Michael Küffmeier

I am a Carlsberg reintegration fellow at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen in Denmark. My research project "Embedded disks: exploring the nurseries of embedded disks" is financed by a grant provided by the Carlsberg foundation. Until September 2023, I was a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie global postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich-Garching financed by a grant of Horizon Europe 2020. Currently, I am particularly interested in investigating the effects of infall onto star-disk systems through so-called streamers, but I am also doing research to better constrain the role of (cosmic-ray) ionization. Besides working on modelling the formation phase of low-mass stars, I have been involved in the development of the DISPATCH code framework. My near-term goal is to model the processes in young disks while self-consistently taking into account for the protostellar environment.