Professor of Astrophysics

How do stars and planets form? How is material in stellar environments processed, and what are the conditions for the formation of life in young stellar systems? These are some of the questions we are addressing in my research group.
We are investigating implications of stellar magnetic activity on young stellar environments, focusing on high-energy radiation and high-energy particles. We are currently developing novel protostellar disk model codes making use of high-performance computer clusters. Furthermore, we are studying the environment of the "Young Sun" to understand the evolution of young planets and their atmospheres and magnetospheres, and implications for "habitability".
To obtain frontier data, we use large observatories such as XMM-Newton, Chandra, the Very Large Array, or the Spitzer Space Telescope, and will focus on ALMA, Herschel, and the James Webb Space Telescope in the future. These efforts are supported by our involvement in the latter projects, in particular collaborations within legacy-type Herschel projects and our direct involvement in the Mid InfraRed Instrument on JWST. We are further involved in several proposed or running observatories, specifically Plato (ESA), SPICA/SAFARI (JAXA/ESA), CoRoT (CNES, Europe, Brasil), and EChO (ESA, proposed M3 mission).

Phone:	+43 - 1 - 4277 53814
Fax:	+41 - 1 - 4277 9518
E-mail:	manuel.guedel&univie.ac.at
E-mail:	guedel&astro.phys.ethz.ch
Office:	Dept. Astrophysics 006.4