Priv.-Doz. Dr. Eng. Geneviève Parmentier

Astronomisches Rechen-Institut,
Zentrum für Astronomie der Universität Heidelberg

           "Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
              Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)

      Fellowships / Tokens of International Recognition

      Research Interests and Papers

      Career and Higher Education

      Services and Memberships

      Invited Talks: A Sample

      Teaching

Recent News

• Cracking the relation between mass and 1P-star fraction of globular clusters:
  II. The masses in 1P and 2P stars as a second tool,
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, arxiv:2410.11950

• Cracking the relation between mass and 1P-star fraction of globular clusters:
  I. Present-day cluster masses as a first tool,
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, arxiv:2402.07979

• Invited Talk "Yield diagnostics from multiple populations in globular clusters",
  at Understanding the massive-star origin of our elements: A unified understanding of stellar yields, Heidelberg, September 2023

  Individual Research Grant ("Eigene Stelle") of the Deutsche Forchungsgemeinschaft (21.12.2022)

  Invited participation to the program "Star-Forming Clumps and Clustered Starbursts across Cosmic Time", Garching bei München, October 10-21, 2022

  Lund Observatory Källén Seminars for Young Astronomers (slides, September 2022)
  "Rebounding Cores to Build Star Cluster Multiple Populations"

  "Rebounding Cores to Build Star Cluster Multiple Populations",
  by Parmentier and Pasquali, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, arxiv:2110.14470

  Chalmers Astrophysics Colloquium (slides, October 2020; also Lund Observatory: March 2021 and March 2022)
  "The Density Gradient Inside Molecular-Gas Clumps as a Booster of their Star Formation Activity"

  "A new parameterization of the star formation rate-dense gas mass relation: embracing gas density gradients",
  by Parmentier and Pasquali, accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, arxiv:2009.10652

  Astronomisches Rechen-Institut Kolloquium (slides, July 2020)
  "The Density Gradient Inside Molecular-Gas Clumps as a Booster of their Star Formation Activity"

  "Molecular clumps disguising their star formation efficiency per freefall time: What we can do not to be fooled",
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, arxiv:2003.01613

  "The density gradient inside molecular-gas clumps as a booster of their star formation activity",
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal: arxiv:1911.04994

  SOC Member of IAU Symposium 351 "Star Clusters: from the Milky Way to the Early Universe", Bologna, May 27 - 31, 2019

  ESO Observing-Programmes-Committee panel member (somewhere in the past)

  14.01.2019: Press Release of Heidelberg University based on ApJ (2018) 863:171:
  Offene Sternhaufen leben länger als bislang angenommen - Open star clusters live longer than previously assumed
  Also in the Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung, 16-17.02.2019,

  "The star cluster survivability after gas expulsion is independent of the impact of the Galactic tidal field",
  3rd paper of my PhD student: Shukirgalieyv, Parmentier, Berczik & Just,
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal: arXiv:1903.09560

  Contributed Talk "Cluster Formation with a Constant Star Formation Efficiency per Free-Fall Time",
  at Star Cluster Formation: Mapping the first few Myrs (Grenoble, August 2018) and
  Contributed Talk "4 Star Formation Relations (+ Strengthened Cluster Survival) With One Single Model"
  at The Wonders of Star Formation, Edinburgh, September 2018 (slides: both talks merged in one single presentation)

  "The long-term evolution of star clusters formed with a centrally-peaked star-formation-efficiency profile",
  2nd paper of my PhD student: Shukirgalieyv, Parmentier, Just & Berczik,
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal: arXiv:1807.04755

  SOC member of workshop "Star Clusters around the Milky Way and in the Local Group (Observations, Dynamics, Modelling, Supercomputing)", Heidelberg, August 15 - 17, 2018

  Invited Lecturer at 11th HGSFP Winterschool,
  Obergurgl, Austria, January 26-30, 2018

  Invited Talk "Star Formation Relations in the Galactic Disc",
  at Modes of Star Formation: a Symposium in Honor of Jay Gallagher, Aspen (CO), September 2017 (slides)

  Invited Talk "Volume-density-driven star formation in the Galaxy",
  at High mass stars, their feedback and massive star clusters (Symposium to celebrate Guillermo Tenorio-Tagle's life-long contribution to Astrophysics), European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Prague, June 2017 (slides)

  Invited Talk "The Early Survival of (Globular) Star Clusters: Easier Than We Thought!",
  at Globular cluster systems and their host galaxies, Sexten, June 2017 (slides)

  "The impact of a star-formation efficiency profile on the evolution of open clusters",
  1st paper of my PhD student: Shukirgalieyv, Parmentier, Just & Berczik,
  accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics: arXiv:1706.03228

  "The dense-gas mass versus star formation rate relation: a misleading linearity?",
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal: arXiv:1705.10827

  Invited Lecturer at 10th HGSFP Winterschool,
  Obergurgl, Austria, January 27-31, 2017

  SOC co-Chair and main organizer of conference "Star Clusters: from Infancy to Teenagehood", Heidelberg, August 8 - 12, 2016

  "A cautionary note about composite Galactic star formation relations",
  accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal: arXiv:1605.07623

  15.07.2015: Erfolgreiche Habilitation an der Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie

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