Influence of turbulent perturbations in the magnetised atmospheres of Hot Jupiters, C. Soriano-Guerrero, D. Viganò, R. Perna, A. Elias-López, H. Beltz, 2025, A&A submitted
Searching for radio emission from stellar wind-magnetosphere interaction or co-rotation breakdown in brown dwarfs, R. Pirvu-Malanda, S. Kaur, D. Viganò, Ò. Morata et al., 2025, MNRAS submitted
Not listed here are other articles involving Daniele Viganò, not directly related with the project, but dealing with astrophysical magnetic fields.
Master & PhD thesis:
MSc thesis, Rebeca Pirvu Malanda, “The quest for radio emission from exoplanets and brown dwarfs”, July 2023, Master High-energy physics, astrophysics & cosmology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Supervisors: Daniele Viganò, Simranpreet Kaur
PhD thesis, Albert Elias López, “Numerical simulations of astrophysical dynamos and applications to giant planets”, 15 September 2025, UAB, Supervisors: Daniele Viganò, Fabio del Sordo
PhD thesis, Clàudia Soriano Guerrero, “MHD atmospheric simulations of hot Jupiters to study non-ideal effects and turbulence”, 17 November 2025, UAB, Supervisors: Daniele Viganò, Rosalba Perna
PhD thesis, Simranpreet Kaur, “Looking for circularly polarized radio emission: from sub‐stellar objects to young, low‐mass stars”, 5 March 2026, UAB, Supervisors: Daniele Viganò, Josep Miquel Girart
20/5/2021, Online Seminar, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute (New York, USA), DV: “Magnetic fields in Astrophysical bodies”
28/6/2021, EAS Meeting 2021 (Online), DV: Invited talk “How the most intense magnets shine (a magneto-thermal evolution review)”
7/9/2021, Nordic Dynamo seminar (online), Nordita, Stockholm (Sweden), DV: “Large Eddy simulations of magnetic field amplification”
29/11-3/12/2021, IAU Symposium 363 Neutron star Astrophysics at the Crossroads: Magnetars and the Multimessenger Revolution, L’Aquila (Italy) (online), DV: Invited talk “Neutron stars’ magnetic fields and magnetars’ magnerosphere”
21/1/2022, ICE Pizza seminar, Institute of Space Sciences (Barcelona), DV: “The quest for exoplanetary radio emission”
27/6-1/7/2022, EAS Meeting 2022, Valencia (Spain), DV: Talk “Astronomy and space sciences as means to relieve scholar segregation: the Magnet program in Catalonia”; SK, CSG, AEL: Attendees
4-8/7/2022, Conference “Rocky world II”, Oxford (UK), CSG: Breakout session co-organizer “Global circulation models in planetary atmospheres”; AEL: Breakout session co-organizer “Let’s build a planet: improving interior models”; SK, “Breakout session co-organizer “A Radio Voyage to Planetary Magnetism”
18-22/7/2022, Visit to Carlos Palenzuela’s group (UIB, Mallorca, Spain) for MHD simulations: CSG, DV
14-16/09/2022, Workshop DY2W01 “Dynamos in planets and stars”, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (UK), DV, Talk “Large eddy simulations of Magnetic field amplification”; FdS: Talk (Un)stable stellar magnetic fields and a model of stellar dynamo; AEL: Attendee
23-24/11/2022, Visit to Carlos Palenzuela’s group (UIB Mallorca, Spain): DV
10/1/2023, Astrocoffee seminar, University of Frankfurt (Germany), DV: “Magnetic field topology in neutron stars: from birth to mergers”
24-26/1/2023, Institutional Retreat, Montserrat (Barcelona), SK, CSG: shared talk “Radio emission and magnetism in exoplanets and brown dwarfs”
17/2/2023, Pizza seminar, Institute of Space Sciences Barcelona, CSG: “Hot Jupiters: why are they inflated?”
