Projects
Waves and Flows: Linking the Solar Surface to the Corona. KU Leuven
Seismic Modelling of Eclipsing Binary Stars. KU Leuven
Stellar pulsations propagate through the star and carry with them information about the condition within the deep stellar interior. This information is crucial for fine-tuning models of stars and allows us to test if real stars obey the current theory of stellar structure and evolution. Two stars orbiting around a common centre of mass form a binary system. Under certain conditions, these systems allow us to derive masses and radii of their ...
Decoding the selfgenerated wave fluctuations and their role in the formation of the solar wind. KU Leuven
This project aims to clarify one challenging aspect in the process of formation of the solar wind, namely, the truly remarkable equipartition and the closely related minimum-energy conditions for the magnetic field energy and the kinetic energy of plasma particles, which is not fully understood nor explained theoretically or numerically. At high kinetic energies (large-beta plasma regime), confinement of the solar wind plasma to small ...
Tomographical astro-chemistry in evolved stars: probing the enrichment of the interstellar medium using the unique ESA-Herschel observations of evolved stars. KU Leuven
Coronal seismology in the Solar Dynamics Observatory era. KU Leuven
Structure of protoplanetary disks around intermediate-mass young stars. KU Leuven
Stars are born from clouds of gas and dust that collapse under gravity. Both direct and indirect observations indicate that this process is attended by the formation of a disk around the forming star. It is believed that the disk material represents the building blocks for planetary systems. In the same way, the Sun once was surrounded by a disk out of which the Earth and other planets originated.
In this PhD project, I focus on ...