by Tanja Schumann | Jul 8, 2025 | Atmosphere modelling, Field of work, Interior modelling, Peolpe behind the science
Kevin Heng is Chair Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics of Extrasolar Planets at the University Observatory Munich since 2022. He received his Ph.D degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007. After holding fellowships at the Institute for Advanced...
by Tanja Schumann | Jul 8, 2025 | Field of work, Peolpe behind the science
David Charbonneau is a Professor in the Department of Astronomy at Harvard University and an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His research goals are to detect and characterize planets orbiting other stars,...
by Tanja Schumann | Jul 8, 2025 | Field of work, Peolpe behind the science, Planet detection
Currently a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Warwick, previously holding positions at Queen’s University Belfast, Isaac Newton Group (La Palma), Liverpool John Moores University and St Andrews. Pollacco’s research over the last 15 years has been...
by Tanja Schumann | Jul 6, 2025 | Highlights EN, Press releases
The European space telescope PLATO of the European Space Agency (ESA), scheduled to start its search for Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars from 2027, has reached an important milestone. In the last few days, two main components of the spacecraft – the payload...
by Tanja Schumann | Jul 2, 2025 | Field of work, Peolpe behind the science
Ana Heras is an ESA and Plato mission project scientist. Please give a brief description of your duties at ESA. I work as Project Scientist of the PLATO mission, a space observatory that will search for planets similar in size to Earth orbiting stars like our Sun. My...
