Action Leadership and Management
Chair of the Action: Dr Catherine Walsh (University of Leeds, UK)
Vice-chair of the Action: Prof Anders Johansen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Grant Holder Scientific Representative: Prof Andrey Solov'yov (MBN Research Center gGmbH, Germany)
Grant Holder Manager: Dr Irina Solovyeva (MBN Research Center gGmbH, Germany)
Grant Awarding Coordinator: Dr Agata Karska (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland)
Science Communication Coordinator: Dr Lucy Evans (University of Leeds, UK)
Management Committee Members
A list of members of the Action management committee can be found on the PLANETS COST webpage.
Working Groups and Leadership
WG1: Planet formation: laboratory perspectives
Leader: Dr Jennifer Noble (CNRS, Aix Marseille University, France)
Co-leader: Dr Zuzana Kanuchova (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy Of Sciences, Slovakia)
WG2: Advancing planet formation models
Leader: Prof Bertram Bitsch (University College Cork, Ireland)
Co-leader: Dr Ondrej Chrenko (Charles University, Czechia)
WG3: Planet formation theory confronts observations
Leader: Dr Eleonora Bianchi (Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Italy)
Co-leader: Dr Lorenzo Pino (Istituto Nazionale Di Astrofisica, Italy)
WG4: Emerging habitable environments
Leader: Dr Dmitry Semenov (Max Planck Institute of Astronomy, Germany)
Co-leader: Prof Felipe Gomez-Gomez (Centro de Astrobiologia, Spain)
Working Group 4 (WG4) of the EU COST Action PLANETS aims to bring together experts who investigate the conditions and processes that lead to the emergence of habitable environments in space. Its main goals include tracing the origin and delivery pathways of water and organic molecules from interstellar clouds to protoplanetary disks and planets, understanding how these materials are processed by planetary environments and radiation, and exploring the potential links between planet formation, delivery mechanisms, and the synthesis of prebiotic molecules. WG4 is inherently interdisciplinary and aspires to foster stronger collaboration between theorists, observers, and experimentalists, as well as with other Working Groups of this COST Action. The main activities of WG4 include the organization of monthly virtual talks and international conferences/workshops on the topics of habitability, impacts, and delivery of organics, etc.
WG5 (Team A): Dissemination, public engagement, and outreach
Leader: Prof Kosmas Gazeas (University of Athens, Greece)
Co-leader: Dr Lucy Evans (University of Leeds, UK)
WG6 (Team B): Training the next generation of researchers
Leader: Prof Wolf Geppert (Stockholm University, Sweden)
Co-leader: Dr Akos Kereszturi (HUN-REN, Hungary)
WG7 (Team C): Towards the first database on planet-forming disks
Leader: Dr Nienke van der Marel (Leiden University, Netherlands)
Co-leader: Dr Miguel Vioque (European Southern Observatory, Germany)
