Cugno Gabriele, Dr.
Department of Astrophysics, Phase 3 – Domain B – Project 1, Universität Zürich, Welcome
PostDoc
8057 Zürich
+41 44 635 61 66
| 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. | |
| The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it (Neil deGrasse Tyson) | |
| Please describe your job in only one sentence and tell us what the most important goal of this work is. | |
| I aim to detect and characterize for the first time the emission coming from circumplanetary disks, little disks surrounding young giant planets while they form. These disks are the birthplace of moons, so we are effectively observing moon formation in action! | |
| How did you get into this research/work field? | |
| This field sits at the crossroads between different topics I worked on in the past (planet formation, disk, planetary atmospheres), and crucially it also requires high-contrast capabilities in the mid-IR, something I was the first to achieve with the new MRS instrument onboard JWST. | |
| What would be the greatest discovery you would like to see in your life time? | |
| The confident detection of a habitable exomoon. | |
| You work for the NCCR PlanetS. What do you think will the NCCR enable you to do you couldn’t do without it? | |
| I’m an observer at heart. The NCCR allows me to connect with colleagues working on the evolution of circumplanetary disks from a more theoretical prospective and with researchers focusing on the exploration of solar system moons. | |
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