January 2023 —December 2024

Star-exoplanet compositional link: Towards realistic characterisation of terrestrial planets (EXO-TERRA)

Over the last decade, noticeable advances were made in the modelling of the internal properties of terrestrial planets. It is, for instance, known Read more

January 2023 —December 2024

Cool Stars in the near-Infrared (CSI)

This project takes advantage of our privileged access to the Guaranteed Time Observations (GTO) data from the NIRPS (Near InfraRed Planet Searcher) spectrograph Read more

January 2022 —June 2023

Portuguese Regional Ionosphere ModEl (PRIME)

This project aims at developing a prototype for an empirical model to forecast total electron content (TEC) variations across Portugal in response to Read more

December 2016 —March 2022

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 Read more

January 2017 —March 2022

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 Read more