Member of SCNAT

The Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy (SSAA) aims to promote the study and the research in the fields of astrophysics and astronomy, to develop in Switzerland mutual information and collaboration between astronomers and to support their joint scientific efforts.

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MERAC Awards 2016

Second Call

Pave the way to the James Webb Space Telescope era: multi-wavelength analysis of high-redshift galaxies to understand cosmic reionization and galaxy mass assembly
Stéphane de BARROS, University of Geneva

Volatile degassing from terrestrial planet precursors
Tim LICHTENBERG, ETH Zurich

First Call

Observing the dynamics of dark matter with strong and weak gravitational lensing
David HARVEY, EPFL

THOR: A New and Flexible 3D Dynamical Model to Explore Planetary Atmospheres
Joao Manuel MENDOÇA, University of Bern

The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey
Kyuseok OH, ETH Zurich