Dr. Veronika Schaffenroth

Research areas:

Photometric and spectroscopic observations of close, evolved binaries
(Eclipsing) post-common envelope systems
Pulsations in binaries
Hot subdwarf stars
Influence of stellar and substellar companions on stellar evolution
stable and unstable mass transfer
Orbital period variations
Tidal synchronization
Irradiation

Research instruments:

TESS
Ultracam
Ondrejov-65cm
SAAO/SHOC
TLS-2m
SOAR/Goodman
ESO-NTT/XSHOOTER/FORS

About

Previous positions

PostDoc at University of Innsbruck
PostDoc at University of Tübingen
PostDoc at University of Potsdam

PhD

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, on Analysis of low-mass and high-mass systems after the common-envelope phase

Education

Diploma (Physics), Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg