Manelli Marco, Mr.
ETH Zürich, Inst. f. Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Phase 3 - Domain A - Project 6, Welcome
Trainee
8039 Zürich
| Please give us a personal quote or a quote of a famous person (e.g. of Albert Einstein) that describes you and your life/work. | |
| Do your best. But like it! Like what you do, then you will do your best. – Katherine Johnson | |
| Please describe your job in only one sentence and tell us what the most important goal of this work is. | |
| I simulate how interstellar dust grains move through the solar system and I combine spacecraft data with models of the heliosphere’s plasma and magnetic field to estimate their sizes and other properties. The aim is to measure how our solar system interacts with nearby interstellar space using dust. Better models connect stardust to planet formation and to practical decisions for exploration. | |
| How did you get into this research/work field? | |
| I’m building a career in research, and space science gives me the kind of big, testable questions I want to work on long-term. This project lets me gain solid research experience while tackling problems that genuinely excite me. | |
| What would be the greatest discovery you would like to see in your life time? | |
| Clear evidence of life beyond Earth, even microbial life on Mars or in an ocean world or exoplanet, since it would reshape biology and our understanding of our place in the universe. | |
| You work for the NCCR PlanetS. What do you think will the NCCR enable you to do you couldn’t do without it? | |
| The network exposes me to diverse methods and viewpoints, which raises the quality bar for how I design and interpret my work. | |
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