About Us

Meet the EASE Team @ the University of Vienna! 

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PI: Kristina Kislyakova 

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Kristina Kislyakova is an assistant professor at the University of Vienna and the PI of the EASE project with the main areas of expertise being:

  • Planetary habitability
  • Solar System Evolution
  • Magnetospheric Physics

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Evelyn Macdonald

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Evelyn Macdonald is a postdoc working on the EASE project. Her research interests include:

  • Habitability
  • 3D climate modelling
  • Connecting models to observations

Gwenaëlle Van Looveren

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Gwenaëlle Van Looveren is a postdoc working on the EASE Project, whose research interests include:

  • Habitability
  • Atmospheric loss
  • AI-aided modelling of upper atmospheres 

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Louis Müller

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Louis Müller is a PhD student of the EASE project. His expertise and research focus lies in:

  • Terrestrial interior structures
  • Thermal evolution and outgassing
  • Geodynamo evolution

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Anuja Raorane

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Anuja Raorane is a PhD student working on the EASE Project. Her research interests include

  • Exoplanet characterisation 
  • Habitability
  • Planet-disk interactions

Undergraduate students

  • Paul Frühwirth (MSc thesis: Habitability of Venusian clouds, supervisor: Kristina Kislyakova)
  • Gregor Adametz (BSc thesis: A New Constraint on the Interior Structure of Venus, supervisor: Louis Müller)
  • Patrick Gregor (BSc thesis: Climate simulations of Earth-like planets with ExoPlaSim, supervisor: Evelyn Macdonald)

Previous Members

  • Lisa Holzinger (BSc thesis: Influence of polarity switches on polar outflow from the Earth's cusps, supervisor: Kristina Kislyakova)