PhD at the University of Bern working on exoplanetary atmospheres and brown dwarfs
I grew up in Switzerland, did my Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics with special qualification in Astronomy at the University in Bern. In March 2022 I started my PhD at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) of the University of Bern in the Exoplanet & Brown Darf Science group, lead by Prof. Dr. Kevin Heng.
I am a first-year PhD at the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern, in Switzerland. I’m currently working on the application of atmospheric retrieval methods involving machine learning techniques to the atmospheres of brown dwarfs and directly imaged exoplanets. In doing so, I’m explicitly interested in combining Brown Dwarf theory with astrostatistics methods like Bayesian statistics.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6960-0256
We performed a large suite of atmospheric retrievals on a curated sample of 19 brown dwarfs spanning the entire L-T spectral types to look for trends in their properties and investigate issues with the current techniques used to examine emission spectra.
University of Bern
Centre for Space and Habitability
Gesellschaftsstrasse 6
3012 Bern
Switzerland