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General Information

Name Paul Mollière
Position Staff scientist at MPIA

Research Interests

  • Atmospheric retrievals
    • Atmospheric structure and cloud properties of directly imaged planets and brown dwarfs
  • Atmospheric modeling
    • Radiative-convective equilibrium models
    • Multi-d spectral synthesis
  • Planet formation and the link to spectral observations

Education

  • 2017
    PhD in Astronomy
    University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2013
    Master of Advanced Study in Astrophysics
    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
    • Awarded with the Institute of Astronomy Prize.
  • 2011
    Bachelor of Science in Physics
    University of Heidelberg, Germany

Experience

  • 2022-now
    Staff scientist, group leader
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2019-2022
    Postdoc
    Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2017-2019
    Postdoc
    Leiden Observatory, Leiden, the Netherlands

Open Source Projects

  • 2019-now
    petitRADTRANS
    • Exoplanet spectral synthesis for everyone :) !
  • 2024-now
    easyCHEM
    • An easy-to-use tool for equilibrium chemistry calculations