Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems and Detection of Habitable Worlds

Working Group Leader & Deputy

Ewa Szuszkiewicz

Working Group Leader

ewa.szuszkiewicz(at)usz.edu.pl

Full professor, CASA*, Institute of Physics, University of Szczecin, Poland

Research interests: origin and evolution of planetary systems, protoplanetary disks, exploration of Solar System, accretion disks around black holes and neutron stars

Giuseppe Murante

Deputy Working Group Leader

giuseppe.murante(at)inaf.it

Researcher, INAF-Trieste observatory

Research Interests: exoclimates; habitability; galactic habitable zone; numerical physics; galaxies and galaxy clusters

Working Group Members

Alessandro Sozzetti

alessandro.sozzetti(at)inaf.it

Senior Researcher, INAF, Italy

Research interests: extrasolar planets, detection and characterisation, stars, fundamental parameters, astrometry, spectroscopy

Amedeo Balbi

amedeo.balbi(at)roma2.infn.it

Associate Professor, Physics Department, University of Rome, Italy

Research interests: astrobiology, habitability, biosignatures, technosignatures

Erica Bisesi

Postdoctoral Researcher
Trieste Astronomical Observatory (INAF-OATs)
astrobiology, planetary climates, planetary atmospheres

Andjelka Kovačević

andjelka.kovacevic(at)matf.bg.ac.rs

Associate Professor, University of Belgrade-Faculty of Mathematics

extragalactic astronomy, mechanisms for life dispersal, nulling interfer-ometry of exoplanets

Antonio García Hernández

agh(at)ugr.es

Lecturer, University of Granada (Spain)

Stellar interiors, stellar evolution, asteroseismology, stellar rotation, planets around A-type stars

Bruno Ćurjurić

bcurjuric(at)gmail.com

galactic habitability, planetary habitability, planet formation, orbital dynamics

Bulent Acma

bacma(at)anadolu.edu.tr

Chair of Department-Anadolu University
Sustainability, Space-spatial economy, Natural resources and environmental economics, Economic Geography, Landscape economics, Environments and habitability

Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa

cinthia.ragone(at)unc.edu.ar

Investigador Independiente, Instituto de Astronomía Teórica y Experimental (IATE), CONICET-UNC, Argentina
hydro-simulations, semi-analytic models, galaxies, clusters of galaxies

Claudio Codella

claudio.codella(at)inaf.it

First Class Researcher – INAF, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze (Italy)
star formation, astrochemistry, protoplanetary disks, protostellar jets & winds

Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras

viudezmd(at)cab.inta-csic.es

Researcher at Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA

Planetary atmospheres, atmospheric dynamics & chemistry, radiative
transfer, modeling and simulation

Dimitra Atri

atri(at)nyu.edu

Group Leader, Mars Research Group, Center for Space Science, New York University, Abu Dhabi
Mars, planetary science, exoplanets, planetary habitability, astrobiology

Douglas Galante

douglas.galante(at)lnls.br

Researcher and beamline coordinator at the Brazilian Center for Research in Energy and Materials (CNPEM)
astrobiology, biosignatures, habitability, extremophiles, microfossils

Eleonora Bianchi

eleonora.bianchi(at)origins-cluster.de

Vera Rubin fellow at Excellence Cluster ORIGINS (Germany)
star formation, astrochemistry

Maria Elisabetta Palumbo

maria.palumbo(at)inaf.it

Research Director, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF), Osservatorio Astrofisico di Catania, Italy
Laboratory astrophysics, Astrobiology, Astrochemistry, Energetic processing, organic compounds

Felipe Gómez Gómez

felipe.gomez(at)cab.inta-csic.es

Head of the department of Planetary Geology and Habitability, Centro de Astrobiología - CAB (CSIC-INTA) INTA, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain
Mars, Habitability, Extremophiles, Earth Analogues, Atmospheres

Floris van der Tak

vdtak(at)sron.nl

SRON / U Groningen
: Astrochemistry – Exoplanet habitability – ISM physics and star formation – Molecular spectroscopy & radiative transfer

Francesco Amadori

francesco.amadori(at)inaf.it

Fellowship as software and scientific analyst at INAF-OATo
Exoplanets, Atmosphere, High-Resolution Spectroscopy

Franco Ferrari

franco.ferrari(at)usz.edu.pl

Professor, University of Szczecin
astrobiology, cosmic rays, polymer physics

Gian Luigi Granato

gian.granato(at)inaf.it

Astronomo Associato INAF-OATS (Italy) and Investigador correspondiente IATE – CONICET (Argentina)
semi-analytic models, simulations of galaxies and galaxy clusters formation, cosmic dust

Gianluca Lentini

gianluca.lentini(at)polimi.it

Researcher at Poliedra-Politecnico di Milano
climate; atmosphere; climate change; history of science; history of climatology

Giovanni Poggiali

giovanni.poggiali(at)inaf.it

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at LESIA-Observatoire de Paris and affiliated researcher at INAF-Astrophysical Observatory of Arcetri
star formation, planet formation, brown dwarfs, observational astronomy

Hervé Bouy

herve.bouy(at)u-bordeaux.fr

Full professor, Université de Bordeaux
star formation, planet formation, brown dwarfs, observational astronomy

Jean Duprat

Jean.Duprat(at)mnhn.fr

Directeur de Recherche 1^st class at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Cosmochemistry, astrophysics, interplanetary dust, Curation

Jennifer Sarah Russell

jennyrussellbaaa(at)aol.com

FRAS, FISM, MASB
Ethics of space exploration

Jihua Hao

hao(at)ustc.edu.cn

Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
early earth surface environments, origin and early evolution of life, water chemistry of icy moon oceans, photogeochemistry, and high temperature and pressure aqueous geochemistry.

