LEAP - Life, Electricity, Atmosphere, Planets

30/09/2021

IWF Graz is offering a scientific coordinator position (f*m)

30/09/2021

The Space Research Institute Graz (Austrian Academy of Science) invites applications for the position of a Scientific Coordinator.

Deadline: 1 Nov 2021
Start: 1 January 2022

IWF Graz is offering a scientific coordinator position (f*m)

31/08/2021

The St Andrews Center for Exoplanet Science is very proud to present a literature Anthology as result of collaborations between writers, poets and exoplanet researchers. The Anthology project was initiated, lead and eventually edited by Phd cand. Emma Puranen.
http://www.guardbridgebooks.co.uk/shop/index.php?rt=product/product&product_id=146

Description of the publisher says:

What happens when scientists and writers collaborate in the creative process? Unique stories of distant planets, alien encounters, emergent life, and talking clouds, that’s what.

Writers paired with researchers from the University of St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science — experts in astrobiology, gravitational microlensing, Miller-Urey experiments, and exoplanet atmospheres. Each pair met several times: to get to know each other, discuss the researcher's work, and let ideas spark.

From these conversations emerged short stories, poems, and radio plays. Some are closely tied to the research work, others are flights of the imagination alighting from that point. Are are fascinating results of the mixing of ideas.

In the last two decades science has discovered an abundance of planetary systems. But science fiction writers have been writing about exoplanets for a good deal longer than scientists. Thus, science fiction is a crucial tool for learning about how humans might interact with these far-off planets. Both groups are addressing deeper questions — what is life, where did we come from, are we alone, what does it all mean — from different angles. See how both fields grow from collaborations such as found here.

Writers paired with researchers from the University of St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science — experts in astrobiology, gravitational microlensing, Miller-Urey experiments, and exoplanet atmospheres. Each pair met several times: to get to know each other, discuss the researcher's work, and let i...

31/08/2021

Exciting news:
We are moving to the Space Research Institut of the Austrian Academy of Science in Graz! Join us on a new adventure in a wonderful institut full of inspiration!

First job advertisement is out:
Tenure-Track position in exoplanet atmosphere modelling

12/03/2021

5th NoRCEL Conference 29 - 31 March 2021
http://www.nor-cel.com/Virtual-Conference-2021.html
and the St Andrews Centre for Exoplanet Science https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/exoplanets/index.html
present 2 public evening lectures:

29 March, 19:30 BST: Jorge Vago, European Space Agency
"Searching for Signs of Life on Mars with the ExoMars Rover"

30 March, 19:30 BST: Lowell Gustafson, Villanova University
"Origins of Life Within Big History: Meanings for Humanity"

Please join us in our interdisciplinary quest!

Further details will be published on the StA-CES webpage.

05/03/2021

CHAMELEON School 1
Introduction to data analysis techniques and virtual laboratories
22 - 25 March 2021

In addition to there search topics, we will also see first results from arts & science collaborations.

CHAMELEON School 1 Introduction to data analysis techniques and virtual laboratories Monday 22 March – Thursday 25 March 2021 4-day online meeting ▪ Lectures and tutorials on data analysis techniques, modelling of atmospheres and disks ▪ Exchange between science and arts Day 1, 22 March 2021: ...

17/01/2021

We are proud of our 2020 first-author PhD papers:

The atmospheres of rocky exoplanets. I. Outgassing of common rock and the stability of liquid water (Herbort et al. 2020, A&A 636) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A%26A...636A..71H/abstract
Mineral snowflakes on exoplanets and brown dwarfs. Effects of micro-porosity, size distributions, and particle shape (Samra et al. 2020, A&A 639) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020A%26A...639A.107S/abstract
MOVES IV. Modelling the influence of stellar XUV-flux, cosmic rays, and stellar energetic particles on the atmospheric composition of the hot Jupiter HD 189733b (Barth et al. 2020, MNRAS) https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.tmp...55B/abstract
Large-scale changes of the cloud coverage in the ∊ Indi Ba and Bb system (Hitchcock et al. 2020, MNRAS 495).
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020MNRAS.495.3881H/abstract

15/01/2021

St Andrews has opened a call for its Global Fellowship Scheme. This is a scheme that allows to spent up to one month at St Andrews.

Applicants should be recognised as a significant scholar in their field or an emerging leader who has made a contribution to original research that extends the frontier of knowledge.

28/12/2020

We are looking for a Research Fellow with interest in exoplanet atmosphere modelling, specifically radiative transfer and polarimetry.

Deadline: 15 Feb 2021

For all necessary details follow this link:
https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2638/0/284860/889/research-fellow-exoplanet-atmospheres-ar2467dd