New paper led by Joe Williams (@exeter.ac.uk), with our group among the co-authors ❄️ "Planetesimal Formation Across the Stellar Mass Spectrum and its Influence on Exoplanet-Inherited Volatile Budgets" Read the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20271 #Exoplanets #PlanetaryScience

Our latest paper has been accepted for publication! 🎉 We demonstrated that a single late infall event perturbing the outer disk can trigger the formation of multiple giant planets and ringed disk structures resembling those observed around young stars. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2607.18370

Excited to share a new paper on the formation of carbonaceous chondrite parent bodies led by @nereagurru.bsky.social, now published in The Astrophysical Journal. Read the press release: www.mps.mpg.de/8737419/news... #astronomy #SolarSystem

Different Meteorites, Same Birthplace

In the early days of the Solar System, the region just beyond Jupiter’s orbit was a breeding ground for planetesimals, the precursors of planets, asteroids, and comets. As new simulations show, over a...

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I’m happy to share my latest paper that is now available on arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2603.26876

Dust evolution during protoplanetary disk buildup enhances CO ice relative to water

Water ice is expected to be the dominant volatile component of bodies formed in the outer Solar System. However, recent observations of comets and trans-Neptunian objects suggest that the relative abu...

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Are you interested in protoplanetary disk substructures and their role in planet formation? Come to our session at the EAS meeting this year! Abstract submission is open until March 2nd! More info: eas.unige.ch/EAS_meeting/...

Are you looking for a postdoc position working on asteroids and comets? Would it help if it's in a beautiful place in southern France? If yes, then consider applying to the following position of my colleague Benoit Carry at the Observatory in Nice: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402212 #planetSci

Post-doc on properties of Solar system small bodies

The small bodies of our Solar system (comets and asteroids) are the remnants of the building blocs that accreted to form the planets. The suite of events that occurred during planet formation left pri...

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Almost 14 years ago, I started developing a Monte Carlo code for dust evolution in protoplanetary disks. The code is now publicly available! 🚀 This was possible thanks to the hard work of @turbulenthuman.bsky.social ‪and @nereagurru.bsky.social‬ 🙌

Take a look to learn more about the prospects of forming close-in exoplanets in-situ by pebble accretion!

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Excited to announce that my first first-author paper, on pebble accretion, has finally been accepted by #MNRAS! Extremely grateful to @astrojoanna.bsky.social and @turbulenthuman.bsky.social for having helped and guided me on this work for the past 2 years! arxiv.org/abs/2505.00090

Here's a selection of illustrations I've created for science press releases over the years. Please repost for me! And if you need to commission this kind of work, check my background. I'm your man. #SciArt #spaceart

I'm so grateful for this opportunity to expand my research group at @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social thanks to the Lise Meitner Excellence Program 🪐 www.mps.mpg.de/studying-pla...

Studying Planetary Systems in the Making

How do planets form from the disks of gas and dust that orbit around young stars? At the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany, Joanna Drążkowska is investigating this questi...

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The Max Planck Institute for Astronomy Summer Internships are open for applications! This is an opportunity for bachelor and masters students 🤩 If you are interested in doing some exoplanets research, contact me! More info: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i... 🔭🪐⭐🧪👩‍🔬

Summer internships

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Most of the planet formation models assume a Solar-type central star. But exoplanets form around stars of various masses and compositions. Do you want to work on exoplanet formation models? Apply now to join our group as a postdoctoral researcher next year!

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) in Exoplanets Formation

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What are the meteorites actually telling us about the Solar System formation? Are the meteorite parent bodies really left-over planetesimals? 🤔 If you would like to investigate this, apply to work with me as a Postdoctoral Researcher in Solar System Formation! The deadline is January 15th, 2025.

Postdoctoral Position (f/m/d) in Solar System formation

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At the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute of the University of Groningen we are looking for 2 PhD students in the fields of exoplanets and planetary science, see: aas.org/jobregister/... www.rug.nl/research/kap... Please share these positions with potentially interested students and your network. 🙂

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There are new PhD positions open in my group! Apply until October 1st to work on some cool projects in planet formation 🪐 More details here: www.mps.mpg.de/phd/planetar...

PhD Position in Planet Formation

The Planet Formation Group is offering PhD opportunities focused on understanding the formation and subsequent evolution of planets. Our research aims to build the first comprehensive model that conne...

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This may be the most important paper in the planet formation field in recent years - showing how to go from dust to a chain of massive planets 🟤🪐🔵🔵 If you are at #Exoplanets5 you can talk to the first author, Tommy Lau 😉 arxiv.org/abs/2406.12340 With @birnstiel.bsky.social @stammler.bsky.social

Sequential giant planet formation initiated by disc substructure

Planet formation models are necessary to understand the origins of diverse planetary systems. Circumstellar disc substructures have been proposed as preferred locations of planet formation but a...

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Are you thinking of going to EPSC this year? It's in Berlin and will surely be a blast. I'm organising session EXOA12 with @astrojoanna.bsky.social and others on "Protoplanetary disks and planetesimal formation". Abstract deadline: May 15. bit.ly/EPSC2024-EXO...

My institute is looking for a (female) director www.mps.mpg.de/director-nom...

Call for nominations for the position of Director

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Are you a PhD astronomer working outside academia? I want to hear about your job! 🔭🧪

On #InternationalWomensDay, here's a quick reminder how to retain more women in academia: - educate yourself on unconscious biases, - provide a safe work environment with no everyday sexism, - include us in decision making, - don't force us into service work that no one wants to do. #IWD2024

Submit your abstracts and travel grant requests for the European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2024 in Padova until March 4! I hope to see many of you there!

I had a great and intense week visiting CfA and MIT - you can watch my CfA colloquium here: www.youtube.com/live/tyfjG0R...

Joanna Drazkowska "The Emerging Theory of Planet Formation"

Joanna Drazkowska (Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research)"The Emerging Theory of Planet Formation"The classical theory of planet formation originate...

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📢 Another great opportunity to do research in planet formation: Sebastiaan Krijt is looking for a postdoc to join his group at the University of Exeter👇

📢 Job alert: PhD and postdoc positions in planet formation 🪐 My former boss @birnstiel.bsky.social just unleashed new openings in his group, and trust me when I say, working with him is like winning the job lottery!

Number of times I clicked on this app hoping it was the weather forecast: 1️⃣0️⃣

Astronomers of Bluesky! 🔭 I'm going to start distributing invite codes to astronomers again. Want to help out? Donate your invite codes here! forms.gle/sVi27swqamJK...

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Donate your codes to astronomers in need! I'll try and match them up to astronomers who request them.

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