Former Members

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.