Biography

Hello, I am Katrin Lehle, a current PhD candidate at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Heidelberg University. Under the guidance of Dylan Nelson, I hold a position funded by the Hector-Fellow-Academy. Additionally, I am a fellow at the International Max Planck Research School for Astronomy and Cosmic Physics in Heidelberg. My research focus is centered on the gaseous intracluster medium (ICM) within galaxy clusters, with a particular emphasis on the central region and the cooling properties of the cores. To gain insight into the complex physics of galaxy clusters, I analyze cosmological galaxy formation simulations such as TNG-Cluster and IllustrisTNG.

Interests
  • Intracluster medium
  • (Cool-core) galaxy clusters
  • Cosmological hydrodynamical simulations
Education
  • PhD in Physics, ongoing

    Heidelberg University

  • MSc in Physics, 2022

    Heidelberg University

  • BSc in Physics, 2019

    Heidelberg University

Research

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Cool-core galaxy cluster
Demographics and metamorphosis of cool-core vs non-cool-core galaxy clusters.
Cool-core galaxy cluster
Master’s Thesis
Modelling Cosmic Reionization With Resummed Kinetic Field Theory
Master's Thesis
Bachelor’s Thesis
Dynamical Models for Centaurus A
Bachelor's Thesis

Recent Publications

A complete list of projects I have contributed to can be found here.

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(2025). Magnetic Fields in the Intracluster Medium with TNG-Cluster: Properties, Morphology, and Tangential Anisotropy. arXiv.

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(2025). X-Ray Cavities in TNG-Cluster: AGN Phenomena in the Full Cosmological Context. MNRAS.

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(2024). An Atlas of Gas Motions in the TNG-Cluster Simulation: From Cluster Cores to the Outskirts. A&A.

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(2024). ERGO-ML: A Continuous Organization of the X-ray Galaxy Cluster Population in TNG-Cluster with Contrastive Learning. arXiv.

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