. B., & Christensen, L. (2024) "Strong-lensing and kinematic analysis of CASSOWARY 31: Can strong lensing constrain the masses of multi-plane lenses?" A&A, 690, A1 Wang, H., Suyu, S. H., Galan, A., Halkola, A., Cappellari, M., Shajib, A. J., & Cernetic, M. (2025) "GPU-Accelerated Gravitational Lensing & Dynamical (GLaD) Modeling for Cosmology and Galaxies," arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.01302 |
PhD Students

Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53626 E-Mail: elias.mamuzic@tum.de Room: 3101 |
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Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53624 E-Mail: limeng.deng@tum.de Room: 3101 |
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Master's Students

Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53626 E-Mail: allan.g.schweinfurth@tum.de Room: 3101 |
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Bachelor's Students
Phone: +49 (89) 289 - 53626 E-Mail: Room: 3101 |
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Alumni
| Irham Taufik Andika (former postdoc) Gabriel Bartosch Caminha (former postdoc) Raoul Cañameras (former postdoc) Gordon Ming Kei Chan (former visiting bachelor’s student) James Hung-Hsu Chan (former PhD student) Dani Chun-Yi Chao (former PhD student) Geoff Chih-Fan Chen (former master’s student) Janet Ting-Wan Chen (former postdoc) Giulia Chirivì (former master's and PhD student) Sebastian Ertl (former master's and PhD student) Andreas Filipp (former master’s student) Aymeric Galan (former postdoc) Jana Grupa (former master's and PhD student) Florian Höfer (former bachelor’s student) Simon Huber (former master's and PhD student) Alejandra Melo Melo (former postdoc) Stefan Schuldt (former master's and PhD student) Yiping Shu (former postdoc) Chitsanupong "Chichi" Somma (former bachelor’s student) Kaitlyn Szekerczes (former visiting bachelor’s student) Christian Vogl (former postdoc) Kenneth Wong (former postdoc) Akın Yıldırım (former postdoc) |