HEAD OF GROUP

Manuel Güdel

Main interests: Star formation, exoplanets and habitability, astrophysical plasmas, high-energy astrophysics; large projects on exoplanetary habitability (FWF: PatH), exoplanetary atmospheres (EU H2020: ExoPLANETAS-A),
protoplanetary disks (EU FP7: DIANA); Co-PI or Co-I of ESA/NASA space missions JWST/MIRI, XMM-Newton/RGS, PLATO, CHEOPS (Science Team member), Ariel, Athena, Smile, eXTP; Co-I of ESO ELT instrumentation (METIS), and MARVEL.

manuel.guedel@univie.ac.at
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/manuel.guedel

DEPUTY HEAD OF GROUP

SENIOR SCIENTIST

Kristina Kislyakova

Permanent Senior Scientist working on exoplanetary habitability and atmosphere modelling.

kristina.kislyakova@univie.ac.at

POSTDOCS

Sudeshna Boro Saikia

Postdoc on own FWF Lise-Meitner project, Solar/stellar winds, XUV activity, machine learning.

sudeshna.boro.saikia@univie.ac.at
https://homepage.univie.ac.at/sudeshna.boro.saikia/

Odysseas Dionatos

Senior postdoc working on protoplanetary disk observations and modeling, team member of the EU FP7 project DIANA (DiscAnalysis), now FFG project leader; awarded an EU H2020 project on protostellar research, starting 2021.

odysseas.dionatos@univie.ac.at
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/odysseas.dionatos/

Oliver Herbort

Oliver Herbort is working as an Ariel fellow PostDoc at the University of Vienna. His work is focussing on atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. Focussing on how the surface conditions of rocky exoplanets can be constrained by future observations. Therefore he is investigating atmospheric compositions based on different elemental compositions and the stability with respect to atmospheric loss and photochemistry.
One of his main interests is the habitability of exoplanets.

oliver.herbort@univie.ac.at
https://oliverherbort.wordpress.com

Yanina Metodieva

Postdoc on EU H2020 project Exoplanets_A working on stellar activity across the electromagnetic spectrum, mainly in the radio and UV/X-ray wavelengths.

yanina.metodieva@univie.ac.at

Tatiana Pavlidou

Postdoc working on observational star formation. Main interests: low-mass young stellar objects (Class 0/I), hot corino sources, young stellar clusters.

tatiana.pavlidou@univie.ac.at

Nicole Pawellek

I am a postdoc working on debris discs – analogues of the Asteroid and Edgeworth Kuiper belt in our Solar System.
I investigate the mechanisms that drive planetary system formation and evolution by using collisional models and population analyses.
I do modelling of thermal emission and scattered light data applying optical dust properties of dust based on lab measurements.
Also, I am involved in different outreach projects.

nicole.pawellek@univie.ac.at
https://nicole-pawellek.jimdofree.com/

Eduard Vorobyov

Main interests: numerical hydrodynamics simulations of protostellar disk formation in the primordial and local Universe, formation of giant planets and brown dwarfs via disk gravitational fragmentation, accretion and luminosity bursts in young protostars, high performance computing.
Projects:

Formation and evolution of gas-dust protoplanetary disks. Dust growth and formation of planetesimals as the main building blocks of planets.
Formation of giant planets and brown dwarfs via gravitational instability and fragmentation of massive protoplanetary disks.
Variable accretion and luminosity bursts: theoretical mechanisms and their effects on disk evolution.
Development of high-performance magneto-hydrodynamical numerical codes. Parallel programming.

PhD students: Rodrigo Guadarrama (UniVie), Lukas Gehrig (UniVie).

eduard.vorobiev@univie.ac.at

PhD STUDENTS

Lukas Gehrig

PhD student, 2021-, works on protoplanetary disks and stellar spin-down

a01506750@unet.univie.ac.at

Rodrigo Guadarrama

PhD student 2020-, working on chemistry in protostellar disks.

rodrigo.guadarrama@univie.ac.at

James McKevitt

PhD student (2021 - Present) working on future science-centric L-class missions to the outer Solar System. Modelling protoplanetary disk formation with high performance computing.

jamesm20@univie.ac.at
www.conexresearch.com

Florian Ragossnig

PhD student, working on planetary primordial atmospheres in protoplanetary disks; Member of the PatH project.

florian.ragossnig@univie.ac.at
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/florian.ragossnig

Simon Schleich

PhD student working on atmospheric retrieval using JWST observations.

simon.schleich@univie.ac.at

Daniel Steiner

PhD student working on protoplanetary disk simulations

daniel.steiner@univie.ac.at

Gwenael Van Looveren

PhD student working on modeling of (exo)planet atmosphere chemistry.

gwenael.van.looveren@univie.ac.at

MASTERS STUDENTS

Michael Bartel

Master student, working on the evolution of stellar rotaiton including magnetic fields.

michael.bartel@cern.ch

Markus Hasenberger

Master student (2022 - Present), works on planetary atmosphere evolution, e.g., modeling Mars's atmoshere

Maria Hasler

Master student (2022 - Present) working on developing a neural network model that can simulate the extreme ultraviolet part of a stellar spectra through the technique of transfer learning.

a09971512@unet.univie.ac.at

Christoph Puchegger

Master student (2022 - Present), works on numerical simulations of gas giant atmospheres

a1106817@unet.univie.ac.at

VISITING STUDENTS, POSTDOCS, AND SENIORS (SCHOLARS, EXCHANGE, ETC)

FORMER MEMBERS

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Carla Baldovin Saavedra

Postdoc 2012-2017, working on observational analysis of protoplanetary disks, in particular photoevaporation induced by stellar high-energy radiation.

