Team members

Team leaders

  • Laurent Gizon (lead)
    professor, MPI for Solar System Research, Germany
    Expertise: Helioseismology. Contributed to the first papers reporting the discovery and identification of solar inertial modes.
  • Rhita-Maria Ouazzani (co-lead)
    Associate astronomer, LIRA Observatoire de Paris-PSL, France
    Expertise: modeling of stellar pulsations including effect of rotation and magnetic field in 2D. Contributed to the first paper reporting the detection of pure inertial modes in stars.

Team experts

  • Victoria Antoci, senior researcher, DTU Technical University of Denmark
    Asteroseismic and spectrocopic data analysis of rotational and pulsational variables. Specialist of intermediate-mass stars (Leader of Kepler WG4: A- and F-type stars).
  • Yuto Bekki, postdoc, MPI for Solar System Research, Germany
    Realistic linear models of solar inertial modes; Nonlinear evolution of baroclinicaly unstable high-latitude modes.
  • Lisa Bugnet, assistant professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
    Modeling of stellar pulsations using perturbative approaches. Seismic inferences of magnetic fields in sellar interiors.
  • Nick Featherstone, lead scientist, SWRI Boulder, USA
    State-of-the-art numerical simulations of solar rotating magnetoconvection.
  • Hideyuki Hotta, professor, ISEE Nagoya, Japan
    State-of-the-art numerical simulations of solar rotating magnetoconvection.
  • Rekha Jain, reader, University of Sheffield, UK
    Analytical models of travelling modes of solar rotating convection.
  • Shravan Hanasoge, professor, TIFR Mumbai, India
    Mode-coupling helioseismology applied to the study of solar inertial modes.
  • Francois Lignières, directeur de recherche, IRAP, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
    Dynamics of stellar interiors; convection, rotation, magnetic field, and pulsations.
  • Hideyuki Saio, emeritus professor, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan
    Models of stellar inertial and gravito-inertial modes, including stability. Interpretation of Kepler photometry of intermediate-mass stars.
  • Masao Takata, assistant professor, University of Tokyo, Japan
    Models of stellar inertial and gravito-inertial modes. Seismic diagnostics based on gravito-inertial modes (including Rossby and pure inertial modes) in intermediate-mass stars.

Stellar members / Solar members