Jorge Lillo-Box

jlillo(at)cab.inta-csic.es

Ramón y Cajal Fellow (Centro de Astrobiología, CAB, CSIC-INTA)
exoplanets, exotrojans, astrobiology, detection, characterization

José A. Caballero

caballero(at)cab.inta-csic.es

staff researcher, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
astronomical instrumentation – stars: binaries – stars: late-type – planetary systems – open clusters and associations

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Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez

trigo(at)ice.csic.es

Research scientist and Group leader, Institute of Space Sciences
(CSIC-IEEC)
Astrophysics, Cosmochemistry, Meteoritica, Planetary Sciences

Kai Finster

Kai.Finster(at)bio.au.dk

Professor of Astrobiology, Department of Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark
Extreme environment, Martian Surface processes, bacterial Life in the atmosphere, Biosignatures

Kevin Heng

Kevin.Heng(at)physik.lmu.de

Professor (Chair) of Theoretical Astrophysics
Faculty of Physics
Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU) of Munich
Atmospheres of exoplanets, Radiative transfer, Bayesian inference methods, Atmospheric chemistry, Geochemistry

Laura Silva

laura.silva(at)inaf.it

Research staff, INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Trieste, Italy, IFPU - Institute of Fundamental Physics of the Universe, Trieste, Italy
Astrobiology – Exoclimates and biosignatures – Planetary atmospheres -
Galaxy evolution – Radiative Transfer

Laurent Wiesenfeld

laurent.wiesenfeld(at)universite-paris-saclay.fr

CNRS Senior Investigator , Emeritus Astrochemistry
Astrochemistry, atmosphere chemistry, opacity, molecular spectroscopy

Lorenzo Biasiotti

lorenzo.biasiotti(at)inaf.it

PhD student, University of Trieste (Italy)
Space Weather, Star-Planet interaction, Kelvin-Helmholtz and Tearing Mode instabilities, Exoplanets, Climate Models

Dr. Melinda Soares-Furtado

mmsf(at)mit.edu

NASA Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow
stellar variability, planet detection/characterization, stellar age-dating, star-planet interactions

Michaël Gillon

Michael.gillon(at)uliege.be

FNRS Research Director, Astrobiology Research Unit, University of Liège
exoplanets, ultracool dwarfs, habitability, biosignatures

Muriel Gargaud

Muriel.gargaud(at)u-bordeaux.fr

Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique), Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, France
origin and evolution of life, early earth, life in the universe

Nathalie Carrasco

nathalie.carrasco(at)latmos.ipsl.fr

President of the ENS Paris-Saclay
Exoplanets, Titan, Early Earth, atmospheric chemistry

Nuno Miguel Cardoso Santos

nuno.santos(at)astro.up.pt

Professor and Researcher, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço/Departamento de Física e Astronomia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Exoplanet detection and characterization, star-planet connection

Nuria Huélamo

nhuelamo(at)cab.inta-csic.es

Research Scientist,
Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA
planet formation, circumstellar disks, young planets

Önder Bakır

bakironder(at)gmail.com

Researcher
Habitability, Exoplanets, Extraterrestial Life, Astrobiology, Space Radiation

Paolo Matteo Simonetti

paolo.simonetti(at)inaf.it

Postdoctoral Researcher at the Trieste Astronomical Observatory (INAF-OATs)
planetary atmospheres, planetary climates, radiative transfer simulations, atmospheric photochemistry, astrobiology

Paul Wesselius

paulwess(at)home.nl

Associate Professor Kapteyn Institute
interstellar medium, astrobiology

Romeo Pallikkara

romeopallikkara(at)gmail.com

Physics Undergraduate at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali
Galactic evolution, Exoplanets, AGN studies, Observational astronomy, Astrobiology and biosignatures

Simone Marchi

marchi(at)boulder.swri.edu

Staff Scientist, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA
Terrestrial planets and asteroids collisional evolution

Stefan TM Peters

s.peters(at)leibniz-lib.de

Head of the department for mineralogy,
Museum of Nature Hamburg (LIB)
isotope geochemistry, meteorites, early Earth, atmospheric chemistry, early Solar System

Tim Lichtenberg

tim.lichtenberg(at)rug.nl

Assistant Professor, Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen
exoplanets, planetary science: magma oceans, atmosphere formation, rocky exoplanets, planetary interiors , origin of life

Tomek Wiśniowski

tandem(at)mm.com.pl

Researcher at Space Research Center, Polish Academy of Sciences
planetology, astrobiology, exoplanets, planetary systems, stellar birth clusters

Vardan Adibekyan

vadibekyan(at)astro.up.pt

Researcher at Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (AI, Portugal)
Exoplanets, Stars, Spectroscopy, Composition

Yutong Shan

yutong.shan(at)geo.uio.no

Postdoc, Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB), University of Oslo
M dwarf characterization, planet formation

Zita Martins

Associate Professor.
Departamento de Engenharia Química,
Instituto Superior Técnico (IST)
Astrobiology, cosmochemistry, meteorites, comets, life-detection mission

Stavro L. Ivanovski

stavro.ivanovski(at)inaf.it

Senior Researcher at INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Trieste
protoplanetary discs, small bodies, dust dynamics, Origin of Life, MHD simulations