Florian Bauer

Master student 2012-13, on exoplanets in Kepler data.

Ines Brott

Postdoc 2010-2018, working on thermo-chemical model code for protoplanetary disks, based on PHOENIX/3D. Also strong supporter of public planetarium project.

Michael Cecil

Master student (2022-2023) , works on magnetic fields in protostellar/protoplanetary disks and disk winds

Cosima Eibensteiner

Master student 2018-19, working on the disk and disk wind of DG Tau. Published in A&A.

Vardan Elbakyan

Exchange student 2018, from Russia for 6 months working on the evolution of young accreting low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.

Luca Fabiani

Exchange student 2019, from Paris for 6 months working on stellar magnetic fields.

Bibiana Fichtinger

PhD student working on observations of stellar radio emission of solar-type stars, using the JVLA and ALMA telescopes.
My main interests are not only stellar winds, but also the connection/similiarities to the solar wind and the influence on planetary atmospheres.
Member of the PatH project.

Thorben Frey

Master student (2022 - 2023) working on the evolution of exoplanetary atmospheres with the Kompot code. Aiming to simulate the atmosphere of K2-18b.

Liliana Gracanin

Visiting scientist 2021.

Natalie Grasser

Master student (2022-2023 ) working on the evolution of planetary atmospheres with the emphasis of the evolution of early Earth.

Fabian Haberhauer

Master student 2022, working on spectroscopic analysis of cool stars.

Thomas Hajnik

Master student (2022 - 2023) working on automated approaches to spectral analysis by combining conventional and machine learning methods. Additionally, he is involved in the development of a data-driven method for estimating exoplanet properties, using various clustering algorithms.

Gopal Hazra

Postdoc (2022) working on atmospheric escape from exoplanets.

https://gopalhazra.github.io/

Carina Heinreichsberger

Master student (2021-2022), working on Venus atmosphere.

Christiane Helling

Guest professor in 2011, working on astrophysical dust and brown dwarfs.

David Hofer

Master student (2022 ), working on the comparison between amospheric models in the hydrostatic equilibrium of rocky planets/Earthlike.

Nicolas Iro

Postdoc (2017-2022) working on atmospheric/climate models for (exo)planets.

Colin Johnstone

Postdoc working with the PatH project. Main interests: magnetohydrodynamical modelling of stellar winds in single and binary star systems, stellar magnetism, stellar rotation, star-planet interactions, and star-disc interactions.

Inga Kamp

Guest professor in 2011, working on thermo-chemical disk modeling.

Hannah Kohlhofer

Master student (2022 - 2023), working on atmospheric retrievals of synthetic Ariel spectra with machine learning.

Armin Liebhart

PhD student starting 2010, working on X-ray data and modeling of protoplanetary disks affected by stellar X-ray irradiation.

Theresa Lüftinger

Senior Scientist 2016-2020, working on magnetic fields of cool and hot stars, their modeling via Zeeman/magnetic Doppler imaging and interactions with planetary environments. Member of the PatH project.

Nina-Elisabeth Nemec

Master student 2014-2017, working on XUV spectra of low-mass stars.
Interests also include the magnetic fields and winds of late-type stars. Bachelors and masters thesis in group.

Robert Pohl

Master student 2015-2016, working on chemical pathways in protoplanetary disks using ProDiMo chosing suitable pathways and to simplify the large number of equations.

Christian Rab

PhD student 2013-2017, working on effects of high-energy radiation and particles on the thermo-chemical structure of protoplanetary disks.

Ines Ringseis

Master student (2022-2023), works on protoplanetary disk modeling with TAPIR (perturbations by planets)

Markus Rosenberger

Master student 2021, works on planetary atmosphere modeling.

Yury Sasunov

Postdoc 2022, working on interactions between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind.

Sophie Alma Schallert

Master student 2019-2020, working on chemical analysis of protostars with the ALMA observatory.

Leander Schlarmann

Master student (2021-2022), working on modelling Venus-like atmospheres

Thomas Schobesberger

Master student 2021, works on the Fermi bubbles of the Milky Way.

Aleksandr Skliarevskii

Visitng PhD Student 2018-2021, from Russia first stay in 2018/19 (6 months), second stay in 2020-21 (6 months) on Ernst Mach stipend working on dust dynamics in protostellar disks.

Arijane Sommeregger

Master student 2022, working on protoplanetary atmosphere with TAPIR.

https://ufind.univie.ac.at/de/person.html?id=62285

Laurenz Felix Steinbauer

Master student (2022 - 2023), studying the structure of jets and outflows of binary protostars, and their relation to orbital parameters.

Maria Steinrück

Master student 2015, working on protostellar disks.

Olga Stoyanovskaya

Postdoc 2016, from Russia for 1 month on an Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research award.

Lucia Teng

Exchange student 2020-21, from Paris for 4 months working in group on planetary atmospheres.

Patricia Trinkl

Master student 2012-13, working on hydrodynamic modeling of protoplanetary disks.

Lin Tu

PhD student 2014-2017, working on star-planet interactions in the young solar system, mainly for upper atmospheric simulation and evolution.

Jan Vatant D’Ollone

Exchange student 2015, from Paris for 3 months working on stellar magnetic fields and their evolution with stellar rotation.

Cornelia Weber

Master student, 2019-2020, working on exoplanetary atmospheres.

Peter Woitke

Postdoc, one of the main developers of the radiation thermo-chemical disk modelling code ProDiMo. He is the PI of the EU FP7 DIANA-project.