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Interview with PlanetS Alumni – Kaustubh Hakim
Kaustubh Hakim is passionate about understanding the chemistry of exoplanets. He is currently a research staff member at KU Leuven and the Royal Observatory of Belgium. He did a long-term postdoc at the University of Bern between 2019 and 2023. Before that, he obtained a PhD in Astrophysics and Geochemistry from the University of Amsterdam […]
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Interview with PlanetS Alumni – Andrin Kessler
Andrin’s journey started with a PhD with PlanetS after studying Theoretical Physics at the University of Bern. For four years, he researched the formation of planets using computer models as part of the Theoretical Astrophysics Group in Bern. He has recently chosen to leave academia, but he is still working on modelling the real world. […]
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Interview with PlanetS Alumni – Caroline Haslebacher
A nice anecdote she shared with us? “I am the kind of person who asks what the ‘S’ in PlanetS stands before even officially becoming a member.” Dr. Caroline Haslebacher is passionate about fractures in Europa’s ice shell and applies deep learning models to study them. She graduated with a PhD in Physics from the […]
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Interview with PlanetS Alumni – Emily Rickman
Dr. Emily Rickman is an astrophysicist for the European Space Agency (ESA) based at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, USA. STScI is home to the mission operations for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) of which Dr. Rickman serves as a science team member. She was […]
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Hints of a possible atmosphere around a rocky exoplanet
Researchers using NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope may have detected an atmosphere surrounding 55 Cancri e, a rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for a rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar system. Brice-Olivier Demory, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Bern and member of the the National […]
Continue ReadingSIPS logo call for ideas
Thank you for your interest in proposing an idea for the SIPS logo. Here are a few guidelines on what the logo design must feature or not, and a few “rules” for this call. Logo guidelines The logo must feature the SIPS acronym. You must submit two drawings of the logo, with a version […]
Continue ReadingJuice mission movie screening – Bern get-together.
The Europlanet Society is organising a screening of Maarten Roos-Serote’s Film on the Juice Mission, on Wednesday 20th of March 2024, at 6PM CET. The screening will be followed by a Q&A Session with some members of the Juice team who participated in the mission including Juice’s Project scientist Olivier Witasse. If enough members of […]
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Four classes of planetary systems
Astronomers have long been aware that planetary systems are not necessarily structured like our solar system. Researchers from the Universities of Bern and Geneva, as well as from the National Centre of Competence in Research PlanetS, have now shown for the first time that there are in fact four types of planetary systems. In our […]
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