I am a Senior Scientist working at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna. I am a deputy head of the Star and Planet formation group, and the lead coordinator of the ERASMUS+ programme at the Department of Astrophysics.
I am a Senior Scientist working at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna. I am a deputy head of the Star and Planet formation group, and the lead coordinator of the ERASMUS+ programme at the Department of Astrophysics.
We calculate polar outflow escape rates from early Earth and study the survivability an evolution of the Earth's atmosphere.
Image: Dandouras et al. SSR, 2020
We suggested electromagnetic induction heating as an energy source inside rocky planets. This heating can lead exoplanets either to evolve towards a molten mantle planet, or to experience increased outgassing and volcanic activity. Since this heating mechanism is one of the few that can drive volcanic activity on massive Super-Earhts, it has profound implications for observations.
We suggested an additional possible plasma source to explain part of the phenomena observed for the transiting hot Jupiters WASP-12b and HD 189733b in their ultraviolet (UV) light curves. In the proposed scenario, material outgasses from the molten surface of Trojan satellites on tadpole orbits near the Lagrange points.
We have developed a novel indirect method to estimate magnetic moments of exoplanets based on the transit observations in the hydrogen Lyα line. For HD 209458b, our results support a planetary magnetic moment of 10% of the magnetic moment of Jupiter.
Image: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
At present, I am a permanent researcher working at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna.
I have been a postdoc in the Star and Planet formation group at the University of Vienna.
I have been a postdoc at the Space Reseach Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for almost five years in the exoplanetary reseach group of Helmut Lammer.
While doing my PhD at the University of Nizhny Novgorod, I have been working as a junior researcher at the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Before starting my PhD, I have been working as an engineer at the "Vremya-Ch" company, which main activities are development of high performance radio measurement equipment for time keeping and precision frequency comparison.