My PhD is entitled Atmospheres of rocky exoplanets and supervised by Peter Woitke and Aubrey L. Zerkle.
The interdisciplinary approach to the composition of Atmospheres of Rocky Exoplanets is combining knowledge from Astrophysics and Geology.
Therefore I am an interdisciplinary student of the School of Physics and Astronomy and School of Earth and Environmental Studies and part of the St Andrews Centre of Exoplanet Science.
Recently, I have joined Prof. Christiane Helling and Dr. Peter Woitke at their new positions at the Institut fuer Weltraumforschung at the Oesterreicshische Akademie der Wissenschaften in Graz.
This ne environment provides great opportunities for collaborations with further scientists at the IWF.
What have I done during my PhD?
Right after the beginning of my Studies I had the great opportunity to join the Cloud Academy in Les Houches, France. The discussions and activities during that conference lead to collaborations on modelling the atmosphere of the Hot Jupiter Hat-P-7b, especially focussing on the cloud formation. This resulted in a series of papers starting with Helling et al. 2019
The ongoing work on the atmospheric composition of rocky exoplanets lead to my first first author paper which focusses on the crust-atmosphere interaction layer. Special focus lies on the stability of liquid water on rocky exoplanets. The take away message here is: phyllosillicates have to be saturated, before liquid water can become thermodynamically stable
The paper can be found at Herbort et al. 2020
During the work for the PhD some abstracts for posters and talks can be found on ads. The full list of these publications can be found here.
Especially the talk at the Hypatia colloquium should be noted here. It can actually be reviewed here.
Oliver Herbort 