Division Seminars (WP/CSH Colloquium)

Prof. Kristina Kislyakova, University of Vienna, Austria
Evolution of terrestrial planets: guidelines to surviving atmospheric escape

Prof. Nicolas Cowan, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Lava Planets, Inside and Out

Dr. Skyla White, Center of Space and Habitability, UniBE, Switzerland
Chemical Kinetics as a Window into Prebiotic Plausibility

29.09.2026

Dr. Erica Jawin, Planetary Science Institute & University of Cambridge, UK
What will Artemis find at the Moon's south pole? Insights into polar highlands regolith structure as seen by Earth-based radar 

02.10.2026 (Friday)
Special Seminar

Dr. Nicolas Crouzet, CEA, France
Exploring the atmospheres of gas giant exoplanets at warm temperatures

Dr. Harrison Agrusa, Observatioire de la Côte D'Azur, France
What’s going on with Neptune’s Naiad?

Dr. habil. Alexey Potapov, Institute of Geosciences, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany
Physics and chemistry on the surface of cosmic dust

Prof. Simon Portegies Zwart, Leiden Observatory, The Netherlands
Chaos in the Solar System

Dr. Sean Jordan, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Lessons in habitability from Venus and K2-18b

Dr. Iva Laginja, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France
Building Darkness to See New Worlds: High-Contrast Imaging on the Road to Habitable Worlds

Dr. Claire Guimond, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
More than MgSiO3: What rocky planets are made of

Dr. Ligia F. Coelho, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
Detecting and Interpreting Biosignatures in the Era of the ELTs and HWO

Dr. Joe Stadler, ESO, Garching, Germany
Hunting Protoplanets: Molecular Line Observations and New Horizons in Planet Formation

Dr. Alex Cridland, LMU, München, Germany
Chemical population synthesis: the role of stellar photospheric abundance variations on the atmospheric C/O of hot Jupiters

Prof. Nathan Mayne, University of Exeter, UK
Abiotic & Biotic Climates

Prof. Mark McCaughrean, MPIA, Germany
JWST observations of galactic star-forming regions: discoveries & mysteries