Star and Planet Formation

Team

Faculty

Postdocs

PhD students

Students

  • Carina Schönhacker
  • Leon Sereinig

  • Sudeshna Boro Saikia
    Former postdoc working on Solar/stellar winds, XUV activity, machine learning. Currently leader of Exoplanet Atmospheres group.
  • Kristina Kislyakova
    Former senior scientist working on exoplanetary habitability and atmosphere modelling. Currently leader of Solar System Evolution group.
  • Emmeleia Zampa
    Exchange student (2025), working on X-ray data analysis of planet hosting stars foreseen as targets of the upcoming ESA Ariel space telescope
  • Odysseas Dionatos
    Former Senior Postdoc working on protoplanetary disk observations and modeling; team member of the EU FP7 project DIANA (DiscAnalysis)
  • Yanina Metodieva
    Former Postdoc on EU H2020 project Exoplanets_A working on stellar activity across the electromagnetic spectrum, mainly in the radio and UV/X-ray wavelengths.
  • Tatiana Pavlidou
    Former Postdoc working on observational star formation. Main interests: low-mass young stellar objects (Class 0/I), hot corino sources, young stellar clusters.
  • Rodrigo Guadarrama
    Former PhD student (2020-2024) working on chemistry in protostellar disks.
  • Florian Ragossnig
    Former PhD student working on planetary primordial atmospheres in protoplanetary disks; Member of the PatH project.
  • Simon Schleich
    Former PhD student working on atmospheric retrieval using JWST observations. Currently a member of Exoplanet Atmospheres group.
  • Gwenaëlle Van Looveren
    Former PhD student working on modeling of (exo)planet atmosphere chemistry. Currently a member of the Solar System Evolution group.
  • Michael Bartel
    Former Master student working on the evolution of stellar rotation including magnetic fields.
  • Maria Hasler
    Former Master student (2022-2024) working on developing a neural network model that can simulate the extreme ultraviolet part of a stellar spectra through the technique of transfer learning.
  • Christoph Puchegger
    Former Master student (2022-2024) working on numerical simulations of gas giant atmospheres.
  • Carla Baldovin
    Saavedra Former Postdoc (2012-2017) working on observational analysis of protoplanetary disks, in particular photoevaporation induced by stellar high-energy radiation.
  • Florian Bauer
    Former Master student (2012-13) on exoplanets in Kepler data.
  • Ines Brott
    Former Postdoc (2010-2018) working on thermo-chemical model code for protoplanetary disks, based on PHOENIX/3D.
  • Michael Cecil
    Former Master student (2022-2023) working on magnetic fields in protostellar/protoplanetary disks and disk winds.
  • Cosima Eibensteiner
    Former Master student (2018-19) working on the disk and disk wind of DG Tau.
  • Vardan Elbakyan
    Exchange student (2018) working on the evolution of young accreting low-mass stars and brown dwarfs.
  • Luca Fabiani
    Exchange student (2019) working on stellar magnetic fields.
  • Bibiana Fichtinger
    Former PhD student working on observations of stellar radio emission of solar-type stars, using the JVLA and ALMA telescopes. Member of the PatH project.
  • Thorben Frey
    Former Master student (2022-2023) working on the evolution of exoplanetary atmospheres with the Kompot code.
  • Natalie Grasser
    Former Master student (2022-2023) working on the evolution of planetary atmospheres with the emphasis on the evolution of early Earth.
  • Fabian Haberhauer
    Former Master student (2022) working on spectroscopic analysis of cool stars.
  • Thomas Hajnik
    Former Master student (2022-2023) working on automated approaches to spectral analysis by combining conventional and machine learning methods.
  • Gopal Hazra
    Former Postdoc (2022) working on atmospheric escape from exoplanets.
  • Carina Heinreichsberger
    Former Master student (2021-2022) working on Venus atmosphere.
  • Christiane Helling
    Former Guest professor (2011) working on astrophysical dust and brown dwarfs.
  • David Hofer
    Former Master student (2022) working on the comparison between atmospheric models in the hydrostatic equilibrium of rocky planets/Earthlike.
  • Nicolas Iro
    Former Postdoc (2017-2022) working on atmospheric/climate models for (exo)planets.
  • Colin Johnstone
    Former Postdoc working with the PatH project. Main developer of The Kompot Code. Main interests: magnetohydrodynamical modelling of stellar winds, stellar magnetism, star-planet interactions, and star-disc interactions.
  • Inga Kamp
    Former Guest professor (2011) working on thermo-chemical disk modeling.
  • Hannah Kohlhofer
    Former Master student (2022-2023) working on atmospheric retrievals of synthetic Ariel spectra with machine learning.
  • Armin Liebhart
    Former PhD student (starting 2010) working on X-ray data and modeling of protoplanetary disks affected by stellar X-ray irradiation.
  • Theresa Lüftinger
    Former Senior Scientist (2016-2020) working on magnetic fields of cool and hot stars and interactions with planetary environments. Member of the PatH project.
  • Nina-Elisabeth Nemec 
    Former Master student (2014-2017) working on XUV spectra of low-mass stars.
  • Robert Pohl 
    Former Master student (2015-2016) working on chemical pathways in protoplanetary disks using ProDiMo.
  • Christian Rab Former PhD student (2013-2017) working on effects of high-energy radiation and particles on the thermo-chemical structure of protoplanetary disks.
  • Ines Ringseis Former
    Master student (2022-2023) working on protoplanetary disk modeling with TAPIR (perturbations by planets).
  • Markus Rosenberger
    Former Master student (2021) working on planetary atmosphere modeling.
  • Yury Sasunov
    Former Postdoc (2022) working on interactions between the Earth's magnetosphere and the solar wind.
  • Sophie Alma Schallert
    Former Master student (2019-2020) working on chemical analysis of protostars with the ALMA observatory.
  • Leander Schlarmann
    Former Master student (2021-2022) working on modelling Venus-like atmospheres.
  • Thomas Schobesberger
    Former Master student (2021) working on the Fermi bubbles of the Milky Way.
  • Aleksandr Skliarevskii
    Former Visiting PhD Student (2018-2021) working on dust dynamics in protostellar disks.
  • Arijane Sommeregger
    Former Master student (2022) working on protoplanetary atmosphere with TAPIR.
  • Laurenz Felix Steinbauer
    Former Master student (2022-2023) studying the structure of jets and outflows of binary protostars.
  • Maria Steinrück
    Former Master student (2015) working on protostellar disks.
  • Olga Stoyanovskaya
    Former Postdoc (2016) working on an Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research award.
  • Lucia Teng
    Exchange student (2020-21) working in group on planetary atmospheres.
  • Patricia Trinkl
    Former Master student (2012-13) working on hydrodynamic modeling of protoplanetary disks.
  • Lin Tu
    Former 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) working on stellar magnetic fields and their evolution with stellar rotation.
  • Cornelia Weber 
    Former Master student (2019-2020) working on exoplanetary atmospheres.
  • Peter Woitke
    Former Postdoc and main developer of the radiation thermo-chemical disk modelling code ProDiMo. PI of the EU FP7 DIANA-project.