Our group works at the interfaces between planetary geoscience, climate science, and exoplanet astronomy. 🌏🌋

More information on the MagmaWorlds positions in our group: www.formingworlds.space/erc-magmawor...

The application deadline will be 28 November 2025. Please share! ✉️ 🙂 🚀

Planetary-themed positions are spanning topics from protoplanetary disks/planet formation to the theory and observation of rocky and gaseous exoplanets.

My group seeks one PhD student (4 yrs) and one postdoctoral researcher (3 yrs) within the context of the ERC MagmaWorlds project.

By the way, it's a pretty good theory, it is/was falsifiable: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifi.... Not many theories are these days.

The concept considers *cumulative* XUV irradiation, Fig. 4 in the paper, and suggests that this XUV-induced escape turns planets above the "shoreline" in the plot attached into bare-rock planets. If additional variables/processes are required it loses its predictive power.

And:
arxiv.org/abs/2306.10100

[...] and instead evidence in favour of the idea that these planets host large scale magma oceans that lock substantial amounts of volatiles in the deep planetary interior:
arxiv.org/abs/2507.02656
arxiv.org/abs/2412.07285
arxiv.org/abs/2405.04057
arxiv.org/abs/2110.15069

Thank you! 😊