Lisa Brandenburg
Astrobiology and the search for extraterrestrial life. Homochirality as a universal biosignature. Terrestrial extremophiles as a proxy for life beyond Earth. Spectropolarimetry for detection of circular polarization.
Francis Zong Lang
Detection and characterization of temperate, Earth-sized exoplanets around ultra-cool stars, instrumentation on SAIT-EX telescope.
I am also interested in the BrainPol project - a novel visualization and intraoperative technique that uses spectropolarimetry to define tumor/healthy tissue boundaries.
Mathilda Fatton
Microbiology, first form of life and extremophiles associated to biosignatures on Earth and beyond Earth. Biosignatures database using spectro-polarimetry to detect homochirality associated to life
Lucas Patty
Polarimetry and spectroscopy, instrumentation and laboratory/field experiments, biosignatures and astrobiology, light scattering, surface characterization
Valentin Bickel
Planetary geomorphology, ice and volatiles, machine and deep learning, object detection, image processing, remote sensing, soil- and terramechanics, solar system exploration
Jan Can Akin
Yann Alibert
General theory of planetary system formation, internal structure Bayesian analysis, use of machine learning tools to analyse observations and simulations. Main author of the first and second versions of the 'Bern model' for planetary system formation. Involved in the CHEOPS and PLATO missions.
Dan Bower
Thermal and chemical evolution of planetary mantles, mantle convection, plate tectonics, early Earth, magma oceans, equations of state and material properties of planetary materials
Brice-Olivier Demory
Exoplanet detection and characterisation, planetary atmospheres, planetary dynamics, statistical analysis, stellar and brown-dwarf physics, ground-based instrumentation, data analysis, large surveys
Maria Drozdovskaya
Astrochemistry, star and planet formation, prestellar cores, protoplanetary disks, comets, complex organic molecules, PAHs, shocks, ALMA, JWST
Simon Grimm
N-body and orbital dynamics, exoplanet characterization, transit time variations and planet formation; opacity calculations, radiative transfer and fluid dynamics; numerical code development and high performance computing; GPU computing and training; GPU hardware and clusters
Kathryn Dawn Jones
Daniel Kitzmann
Atmospheric modelling of exoplanets and brown dwarfs, radiative transfer theory, clouds and chemistry, numerical code development, inversion techniques for exoplanet and brown dwarf atmospheres
Elspeth Lee
Niels Ligterink
Physical chemistry, astrochemistry, astrobiology, laboratory experiments and instrumentation, ice chemistry and physics, prebiotic molecules, ALMA, JWST
Anna Lüber
I’m working on applying atmospheric retrieval methods involving machine learning techniques to the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets. In doing so, I’m explicitly interested in combining Brown Dwarf theory with astrostatistics methods like Bayesian statistics.
Erik Andreas Meier Valdés
Pascal-Andreas Noti
I am working on atmospheric physics and dynamics, radiative transfer, temperature-dependant heat capacities, climate and weather simulation, forecasting, machine learning, numerical code development, general circulation model, high performance computing and GPU computing.
Susanne Wampfler
Astrochemistry, star and planet formation, isotopic fractionation, complex organic molecules, submillimeter astronomy, interferometry, ALMA, protostars, protoplanetary disks, comets, linking astrophysics with Solar System science and cosmochemistry, radiative transfer
