The galaxy evolution group lead by Prof. Dominik Bomans investigates observationally the formation and evolution of galaxies, and especially the feedback processes leading to galactic outflows, Lyman conitnuum photon leaking, and the physics of circumgalactic medium of galaxies. We use a multi-wavelength approach, combining optical imaging and spectroscopy with data from X-ray, UV, near-, mid-, and far-infrared, as well as radio data. For this we use data from many ground-based optical & NIR observatories (e.g. ESO, LBT; SUBARU, and Keck), space-based observatories (e.g. HST, JWST, XMM-Newton, Chandra, WISE, HERSCHEL, Spitzer), and radio facilities (WSRT, eVLA, ATCA, ASKAP, MeerKAT, Effelsberg).
We are especially interested in low metallicity, low mass galaxies to study them at high spatial and spectral resolution serving as proxies for the physical processes in the high redshift universe.
For the detailed link of the physics of feedback processes to stellar evolution we also study instable massive star and their circumstellar nebulae (lead by Priv.-Doz. Kerstin Weis) and the astrospheres of run-away stars.

We are closely connected in many topics the Cosmology group (led be Prof. Hendrik Hildebrandt) and the research team Astronomy (lead by senior Professor Ralph-Juergen Dettmar) here at AIRUB. We also closely colloborate with the Multi-messenger group (led by Anna Franckowiak, and our theorical astrophysics groups led by Prof. Julia Tjus and Priv.-Doz. Horst Fichtner.
We are als member of the DFG funded collaborative research center CRC 1491.