Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta

Maximilian von Wietersheim-Kramsta

Postdoctoral researcher within the Institute for Computational Cosmology (ICC) and the Centre for Extragalactic Astronomy (CEA) at Durham University since April 2024.

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press

Durham astrophysicists’ key contributions to cosmic discoveries

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Recommended citation: "These observations are tremendously exciting: they demonstrate the capabilities of this precision instrument, while already pushing the cutting-edge in astrophysics. Among the results, it is astonishing that Euclid has already discovered 500 gravitational lens candidates substantially adding to the total of approximately 1,000 previously known lensed galaxies, which took over 40 years to discover! At this rate, Euclid is expected to observe 200,000 such objects over six years of the survey. These observations, together with the two billion galaxies Euclid will image, will help us understand how dark matter is distributed in the Universe and may allow us to uncover its nature. " - MvWK https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/03/euclid-q1-data-release/

Final findings from Kilo-Degree survey confirm cosmology model

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Recommended citation: "The Kilo-Degree Survey has said its last word on one of the most polarising tensions in cosmology! The final KiDS results reconcile early- and late-Universe measurements of the distribution of dark matter in the Universe. As we enter the golden era of gravitational lensing with surveys such as Euclid, this analysis drives the state-of-the-art of weak lensing cosmology and teaches us important lessons for the future." - MvWK https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/03/final-findings-from-kilo-degree-survey-confirm-cosmology-model/

publications

Dark energy and equivalence principle constraints from astrophysical tests of the stability of the fine-structure constant

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015

Recommended citation: Martins, C. J. A. P., Pinho, A. M. M., Alves, R. F. C., Pino, M., Rocha, C. I. S. A., & von Wietersheim, M. (2015). Dark energy and equivalence principle constraints from astrophysical tests of the stability of the fine-structure constant. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(08), 047. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2015/08/047

KiDS-1000 methodology: Modelling and inference for joint weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering analysis

Published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2020

Recommended citation: Joachimi, B., Lin, C. A., Asgari, M., Tröster, T., Heymans, C., Hildebrandt, H., ... & Zuntz, J. (2021). KiDS-1000 methodology: Modelling and inference for joint weak gravitational lensing and spectroscopic galaxy clustering analysis. Astronomy & Astrophysics, 646, A129. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202038831

6x2pt: Forecasting gains from joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses with spectroscopic-photometric galaxy cross-correlations

Published in Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024

Recommended citation: Johnston, H., Chisari, N. E., Joudaki, S., Reischke, R., Stölzner, B., Loureiro, A., ... & Zhang, Y. H. (2024). 6x2pt: Forecasting gains from joint weak lensing and galaxy clustering analyses with spectroscopic-photometric galaxy cross-correlations. arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17377. https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17377

Measuring the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation at ∼10^10 Solar masses, using space-based imaging of galaxy-galaxy strong lenses

Published in Submitted to MNRAS, 2025

Recommended citation: Wang, K., Cao, X., Li, R., Nightingale, J. W., He, Q., Amvrosiadis, A., Massey, R., von Wietersheim-Kramsta, M., ... & Ma, X. (2025). Measuring the Stellar-to-Halo Mass Relation at $\sim10^{10} $ Solar masses, using space-based imaging of galaxy-galaxy strong lenses. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.16139. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16139

talks

teaching

Workshops for the “Theoretical Physics 2” course

Tutorial, Durham University, Department of Physics, 2024

Convening and demonstrating of two weekly workshops as part of the 2nd-year undergraduate course “Theoretical Physics 2” (PHYS2631) over two terms. The course covers calculus of varations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, symmetry principles and advanced quantum theory. Each workshop involves demonstrating a problem set to approx. 40 students, and present the answers to the questions.