Meet the team

For enquiries please write an email to dev@proteus-framework.org

Current developers

Tim Lichtenberg

Tim Lichtenberg

Kapteyn Staff

  • Planetary geoscience
  • Origin of life
  • Project architecture
Harrison Nicholls

Harrison Nicholls

Cambridge Postdoc

  • Planetary climates
  • Gas-phase chemistry
  • Numerical methods
Mariana Sastre

Mariana Sastre

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Exoplanet interior evolution
  • Mantle dynamics
  • Volatile partitioning
Emma Postolec

Emma Postolec

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Atmospheric escape
  • Volatile fractionation
  • JWST Observations
Marijn van Dijk

Marijn van Dijk

Kapteyn MSc Student

  • Tidal heating
  • Orbital evolution
  • Satellites & moons
Karen Stuitje

Karen Stuitje

Kapteyn MSc Student

  • Stellar evolution
  • Software testing
  • Documentation
Robb Calder

Robb Calder

Cambridge PhD Student

  • Mantle dynamics
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Sub-Neptune evolution
Ben Riegler

Ben Riegler

Helmholtz AI PhD Student

  • Bayesian inference
  • Meta-learning algorithms
  • Statistical methods
Lorenzo Cesario

Lorenzo Cesario

Kapteyn MSc Student

  • Telescope simulation
  • Radiative transfer
  • Retrieval methods
Emeline Decocq

Emeline Decocq

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Hadean Earth
  • Prebiotic chemistry
  • Ocean formation
Imre Kisvárdai

Imre Kisvárdai

Kapteyn PhD Student

  • Sub-Neptune evolution
  • Volatile outgassing
  • Planetary geophysics
Oliver Shorttle

Oliver Shorttle

Cambridge Staff

  • Planetary geology
  • Prebiotic chemistry
  • Planetary climate
Mara Attia

Mara Attia

Kapteyn Postdoc

  • Sub-Neptune evolution
  • Equations of state
  • Energy transport
Ioannis Panagiotou

Ioannis Panagiotou

Kapteyn MSc Student

  • Super-Earth evolution
  • Atmospheric chemistry
  • Ultra-hot planets
Patrick Bos

Patrick Bos

Kapteyn Senior Research Software Engineer

  • PROTEUS framework

Past contributors

Dan Bower

Dan Bower

ETH Zurich Staff

  • Mantle evolution
  • Thermodynamics & EOS
  • Volatile partitioning
Hanno Spreeuw

Hanno Spreeuw

Research Software Engineer

  • Code testing
  • User experience
  • Lookup tables
Laurent Soucasse

Laurent Soucasse

Research Software Engineer

  • Mantle dynamics
  • Stellar evolution
  • Code testing
Stef Smeets

Stef Smeets

Research Software Engineer

  • Code tests
  • User experience
  • Documentation
Mark Hammond

Mark Hammond

Oxford Research Fellow

  • Radiative transfer
  • Atmosphere dynamics
  • Surface reflectivity
Ray Pierrehumbert

Ray Pierrehumbert

MIT Staff

  • Planetary climates
  • Atmospheric dynamics
  • Thermodynamics
Flavia Pascal

Flavia Pascal

Cambridge MSc Student

  • Planet structure
  • Equations of state
  • Numerical methods