We aim to better understand the space environments and properties of planetary bodies in our solar system. For that matter we combine analytical models, numerical simulations and observations from spacecraft and telescopes.

Key Research Areas:

• Solar System Bodies and their Plasma Environments
• Exo-Oceans: Searching and Characterising Extraterrestrial Subsurface Oceans (within ERC-Advanced Grant EXO-OCEANS)
• Turbulence in Space Plasmas
• Searching UV aurora and characterizing the space environment of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets
• Planetary Atmospheres

Key Methods:

• Numerical Simulations
• Analytical Theory
• Telescope Observations
• Spacecraft Observations
• Time Series Analysis

Selected Publications:

• The Spatiotemporal Structure of Induced Magnetic Fields in Callisto's Plasma Environment Due to Their Propagation With MHD Modes, 2024, J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1029/2024JA033235
• Analysis of Enceladus's Time-variable Space Environment to Magnetically Sound its Interior, Planetary Science Journal, 2024, doi: 10.3847/PSJ/ad8130
• The search for a subsurface ocean in Ganymede with Hubble Space Telescope observations of its auroral ovals, 2015, doi:10.1002/2014JA020778
• Transient Water Vapor at Europa’s South Pole, 2014, doi: 10.1126/science.1247051

In the News:

• EOS 5/22/2019: Editor’s Higlights
• EOS 02/01/2019: Editors’ Highlights
• SPIEGEL ONLINE, 12.03.2015: Jupitermond Ganymed: Ozean unter dem Eis
• SPIEGEL ONLINE, 12.12.2013: Ozean unter dem Eis: Jupitermond Europa schießt Wasserfontänen ins All