Current developers

Tim Lichtenberg

Kapteyn Staff

  • Project architecture
  • Planetary geoscience
  • Origin of life

Harrison Nicholls

Cambridge Postdoc

  • Planetary climates
  • Gas-phase chemistry
  • Numerical methods

Mariana Sastre

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Exoplanet interior evolution
  • Mantle dynamics
  • Volatile partitioning

Emma Postolec

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Atmospheric escape
  • Volatile fractionation
  • JWST Observations

Marijn van Dijk

Kapteyn Research Assistant

  • Tidal heating
  • Orbital evolution
  • Satellites & moons

Karen Stuitje

Kapteyn Research Assistant

  • Stellar evolution
  • Software testing
  • Documentation

Robb Calder

Cambridge PhD Student

  • Mantle dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Sub-Neptune evolution

Flavia Pascal

Cambridge MSc Student

  • Planet structure
  • Equations of state
  • Numerical methods

Ben Riegler

Helmholtz AI PhD Student

  • Bayesian inference
  • Meta-learning algorithms
  • Statistical methods

Lorenzo Cesario

Kapteyn MSc Student

  • Telescope simulation
  • Radiative transfer
  • Retrieval methods

Emeline Decocq

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Hadean Earth
  • Prebiotic chemistry
  • Ocean formation

Imre Kisvárdai

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Sub-Neptune evolution
  • Volatile outgassing
  • Planetary geophysics


Past contributors

Dan Bower

ETH Zurich Staff

  • Mantle evolution
  • Thermodynamics & EOS
  • Volatile partitioning

Hanno Spreeuw

Research Software Engineer

  • Code testing
  • User experience
  • Lookup tables

Laurent Soucasse

Research Software Engineer

  • Mantle dynamics
  • Stellar evolution
  • Code testing

Stef Smeets

Research Software Engineer

  • Code tests
  • User experience
  • Documentation

Mark Hammond

Oxford Research Fellow

  • Radiative transfer
  • Atmosphere dynamics
  • Surface reflectivity

Ray Pierrehumbert

MIT Staff

  • Planetary climates
  • Atmospheric dynamics
  • Thermodynamics