… News
| 02/2026 | Our 2nd Mapping of the PLATO-HARPSpol Activity & MagnEtism Survey (PHAME-MAP^2) observation proposal led by Julián Alvarado-Gomez from the Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam was accepted. |
| 01/2026 | We welcome a new Master student to the group: Linnéa Skaar will be working on the impact of cosmic rays on the early Earth. |
| 10/2025 | We welcome a new Posdoctoral Fellow to the group: Dag Evensberget will model the atmospheric escape of (exo)planets. |
| 09/2025 | 12 million NOK from the Research Council of Norway for the project Galactic Recipe for Exo-Planets (GREP) for Stephanie Werner (role: Co-I, co-writer of the application) |
| 04/2025 | Vincent Kofman joined PHAB as a Researcher. |
| 01/2025 | Associate Professor for Planetary Sciences at the University of Oslo (Norway), new research group at the Centre for Planetary Habitability (PHAB) |
| 12/2024 | Our research on astrospheric modeling of cool stars (Herbst et al., 2020) was highlighted in NASA’s Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033 |
| 10/2024 | Although in the end not being funded, our first-time ERC Synergy Grant proposal Ice2Sun (Raimund Muscheler, Silvia Dalla, Mathew Owens, Konstantin Herbst) made it to the final round and got the final panel score: A (fully meets the ERC’s excellence criterion and is recommended for funding if sufficient funds are available) |
| 07/2024 | Re-election as Chair of Sub-Commission D1 (The Heliosphere) of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR, 2024-2028) and Vice-Chair of the Exoplanets/Astrobiology Commission of the AEF (2024-2028) |
| 04/2024 | Spring School „Stellar Space Weather and its impact on exoplanetary habitability“ (29/04 – 03/05), PI: Konstantin Herbst, Organization: Tanja Schumann, funding from SPP 1992) |
| 12/2023 | Union-Session (U42D) at AGU Fall Meeting (10.-15. Dec 2023 | San Francisco) on „Stormy Stars and Habitable Planets: Stellar Space Weather and Its Impact on Exoplanetary Habitability“ (Role: Primary convener, others: Dr. Tom A. Nordheim, and Dr. Lewis Dartnell, and Dr. Julián Alvarado-Goméz) |
| 05/2023 | Associate Editor of the Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate |
| 09/2021 | Nomination and Selection as Vice-Chair of the Exoplanets/Astrobiology Commission of the AEF (2021-2024) |
| 08/2021 | Due to a large number of Abstracts we have been granted a second Union session on „Cool stars and their influence on (exo)planetary habitability“ at the AGU Fall Meeting (13.-17. Dec 2021| New Orleans) |
| 07/2021 | Union/Innovative proposal related to Planetary Sciences for the AGU Fall Meeting (13.-17. Dec 2021| New Orleans) on „Cool stars and their influence on (exo)planetary habitability“ was selected as a virtually online session (Role: Primary convener, other conveners: Dr. Lee Grenfell and Dr. Athanasios Papaioannou) |
| 05/2021 | Invitation as convenor for two discussion sessions (D20 – GCR long-term modulation & D22 – Atmospheric effects of CR) of the upcoming 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference |
| 02/2021 | Nomination and Selection as Co-Chair of Comission Exoplaneten und Astrobiologie of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Extraterrestrische Forschung e.V. (AEF) |
| 02/2021 | Nomination and Selection as Chair of Sub-Commission D1 (The Heliosphere) of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR, 2021-2024) |
| 02/2021 | Our International Team on The Role of Solar and Stellar Energetic Particles On (Exo)Planetary Habitability (ETERNAL) at the Space Science Institute (ISSI | Bern) has been extended for one year due to the pandemic (in collaboration with Dr. Lee Grenfell | DLR Berlin) |
| 01/2021 | Our proposal on The Influence of Strong Stellar Particle Events and Galactic Cosmic Rays on Exoplanetary Atmospheres (INCREASE) has been granted by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) within the SPP 1992/2 (in collaboration with Dr. Lee Grenfell | DLR Berlin and Dr. Miriam Sinnhuber | KIT) |
| 01/2021 | PI nomination for the Joint South Africa-Germany Space Weather Studies During Solar Cycle 25 and Beyond funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has been accepted (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. R. Du Toit Strauss | NWU Potchefstroom and Dr. Frederic Effenberger | RUB) |
… Webinars
Outer Heliosphere and Very Local Interstellar Medium – Online Seminar – April 2023:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-zYLWjzMe1YNNo5rymKgWlLnpK_b49AM/view
Konstantin Herbst 