Michael Yeung
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Post-doctoral researcher
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
November 2025 – Present
PhD student
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
September 2021 – October 2025
Studies of the Local Hot Bubble, eROSITA bubbles and diffuse X-ray background
Characterising the eROSITA instrumental background
Education
PhD in Astronomy
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
December 2021 – October 2025
Thesis topic: The Soft X-ray Background - The Local and the eROSITA bubbles Project supervisor: Dr Michael Freyberg
summa cum laude
Thesis
MPhil in Astrophysics
University of Hong Kong
September 2019 – August 2021
Thesis on two topics:
Inferring physical parameters of an ALMA Einstein Ring system
Optical spectroscopy of near the core of the Perseus Cluster with Keck/LRIS Supervisor: Dr Jeremy Lim
BSc in Astronomy & Physics
University of Hong Kong
September 2014 – August 2019
First Class Honours