The Graz-Vienna Exoplanet Scientist Meeting (GVESM) is a biannual one day meeting series focused on strengthening connections between researchers working in Austria in the fields related to the science of exoplanets and their formation.
The seventh meeting was held on September 29th, 2026, at the Vienna Observatory.
| Start | Duration | Type | Speaker | Talk Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:00 | 55 min | Welcome coffee | ||
| Session I (10:55-12:20; 1 h 25 min) | ||||
| Chair: TBD | ||||
| 10:55 | 5 min | Welcome | Oliver Herbort | Welcome words |
| 11:00 | 15 min | Talk | Sierk van Terwiska | PUFFIN and ProDiMo: models of irradiated disks |
| 11:15 | 15 min | Talk | Peter Woitke | The oxygen coldtrap in pp-discs |
| 11:30 | 15 min | Talk | Sebastian Tramposch | TBD |
| 11:45 | 15 min | Talk | Andrei Hünemeyer | Investigating Cloud Formation in the Atmosphere of WASP-39b |
| 12:00 | 15 min | Talk | Shivam Joshi | Reinterpreting ALMA observations for Debris discs |
| 12:15 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Elke Pilat-Lohinger | Chaos indicators: Tools to distinguish between regular and chaotic motion |
| 12:20 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Kundan Kadam | Observing vortices in the inner protoplanetary disk |
| 12:25 | 50 min | Lunch | ||
| Session II (13:15-14:30; 1 h 15 min) | ||||
| Chair: TBD | ||||
| 13:15 | 15 min | Talk | Eduard Vorobyov | Planet formation at cosmic dawn |
| 13:30 | 15 min | Talk | Max Zimmermann | Terrestrial planet formation in tight binary star systems: Case studies of HD217958 and HD176051 |
| 13:45 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Cosima Breu | The Effect of Metallicity on the Atmospheres of Red Dwarfs |
| 13:50 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Kristina Kislyakova | The solar wind in time: X-ray detections of astrospheres of solar analogue stars with XMM-Newton |
| 13:55 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Andrea Bonfanti | The GRATIS tool: Assessing the systematic uncertainties of stellar evolutionary models |
| 14:00 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Gwenaëlle Van Looveren | Venus, our messy neighbour |
| 14:05 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Shijil Umer | Possibility of Banded Habitable Zones around M-Dwarf stars |
| 14:10 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Louis Müller | A Complete Thermal and Magnetic Evolution of Eart |
| 14:15 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Selma Abdukić | Chemistry in the Atmosphere of Venus |
| 14:20 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Jacob Schimpl | Cloud formation in exoplanet atmospheres with and without homogenous magnetic drag |
| 14:25 | 5 min | Flash Talk | Anuja Raorane | Non thermal escape of Venus atmosphere |
| 14:30 | 20 min | Coffee break | ||
| Session III (14:50-16:05; 1 h 15 min) | ||||
| Chair: TBD | ||||
| 14:50 | 15 min | Talk | Evelyn Macdonald | Observations of Venus-like exoplanets in reflected light |
| 15:05 | 15 min | Talk | Manuel Scherf | HESiOD - A New Project for "Modelling High-Energy Induced Sinks of N2-dominated Atmospheres |
| 15:20 | 15 min | Talk | Ivan Stanković | Does chemistry significantly shape rocky exoplanet atmospheres? |
| 15:35 | 15 min | Talk | Nils-Martin Robeling | Self-consistent 1D simulations of gas giants |
| 15:50 | 15 min | Talk | Vikas Soni | The Panchromatic Characterization of the Warm, Cloudy, Inflated WASP-107 b |
| 16:05 | 15 min | Coffee break | ||
| 16:20 | Funding splinter | |||
| 18:00 | Dinner | |||
Event Address: Vienna University Observatory, Türkenschanzstraße 17, 1180 Wien, Austria.
Information for attendees from Graz: For those who take public transport, we recommend to take the 7:41 am train departing from Graz Hbf at the latest, arriving into Wien Meidling at 10:00 am. After arriving at Wien Meidling, it is easiest to take U6 (direction Floridsdorf) to Währinger Strasse and then tram 40 (direction Gersthof) to Aumannplatz. Or follow Google Maps! It is about 30 min long journey from Wein Meidling to the Observatory.
The dinner is planned at 18:00, location TBD, and it will be confirmed during the meeting.
WHEN
Friday, 29 September 2026
WHERE
Vienna University Observatory
Türkenschanzstraße 17
1180 Wien, Austria
CONTACT
Kundan Kadam (IWF)
Oliver Herbort (Uni Wien)
