Bérengère Parise works at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn. There, the French scientist leads her own research group. The 32-year-old wants to know how stars like our sun came into being.
Nagaraju Krishnappa works at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Katlenburg-Lindau. His specialty is the Sun's magnetic field.
Ilenia Battiato comes from Italy and is conducting research at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen. Trained as a physicist, she researches how fluids move in the earth's subsurface.
When she was 14, Mary Williams already knew she wanted to be an astronomer. Now, at 34, she's a researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam. She's trying to find out how galaxies develop.
From Bombay to Bremen: Dr. Mehul Bhatt is a long way from home, but is in any case involved in virtual worlds. He specializes in spatial cognition.