14:00

Welcome
Christiane Helling & Ruth-Sophie Taubner

14:10

Project Introduction by the 1^st-Year PhD Students (5+1 min)

• Andrei Hünemeyer Dullius: "Modelling Cloud Formation on WASP-39b as a Diffusion-Driven Process"
• Linda Giuliani: "Machine Learning and DFT methods to study CCN formation in gaseous exoplanets"
• Gabriel Maynard Hernandez: "Towards an all-sky ion composition detector for the Saturnian System"

14:30

Project Update by the senior PhD Students (8+2min)

• Greta Cappello: "Investigating Solar Wind Density Enhancements in Parker Solar Probe Observations Using Machine Learning"
• Georg Blüthner: "Evaluating the OMNI Database: Statistical Analysis of Time-Shifted L1 Data Versus Direct Near-Earth Solar Wind Observations"
• Elias Ehl: "High-resolution UV spectroscopy for laboratory astrophysics"
• Nidhi Bangera: "3D chemistry on exoplanets"
• Sandipan Borthakur: "Stellar composition and its link to planet formation"
• Nadine Trummer: "Telescope Automation for Photometric Space Debris Observations"
• Stephan Zivithal: "Sublimation-driven comet activity and the impact of sub-surface properties and composition"
• Sunny Laddha: "Optical Vector Magnetometer for Space Application"

16:00

World Café

• Ludmila Carone/ Veronika Witzke: "Navigating Academic Careers: Embracing Non‑Linear Paths "
• Amit Reza: "AI in Research: Essential Tool or Optional Extra?"
• Ruth-Sophie Taubner: "Interdisciplinarity in Science – blessing or curse?"
• Sierk van Terwisga: "Don't measure twice: new science from observatory archives"