Highlights
August 2023: StarPlan held the PhD course "Introduction to Cosmochemistry and Planet Formation" for 19 international PhD students at the Museum of Natural History in Copenhagen
June 2023: Anders Johansen and Urs Schäfer are part of a team that is awarded an interdisciplinary EU COST Action Network "PLANETS"
June 2023: Richard Löffler is awarded a network grant on "Goal-directed behavior and the origin of life” from the John Templeton Foundation
June 2023: Anders Johansen is elected as Foreign Member of the Royal Physiographic Society of Lund
January 2023: Anders Johansen is awarded a "Semper Ardens: Advance" grant from the Carlsberg Foundation, with co-Is Michiel Lambrechts, Elishevah van Kooten and Caroline Dorn
June 2022: Antoine Petit obtained a CNRS permanent researcher position to join the Cote d’Azur Observatory in Nice
May 2022: Linn Eriksson successsfully defends her PhD thesis at Lund Observatory
March 2022: Urs Schäfer and Anders Johansen are awarded 40 million CPU hours through the European PRACE network to calculate the Initial Mass Function of planetesimals at unprecedented precision using hydrodynamical simulations of the streaming instability
March 2022: Natascha Manger receives a two-year Marie Curie Fellowship for the Planet Formation Group at StarPlan/GLOBE
January 2022: Michiel Lambrechts is awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million EUR
November 2021: Quanta Magazine write an article on the ongoing controversy about whether our Earth formed rapidly (in 3-5 million years) by pebble accretion or slowly (over 100 million years) by collisions between smaller protoplanets
May 2021: Daohai Li obtains position as Assistant Professor at Beijing Normal University
May 2021: Anders Johansen is elected 'Foreign Member' of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences
April 2021: Noemi Schaffer successfully defends her PhD thesis at Lund Observatory
March 2021: Anders Johansen is awarded a DNRF Chair grant to build up the group at the University of Copenhagen
February 2021: The press release for the paper "A pebble accretion model for the formation the terrestrial planets in the Solar System" by Johansen et al. (2021) is published. The paper sets out a new model for the formation of Earth and the delivery of volatiles and is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.
January 2021: Katrin Ros starts as Editor of Populär Astronomi
August 2020: Beibei Liu obtains position as Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University
August 2020: Anders Johansen starts as Professor of Planetary Sciences and Planet Formation at the University of Copenhagen
May 2020: Matthäus Schulik successfully defends his PhD thesis at Lund Observatory
February 2020: Simona Pirani successfully defends her PhD thesis at Lund Observatory
February 2020: NASA’s New Horizons mission team publish three papers in Science concluding that the Kuiper belt object Arrokoth likely formed by the streaming instability - this becomes a breaking story on BBC News
December 2019: Anders Johansen is appointed as Wallenberg Scholar
September 2019: New evidence that asteroids form by the streaming instability is on the cover of Nature Astronomy
September 2019: The paper "A giant exoplanet orbiting a very-low-mass star challenges planet formation models" is published in Science with Alex Mustill and Anders Johansen as co-authors. The paper is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.
April 2019: Milestone paper on "Formation of planetary systems by pebble accretion and migration: How the radial pebble flux determines a terrestrial-planet or super-Earth growth mode" by Lambrechts et al. (2019) is published. This is the first time that the formation of super-Earths and terrestrial planets has been connected through the radial flux of pebbles.
March 2019: Anders Johansen is awarded the Göran Gustafsson Prize in Physics 2019 from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and the Göran Gustafsson Foundation.
March 2019: The press release for the paper "Consequences of planetary migration on the minor bodies of the early solar system" by Pirani et al. (2019) is published. The paper is first to find evidence that Jupiter migrated during its formation and is in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.