This page lists funded projects (national funding, European funding, and cooperation projects) (co-)led by Group members, as well as missions/instruments in which we are strongly involved. Listed funded projects have a closing date no earlier than 1 Jan 2021 (for older projects, please follow this link). We identify those missions/instruments that are IA Flagship, i.e., in which IA has a leadership role.
Revealing the Milky Way with Gaia (MW-GAIA)
MW-GAIA will provide European leadership in understanding the Galaxy, its stars and planets, enhance the potential of the community in its scientific exploitation
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Breaking through outstanding problems in stellar evolution with ultra-precise space-based photometry (BreakStarS)
The last decade has witnessed a dramatic change in stellar astrophysics research as a result of the launch of space missions — such
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HIRES@ELT
HIRES (HIgh REsolution Spectrograph) is the planned high-resolution (R ~ 100,000) spectrograph for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) operating at visible and near-infrared
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SPIRou@CFHT
SPIRou (SPectropolarimètre InfraROUge) is a near-infrared spectropolarimeter and high-precision velocimeter for the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT). It is a near-infrared fiber-fed, double-pass cross-dispersed spectrograph, based
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PLATO
PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) is an M3 ESA mission expected to launch in 2026. It is designed to find and
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Past projects
Characterizing the smallest planet hosts
The determination of accurate and precise stellar parameters and chemical abundances of M dwarfs is of prime importance to the study of Galactic
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Zoom-In ON hIgh-mass Star forMation
The theory of high-mass star formation predicts specific features, namely, the formation of near-equal binary systems, radiative Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, and bloated photospheres. The
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