January 2026 —January 2027

Parsing Galactic populations using advanced Machine Learning techniques

The Milky Way is composed of multiple stellar populations, each bearing unique chemical and dynamical signatures of the Galaxy’s formation and interaction history. Read more

February 2026 —August 2027

Unraveling the evolutionary history of the Milky Way with Galactic Archaeology (ArqueoGal)

ArqueoGal will produce the first all-sky, high-resolution chrono-chemo-kinematic map of the Milky Way disk extending beyond the solar neighborhood. This will enable us Read more

February 2025 —February 2031

Solving long-standing challenges in stellar physics with ultra-precise space-based photometry

Stars are essential to our understanding of the universe. Accurate characterisation of their properties requires that we have access to precise data and Read more

February 2025 —January 2031

Probing Earth siblings throughout the Milky Way

Are there other Earths in the Galaxy? What do they look like? Even though we have never been closer to answering these important Read more

February 2025 —February 2031

Shedding light on planetary system evolution and Galactic assembly with ultra-precise space-based photometry

Advances in stellar interiors physics and evolution have been made possible by asteroseismology, the study of stars by the observation of their natural, Read more

February 2024 —January 2025

Moving boundaries (PoleMotion)

During the last decades, there has been a rapid secular drift of the northern magnetic dip pole. This project will conduct an investigation Read more

May 2024 —April 2025

Space Debris Laboratory of the University of Coimbra (SpaDeLab)

SpaDeLab — Space Debris Laboratory of the University of Coimbra is an interdisciplinary project for the study of space debris, involving the Institute Read more

June 2023 —December 2023

AM Radio Signal Datalogger (AMANDA)

(Portuguese only) Com o aumento da dependência da nossa sociedade na tecnologia baseada no espaço, ações que tornem esta infraestrutura mais resiliente são Read more

June 2023 —August 2024

Space Weather Modeling: A Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere Physics-Based Approach

This project aims to develop an open-source physics-based model of the ionosphere-thermosphere system in order to enable real-time forecasting of neutral and charged Read more

August 2023 —July 2029

Unravelling the mystery of substellar object formation

There are at least 100 billion brown dwarfs and rogue planets in our galaxy. Several theories related to processes of their formation have Read more

Towards a comprehensive study of stars

Projects: Funded Project