Our Research Areas

Galactic

Research Interests:
radio spectroscopy, galactic structure, interstellar medium
Research Interests:
Milky Way formation and evolution; stellar and dark matter haloes; stellar streams; galactic dynamics; chemical evolution of galaxies

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Stars, Disks, & Exoplanets

Research Interests:
star-terrestrial planet interactions in our solar system and beyond; magnetic reconnection and turbulence; wave-particle interaction; physics-informed machine learning; high intensity laser-plasma interaction
Research Interests:
young stars, planet formation, circumstellar disk structure and evolution, multiwavelength variability, radiative transfer modeling
Research Interests:
high-precision observations of the endpoints of stars, planets, and binary systems, asteroseismology, time-domain astrophysics, space-based photometry, persistent gravitational wave sources
Research Interests:
exoplanets, low-mass stars, instrumentation
Research Interests:
computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and solar-like stars

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Extragalactic & Cosmology

Research Interests:
high-energy astrophysics, optical and NIR observational astronomy, clusters of galaxies, radio galaxies
Research Interests:
theoretical astrophysics, cosmology, computational astrophysics, galaxy formation & evolution, astrophysical applications of gravitational lensing
Research Interests:
cosmology, cosmological distance indicators, Type Ia supernovae, dark energy, dark matter, the Hubble Constant
Research Interests:
Milky Way formation and evolution; stellar and dark matter haloes; stellar streams; galactic dynamics; chemical evolution of galaxies
Research Interests:
active galactic nuclei, blazars, relativistic plasma jets, high energy astrophysics, multi-wavelength astronomy, very long baseline interferometry

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Planetary

Research Interests:
planetary atmospheres, UV astrophysics, FUV instruments for remote observations
Research Interests:
star-terrestrial planet interactions in our solar system and beyond; magnetic reconnection and turbulence; wave-particle interaction; physics-informed machine learning; high intensity laser-plasma interaction
Research Interests:
space plasma waves, Earth’s magnetospheric physics, solar-wind magnetosphere coupling, energetic particle precipitation, Jovian magnetosphere and aurora
Research Interests:
ionospheric physics, space physics, thermosphere/ionosphere plasma irregularities
Research Interests:
space physics, planetary atmospheres, observations and models
Research Interests:
modeling and observations of planetary atmospheres, with a focus on the upper atmospheres of the giant planets and on the coupling between atmospheres and the space environment
Research Interests:
atmospheres of Jupiter’s moons, comets, Mercury and our own Moon
Research Interests:
the behaviour of the martian upper atmosphere and ionosphere, analysis of accelerometer data

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Space Physics

Research Interests:
planetary atmospheres, UV astrophysics, FUV instruments for remote observations
Research Interests:
star-terrestrial planet interactions in our solar system and beyond; magnetic reconnection and turbulence; wave-particle interaction; physics-informed machine learning; high intensity laser-plasma interaction
Research Interests:
space plasma waves, Earth’s magnetospheric physics, solar-wind magnetosphere coupling, energetic particle precipitation, Jovian magnetosphere and aurora
Research Interests:
ionospheric physics, space physics, thermosphere/ionosphere plasma irregularities
Research Interests:
space physics, planetary atmospheres, observations and models
Research Interests:
modeling and observations of planetary atmospheres, with a focus on the upper atmospheres of the giant planets and on the coupling between atmospheres and the space environment
Research Interests:
computational and theoretical plasma physics in space and astrophysics; interaction of the solar system with the interstellar medium; solar wind; shocks in the lower corona, T-Tauri and solar-like stars
Research Interests:
computational and theoretical space plasma physics, dynamics of the ionosphere and solar atmosphere, particle-wave interactions in plasmas, physics of meteor trails

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Instrumentation

Research Interests:
planetary atmospheres, UV astrophysics, FUV instruments for remote observations
Research Interests:
exoplanets, low-mass stars, instrumentation

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