The Host Institution is the Institute of Space Sciences (Institut de Ciències de l’Espai, ICE). Currently, ICE counts with about 130 members, equally distributed between staff members, engineers, post-doc fellows and PhD students. The areas of research vary, from engineering applied to several space missions to fundamental physics, from high-energy astronomy to theoretical astrophysics. ICE pertains to the Spanish National Research Council (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, CSIC). CSIC is the largest public institution dedicated to research in Spain and the third largest in Europe. ICE is also part of the Catalan Institute of Space Studies (Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya, IEEC). ICE is located in the campus of the Autonomous Univerisity of Barcelona (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, UAB) in Bellaterra, just outside Barcelona.
Within ICE, the project collaborates with worldwide recognized astronomers in the field of exoplanets, Ignasi Ribas (director of IEEC) and Guillem Anglada-Escudé lead a team of PhD students, post-doc and engineers. They are involved in different missions and projects regarding exoplanetary detection and methods. We also collaborate with Josep Miquel Girart, Álvaro Sánchez Monge and their group with the complementary topic of magnetic fields in proto-planetary systems, through observations with ALMA and VLA telescopes, among others. We also collaborate actively with other groups involved in astrophysical magnetism (pulsars and magnetars groups especially).
We have recently become part of the CARMENES collaboration, within which we are involved in the Star-Planet Interaction working group, led by Miguel Pérez-Torres (IAA-CSIC).
The project also counts on external collaborations, among which:
Rosalba Perna (Stony Brook University) for Hot Jupiter modeling
Devojyoti Kansabanik (Laurel, Maryland) and Mayank Narang (TIFR, India) for data analysis of GRMT
Salvador Curiel (UNAM Mexico) for VLBA observations
Víctor Béjar (IAC, Tenerife) for photometry, and a bunch of international experts on scallop-shell stars
Carlos Palenzuela & his UIB/IAC3 team for numerical methods
Mario Damasso (INAF Torino) for radio emission from planetary systems
Alexis Rebol-Salze (AEI Postdam), Deniz Soyeur (University of Zürich) for dynamo and MHD
We work on outreach with the Fundació Bofill, well recognized entity in Catalunya in the education field, on the Magnet program
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