16-17/2/2023, Workshop: “X-ray tracking of magnetic field geometries in Accreting X-ray pulsars”, ESAC Madrid (Spain), DV: Invited talk “Magnetic field topology in (isolated) neutron stars”
13/3/2023, Pizza seminar, Institute of Space Sciences Barcelona, AEL: “Dynamo action and turbulence from localized random expansion waves”
20-24/3/2023, Planet Eslab 2023, ESTEC (the Netherlands), CSG: Poster “Magnetic field winding and turbulence in Hot Jupiters”
11/4/2023, Pizza seminar, Institute of Space Sciences Barcelona, SK: “Radio emissions from exoplanets and a young stellar object”
17-23/4/2023, School “Fluid Mechanics of Planets and Stars”, International Center for Mechanical Sciences (CSIM, Udine, Italy), AEL: Poster “Dynamo action and turbulence from localized random expansion waves”
27/4/2023, Colloquium, ESAC Madrid (Spain) online, DV: “Tangled and twisted: a journey through the magnetic field complexity in different astrophysical objects”
5-9/6/2023, CASA VLBI Workshop, Dwingeloo (Netherlands), SK: Attendee (online)
13-15/6/2023, 18th CARMENES Scientific Meeting, Heidelberg (Germany), SK: “Planetary-like radio emission from massive sub-stellar objects”; DV: Attendee (online)
26/7-3/8/2023: National Center of Radio Astronomy (Pune, India): SK: in-situ observations with GMRT and talk “Probing BHB2007-1: A Young Star hosting a Potential Substellar Companion Inducing a Gap in its Dis”
13/10/2023, Talk at the Cosmology Group, Scuola Normal Superiore, Pisa (Italy), AEL: “Vorticity and magnetic dynamo from subsonic expansion waves” (during a stay 4-14/10/2023)
27/11/2024, HONEST workshop, IAA Granada, Spain (online), DV: Invited talk “Modeling the spectra and light curves of synchro-curvature emission in pulsars”
5/12/2024, Talk in the Star and Plasma Astrophysics group, CCA, Flatiron Institute, New York (USA), AEL: “Gas giant planetary dynamos from 1D evolutionary profiles”
25-27/3/2025, CARMENES 20th Scientific Meeting, Hamburg/online: SK (Talk), DV, OM
7-11/4/2025, Visit to the radio astronomy group in the University of Valencia, SK: talk “Circularly polarized radio emission from scallop-shell stars: the case of J0508-21 and DG CVn”
16/5/2025, ICE Pizza Seminar, DV: “Hot, puffy Jupiters and their peculiar magnetism”
19/5-4/6/2025, Visit to CCA, Flatiron Institute, New York (USA), AEL, and talk (20/5): “Rossby number regime, convection suppression and dynamo in hot Jupiters”
16-20/6/2025, SKA Science meeting 2025, Götling (Germany), SK poster “Searching for radio emission from sub-stellar objects at Sub-GHz frequencies”
22-26/6/2025, PLATO-ESP 2025 conference, Marseille (France), SS (online) talk: “Hot Jupiter secrets: what extreme exoplanets teach us about alien climates”
7-11/7/2025, Detection and dynamics of exoplanets, Coimbra (Portugal), DV: Talk “Ohmic inflation of Hot Jupiters”, AEL: Poster “Planetary Dynamos in Evolving Cold Gas Giants”, CSG: Poster “Non-ideal MHD simulations of hot Jupiter atmospheres”
25/7-2/8/2025, The dynamic radio sky, Sydney (Australia), SK talk: “Polarized radio emission from scallop-shell stars: the cases of J0508-21 and DG CVn”
7-12/9/2025, EPSC-DPS joint meeting, Helsinki (Finland), AEL: Poster “Convection and dynamo in hot Jupiters”
IMAGINE aims at sharing knowledge at a large extent among citizens. In particular, since the beginning some of our members were the main promoters of the institutional participation and involvement to the programme Magnet, through the alliance with the “Gabriel Castellà i Raich” nursery/primary school in Igualada (Barcelona). Such project, which by now involves about 30% of the scientific members of ICE and the majority of the group members, aims at relieving the increasing problem of scholar segregation: the fact that families’ choices about which school they want to enrol their children often result in a tendency of segregate the least priviliged people in the same centers, making the education system within the same city very inhomogeneous in terms of socio-demographic distribution. This contributes further to the urban social segregation of migrant families and most vulnerable people. In the project, our institute is asked to provide an added value, through the implementation of activities related to space science and astronomy. This program has been or is currently at work in about 50 schools in Catalunya and usually such added values provided by the alliance with an excellence institution helps in relieve the scholar segregation in the municipality by attracting to the school also middle-class local families that would have chosen otherwise other centers.
Sample of activities done so far by our group members (representing about 70% of all activities done so far within the Magnet-ICE initiative):
6/9/2021, DV: Magnet kick-out meeting with the teacher and the other entities
22/10/2021, DV: Visit to the science Laboratory for 0-6 years old children in Manresa, to be replicated in the school
23/11/2021, DV, AEL, SK, CSG: Activities with Primary school children and Formation to the school teachers
14/2/2022, AEL: Q&A about the Moon with Primary school children
30/9/2022, DV, AEL, SK: Night of research 2022, observations with telescopes and activities
2/12/2022, AEL, CSG: Talk on martian ecosystems for 6th deg. primary school students
8/2/2023, SK: Women in Science, talk and debate
11/2/2023, SK, DV: Activities for children during the open day at the “Museu de la Pell” of Igualada
11/5/2023, DV, SK: Activities with kindergarten children about light and rainbow; FdS: observations with the Solar telescope
29/9/2023, SK: Night of research 2023, observations with telescopes and activities
28/11/2023, AEL, CSG: Talk about Galaxies to three classes of 9-12 years old children “Discovering Galaxies”
9/4/2025: DV: Solar observations with 5 years-old children
13/6/2025: Final meeting with all activities
Monthly meetings (internal to ICE and with the school) since 2022 (DV, CSG, SK, AEL)
OUTREACH
Popular outreach
SK is the co-editor and co-founder of the outreach media channel about Astrophysics, with millions followers: The Secrets of the Universe (Facebook)
Outreach book:
2021: Book for children (in Italian), “Storie Stellari”, (ed. Temperino Rosso, Italy), a set of tales telling the origin of the Solar system, seen through fantasy lenses. Authors: Daniele Viganò and Elena Borghese.
