Header image: a rare picture of me actually giving a talk (at the prize colloquium)

This is a quick post to mention something that I’m really proud of — my paper won a prize!

The Ernst Patzer award is given to young astronomers in Heidelberg for the best publications in the preceeding year.

My catalogue of open clusters won the award owing to its scope and impact, with 7167 clusters in a single catalogue.

Figure: The distribution of clusters in the catalogue in Cartesian coordinates. The spiral arms of our galaxy clearly stand out amongst young clusters (lower left).