
Deputy Director, Group Leader
T +43 (316) 4120 - 601
Luca.Fossati(at)oeaw.ac.at
Room E.b.3
Publications
Refereed Articles: 258 (First Author: 30)
Citations in SCI: 7329 (Hirsch Index: 47)
Outreach
Research Interests
My research interests span from exoplanets to stars. In the exoplanet field my research concentrates mostly on the observational and theoretical study of planet atmospheric escape and of the star-planet interaction phenomenon. My research covers also the characterisation of planetary atmospheres. In the stellar field my research interests cover the photometric and spectroscopic characterisation of stellar atmospheres, the study of stellar evolution, and the detection of magnetic fields for stars across the whole Hertzsprung-Russell diagram.
Career Summary
| since 2022 | Deputy Director, Institut für Weltraumforschung, ÖAW, Austria |
| since 2015 | Group Leader, Institut für Weltraumforschung, ÖAW, Austria |
| since 2012 | Research visiting fellow, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK |
| 2014-2015 | Alexander von Humboldt fellow, Argelander Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 2012-2014 | Postdoc, Argelander Institut für Astronomie, University of Bonn, Germany |
| 2009-2012 | Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Open University, UK |
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