appl. Prof. Dr. Ewald Müller

Research interests

• Supernovae

• Numerical hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics

• Relativistic hydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics

• Gravitational waves   (I maintain a Literature Catalog of GW from core-collapse supernovae)

• Astrophysical jets

Curriculum vitae

1970-1976	Study of general physics at the Technical University Darmstadt (THD)
1976	Physics diploma at the THD
1979	PhD in physics (Dr. rer. nat.) from the THD
1979-1981	Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA)
1981-1982	Fermi Fellow at the Enrico Fermi Institute of the University of Chicago
1982-1985	Postdoc at the MPA
1985-2017	Permanent scientific staff at the MPA
1994	Habilitation in theoretical astrophysics at the Technical University Munich (TUM)
1995-2017	Research group leader at the MPA
since 2000	Member of the physics faculty (Privatdozent) of the TUM
2003-2014	Project leader in the DFG-funded Transregional Collaborative Research Center 7 "Gravitational Wave Astronomy"
2008-2016	Project leader in the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence for Fundamental Physics at TUM "Origin and Structure of the Universe"
2012-2017	Project leader in the Max Planck Princeton Center for Fusion and Plasma Physics
since 2016	Extraordinary professor (appl. Prof.) at the TUM
since 9/017	Senior associate scientist at the MPA
1984-1986	Head of the user committee of the Rechenzentrum Garching (RZG)
1991-1997	Elected representative of the scientists of the MPA in the CPT section of the Max Planck Society
2006-2017	Head of the Works Council of the MPA
since 2015	Editor-in-chief of Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics
1993	Heinz Billing Prize for Scientific Computing (with H.-Th. Janka und M. Ruffert)

Teaching

As Dr. habil (since 1994), Privatdozent (since 2000) and extraordinary professor (appl. Prof. since 2016) I am regularly teaching at the Technical University München (TUM).

Lectures at TUM (some online available with password restricted access):

• Introduction to Theoretical Astrophysics (SS 2026 - 2014, 2012)
     (together with H.-Th. Janka)

• Exploding Stars (WS 2025/26, 2023/24, 2022/23, 2019/20, 2016/17, 2014/15, SS 2009, WS 2007/08)
    (together with H.-Th. Janka)

• Introduction to Computational Astrophysics (WS 2020/21, 2015/16, 2013/14)
    (together with H.-Th. Janka)

• Entstehtung und Nachweis von Gravitationswellen (WS 2024/25, SS 2013, WS 2009/10, 2003/04)

• Hydrodynamik: Grundlagen und numerische Verfahren (WS 2012/13, SS 2011, 2005, 2002, WS 2000/01)

• Weiße Zwerge, Neutronensterne und Schwarze Löcher (WS 2011/12, 2005/06, 2001/02, SS 1998)

• Grundlagen und Anwendungen hydrodynamischer Verfahren in der Astrophysik (WS 1998/99, 1996/97, SS 1994)
    (Goldene Kreide für die beste Spezialvorlesung in Physik an der TUM im WS 1998/99)

• Schwarze Löcher (WS 1999/2000)

• Computational Astrophysics (WS 2010/11, 2009/10, 2008/09)
    (together with F. Röpke)

• Nukleare Astropysik (SS 2003, 2000, WS 1997/98)
    (Goldene Kreide für die beste Spezialvorlesung in Physik an der TUM im WS 1997/98)

• Strukturbildung im Universum I: Physikalische Grundlagen und frühe Entwicklung (WS 1994/95)

• Strukturbildung im Universum II: Entstehung von Galaxien (SS 1995)

Lecture series at international schools and universities

• 2nd European Astrophysics School, Ponte de Lima, Portugal, September 1989
  "Supernovae: Observations, Theory, Models and Nucleosynthesis"

• Summer school on supernovae, , Les Houches, France, August 1991
  "Multi-dimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of Type I and Type II Supernov explosions"

• University of Pisa, Italy, March/April 1992
  "Computational Astrophysics"

• 6th European Astrophysics School, Thessaloniki, Greece, July 1993
  "Fundamentals of Gasdynamical Simulations"

• Nordic summer school on supernovae, neutron stars and pulsars, Abisko, Sweden, September1993
  "Theoretical Models of Type II Supernova Explosions"

• Summer school on Astrophysical Sources of Gravitational Radiation, Les Houches, France, September/October, 1995
  "Gravitational Waves from Core Collapse Supernovae"

• Saas-Fee Advanced Course 27, Computational Methods for Astrophysical Flow, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, March, 1997
  "Simulation of Astrophysical Fluid Flow"

• Inst. Henri Pioncare, Program on General Relativity, Gravitational Waves, Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Paris, France, November 2006
  "Supernovae and Gravitational Waves"

• International school on Astrophysical Relativity, Erice, Italy, June/July 2008
  "Core Collapse Supernovae: Gravitational Wave Signature and Magnetic Fields"

• IMPRS/Heidelberg, Astronomy Summer School on Compact Objects and Gravitational Waves, Heidelberg, Germany, September 2017
  "Basic Computational Fluid Dnamics, Numerical Approach to MHD, and Simulations of Relativistic Jets"

PhD students supervised:

Haakon Andresen, Rainer Birkl, Matteo Bugli, Harald Dimmelmeier, Michael Gabler,
Nico Hammer, Hans Higl, Tobias Leismann, Thomas Mädler, Petar Mimica,
Miroslav Mocak, Martin Obergaulinger, Florian Siebel, Tomasz Rembiasz,
Annop Wognwathanarat, Burkhard Zink

PhD students co-supervised:

Konstantinos Kifonidis, Dieter Kössl, Gerhard Mair, Ralph Mönchmeyer,
Max Ruffert, Sabine Schindler, Matthias Steinmetz, Thomas Zwerger

Publications

• ADS

Prof. Dr. Ewald Müller

MPA (Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik)
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1
D-85748 Garching
Germany
Tel= + 49 89 30000 2213 (Room 303)
E-mail: emueller _at_ mpa-garching.mpg.de

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