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 2019

Second Call

Galaxy evolution in clusters
Gianluca CASTIGNANI, EPFL

Frontiers of observational techniques to study atmospheric evolution of exoplanets
Leonardo DOS SANTOS, University of Geneva

The first stars in the first galaxies: concerning dwarfs with the reionization epoch
Mahsa SANATI, EPFL

Search for weak solar flare in an active region
Rohit SHARMA, FHNW

First Call

Probing the Epoch of Reionization with Lyman-α in the SPHINX simulation
Thibaut GAREL, University of Geneva

The Baryon Cycle driving Galaxy Evolution
Michele GINOLFI, University of Geneva

The Radius Anomaly of Hot Jupiters: Linking Observations and Theory
Paula SARKIS, University of Bern

Chiral MHD & the origin of cosmic magnetism
Jennifer SCHOBER, EPFL