Oliver Gressel

about me

My research work here at the AIP is centered around astrophysical turbulence and MHD, with special emphasis on dynamo theory. Applications included the modeling of the turbulent interstellar medium, the large-scale galactic dynamo, and magnetic turbulence in protoplanetary accretion discs.

In the years from 2013 to 2018, I was an assistant/associate professor at the Theoretical Astrophysics group at the Niels Bohr International Academy. I currently remain affiliated with the Niels Bohr Institute as an external associate professor in Computational Astrophysics.
During 2012/13 I was a Nordic Fellow at the astrophysics group at Nordita, where I worked with Axel Brandenburg and Dhrubaditya Mitra.
From 2009 to 2011, I have been working at the Planet Formation Group of the Astronomy Unit at Queen Mary, University of London. My research interests there were focused around turbulent accretion discs as the environment of planet formation. This included numerical simulations of magneto-hydrodynamic turbulence and its effects on the growth of planetesimals and protoplanets.
Before I moved to London, I worked as a research student at the MHD group of the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam. In March 2009, I received my PhD degree from the University of Potsdam. My thesis work is concerned with supernova-driven turbulence in galactic disks and compares dynamo theory with direct simulations of the interstellar medium. As part of this work, I was involved in the development of the NIRVANA fluids code.