I am an assistant professor working at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna. I am accociated with the Star and Planet formation group. I am the lead coordinator of the ERASMUS+ programme at the Department of Astrophysics. In addition to that, I am leading an ERC Consolidator grant EASE (Early Earth, Venus, and Mars as Exoplanets).
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); C. R. O'Dell, Vanderbilt University.
We have for the first time successfully detected astrospheric X-ray signatures and calculated mass-loss-rates of three main sequence stars.
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 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 an assistant professor at the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna.
I have been a permanent researcher working in the Star and Planet formation group.
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.
