Corps enseignant / Faculty members

Prof. Monika Lendl

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Monika Lendl

Professeure associée / Associate Professor

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Monika Lendl obtained her PhD from the University of Geneva in 2014 on the subject of exoplanet detection via the transit method. She held postdoctoral appointments at the University of Liège (Belgium), and the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 2018 to 2020, she led the GRAPPA project funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency, studying the stellar and planetary signals in high-precision photometry. She returned to the University of Geneva in 2019 and was nominated associate professor in 2024. Monika Lendl currently holds an SNF Eccellenza Professorial fellowship to study the climates of highly-irradiated planets (TITANIA: Time variability as a new window on exoplanet climates).  She is also member of theSwiss National Center of Competence PlanetS.

Monika Lendl specialises the discovery and the characterisation of exoplanets through high-precision photometry and low- to moderate-resolution spectroscopy. She serves as mission scientist of the CHEOPS space mission, and uses CHEOPS to study the atmospheres highly-irradiated planets. She continues to pursue exoplanet discovery projects using ground- and space-based transit surveys (NGTS, TESS), pushing towards the detection of long-period planets and planets orbiting young stars. Monika Lendl is looking forward to the start of PLATO, and is leading a consortium working group on using PLATO for the characterisation of exoplanet atmospheres.

Research Team

Current members:

Past members:

  • Dr. Matthew Battley (postdoctoral researcher, 2022 - 2024, now postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University, London)
  • Angeliki Psaridi (PhD student, 2020 - 2024, now CSIC junior postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Space Sciences in Barcelona)
  • Dr Solène Ulmer-Moll (postdoctoral researcher, 2020 - 2024, now Oort fellow at the University of Leiden)
  • Dr Laetitia Delrez (visiting postdoctoral researcher, 2020 - 2021, now coordinating the ecological transition of the Wallonia region in Belgium)
  • Dr Sophia Sulis (postdoctoral researcher, 2017 - 2020, now holding a CNAP permanent position at Laboratoire astrophysique de Marseille)
  • Dr Ines Juvan (PhD student, 2015 - 2018, now product manager at Novocarbo)

Corps enseignant / Faculty members