Various outreach activities:
3/11/2022, Astronomical Agrupation of Barcelona ASTER, CSG: Talk “Hot Jupiters”
8/2/2023, Vil·la Urània Civic center, Barcelona, CSG: Talk: “Exoplanets in the local Universe”
10/2/2023, Escola Parc de l’Aigua, Lleida (online), CSG: Talk “A travel to the Universe”, 100tífiques event with 6th year primary school students
14/2/2023, Sagrat Cor Primary School, Sarrià (Barcelona), CSG: Talk “Exoplanets: how can we discover them?”
7/3/2023, International Women day: embrace equity, Institute of Space Sciences, SK: Panelist in the round table
9/3/2023, High-complexity primary school “Pau Vila i Dinarés”, Terrassa (Barcelona), DV, CSG: Debate about “Women in Science” with 6th grade classes
4/5/2023, Day of Europe event, Escola “Pau Romeva” Barcelona, CSG: Talk “Exoplanets”
8/5/2023, Day of Europe event, High school “Les aimerigues”, Terrassa (Barcelona), DV: Talk to 17 years-old students: “Exoplanets and more things about the Universe”
11/5/2023, Day of Europe event, Primary school “Font Rosella”, Sabadell (Barcelona), AEL: Talk to 7-8 years old children: “Magnetic fields in the Solar System.”
31/5/2023, Cycle of Astronomy, Hiking Center (Centre Excursionista), Cardedeu (Barcelona), CSG: Talk “Exoplanets and Hot Jupiters”
11/7/2023, CSG, SK, DV, AEL: hosting one ACER award-winning high-school student with an explanation of the group’s activities
23/11/2023, SK: Outreach talk for primary and high school students (IE REC Comtal High School) “A Ride Through the Solar System and Beyond”
7/2/2024, Talk for the “Cientifiques” event (women in science), CSG: “The quest for exoplanets”, School Joan Sanmpera
13/2/2024, Talk, CSG: “Exoplanets: how do we discover them?”, High School Institut Numància
15/2/2024, Talk, CSG: “Chat with an astronomer”
19/2/2024, Talk, CSG: “Exoplanets and Hot Jupiters”, High School Sagrat Cor, Sarrià, Barcelona
3/5/2024, DV: Class about the universe (online) in 5th grade of primary school Yieschool, Vedano al Lambro (Italy)
28/5/2024, Talk, CSG: talk in Sabadell high school
13/6/2024, Talk, CSG: “Exoplanets: life beyond the Earth”, Civic Center Guinardó, Barcelona
25/7/2024, DV: Solar observations and activities about planets within the “Holidays in peace” (Vacaciones en paz) program of Saharaui children hosted by Spanish families, Vil·la Urània Civic Center, Barcelona
27/9/2024, Talk, CSG: “Hot Jupiters and the quest for them”, Researchers’ night, Auditori Barradas, L’Hospitalet del LLobregat
5/2/2025, Talk for “Ciencia en el barrio” series, CSG: “Exoplanets and Hot Jupiters”, Casal del Barri del Raval, Barcelona
11/2/2025, Talk for the “Cientifiques” event (women in science), CSG: “Searching exoplanets: discovering hot Jupiters”, 1st Middle school students, Institut Escola Anoia, Igualada (online)
17/2/2025, Talk for “Ciencia en el barrio” series, CSG: “Discovering exoplanets”, L’Hospitalet del LLobregat
13-14/3/2025, Science is wonderful, Tervuren (Belgium), activities with schools: FdS, SK, AEL
30/4/2025, Talk, AEL, “Planetary magnetism”, Vil·la Urània Civic Center, Barcelona
7/5/2025, DV: Institutional representation at the “Fira empreses UB 2025”, Barcelona
COMMUNITY SERVICE
since 2022, DV: Chair of the Institute of Space Sciences’ Teaching committee
since 2022, DV: Internal coordinator, thesis coordinator and lecturer in three different subjects of the Autonomous University of Barcelona Master on High-Energy Physics, Astrophysics & Cosmology ; FdS and AEL lecturers
since 2023, CSG: ICE PhD representative and organizers of PhD meetings
CSG: co-chair of the planetary group responsible for contributing to the Space Exploration Roadmap in the Space Generation Advisory Council
2023-2024, DV: Night Time Allocation Committee and DDT reviewer for the optical/infrared Canary Islands telescopes, vice-chair (one semester, 2023B) and chair (three semesters, 2024A, 2024B, 2025A) of the Stars and Planets panel.
Since 2024, DV: Reviewer of BSC supercomputing applications (since period 2024-3).
