by Ludwig Scheibe | Jul 22, 2025 | Atmosphere modelling, Field of work, Interior modelling, Outreach, Peolpe behind the science, Planet detection
Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer is a German physicist and planetary scientist, specialised in the topics of planetary research, astrophysics and astronomy. Her scientific focus is in the detection and characterization of extrasolar planets, as well as exploring the habitability...
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 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...
by Tanja Schumann | Jun 18, 2025 | Field of work, Peolpe behind the science, Planet detection
Stéphane Udry is Professor of Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy of the University of Geneva. His main field of research is the detection and characterisation of exoplanets. With his team, they have contributed to a large fraction of the detections of the...
