PhD thesis projects assigned to students

Join us to investigate the formation and evolution of rocky planets by simulating high temperature planetary processes in the lab: The ERC Starting Grant ELMO group is looking for a doctoral researcher to start a PhD project in fall 2026. The deadline to submit your application is 1 June 2026. Please register at the IMPRS PhD online application system to start preparing your application. more

The Planetary Plasma Environments group (PPE) has a strong heritage in the exploration of planetary magnetospheres and space plasma interactions throughout the solar system. It has contributed instruments to several past missions that flew-by or orbited Jupiter (Galileo, Cassini, Ulysses). The PPE participates in the JUICE mission by contributing hardware and scientific expertise to the Particle Environment Package (PEP). more

Understanding the formation and evolution of planets from micron-sized dust grains to fully-formed planets more

Experimental petrology or geochemistry more

A Bepi Colombo Mission to Mercury project (DLR funding) more

Cosmochemical investigations on the heritage of volatiles in Earth, Mars, and the Moon more

Numerical simulations to better understand the complete reversals of the geodynamo dipole more

The Sun’s planets and small objects have undergone substantial evolution. Deciphering the history of our cosmic home is not a simple task even though we now have access to a multitude of data gathered by space missions, remote observations, and laboratory studies of diverse samples. A significant fraction of materials available for the study of planetary bodies come from meteorites. more

Numerical simulations to explore how minor bodies like asteroids, comets and KBOs formed more

Statistically analyse the large set of grain coma data in Rosetta/OSIRIS images of comet 67P/C-G more

Development of various analysis tools, processing pipelines, and data enhancement procedures for ESA's upcoming space weather mission more

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Deciphering the magnetic origins of the Sun's hot corona: developing a framework for coronal heating by probing the elusive photosphere-corona connection more

Solar irradiance variability as seen by Mars general circulation models and comparison to HOPE data more

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The solar magnetic field is mostly axisymmetric at large-scale with latitudinal dynamo wave propagating from mid-latitudes towards the equator, as can be seen from observations of the solar cycle. Reproducing this pattern is one of the main demands that a numerical model has to satisfy. more

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Solar irradiance variability as seen by Mars general circulation models and comparison to HOPE data more

Establishing a new method to detect extra-solar planets more