Anna Lena Schaible

Astronomer

I'm an Astronomy PhD researcher working at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing and Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, both in Heidelberg, Germany. I obtained my BSc and MSc in Physics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany.

Astronomy

My research is focused on galaxy evolution, gas kinematics and galactic outflows. I am interested in combining information from hydrodynamical cosmological simulations and integral field spectroscopic data from observations via simulation based inference. My interests include:

  • Gas kinematics in galaxies
  • Galactic outflows
  • Integral field spectroscopy
  • Creating mock observations from simulation data
  • Research software developement
  • Machine Learning for astrophysical questions
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    Education

    In 2021 I obtained my BSc degree from the University of Stuttgart. For my Bachelor thesis I did a research project at the Leibniz-Institue in Potsdam in the group of Lutz Wisotzki. I worked on a galactic outflow model for spectral mapping observations. You can find my results here.

    In 2023 I obtained my MSc degree from the University of Stuttgart. For my Master thesis I worked on the ionized gas kinematics of the extended Lyman-alpha Reference Sample (LARS) and how the ionized gas kinematics relate to the Lyman-alpha observables of the eLARS galaxies. You can find my results here. The thesis was supervied by E.C. Herenz. The thesis resulted in this publication.

    In 2023 I started my PhD in the AstroAI lab of Tobias Buck at the Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing and the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics in Heidelberg. I am an IMPRS-HD fellow and a member of the HGS MathComp. I am working on the software pipeline RUBIX (Reconstruction Using Bayesian Inference eXperiments) to forward model hydrodynamical simulations into synthetic integral field spectroscopic datacubes. The software and reseach results will be made public soon.

    Publications

  • Bachelor thesis
  • Master thesis
  • The Lyman Alpha Reference Sample XV. Relating Ionised Gas Kinematics with Lyman-alpha observables - Herenz et al. 2024: ADS, arXiv astro-ph,
  • Fast GPU-powered and auto-differentiable forward modeling of IFU data cubes - Cakir, Schaible and Buck 2024 (Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences, NeurIPS 2024)

    • Contact Me

    I'm always eager to discuss collaboration opportunities. If you'd like to get in touch, please send me an email!

    annalena.schaible (at) iwr.uni-heidelberg.de