3 June: Matthaus Schulik

Speaker: Matthaus Schulik (Imperial College London)

Date: Wednesday 3 June 2026

Time: 15:00

Location: Physics 3.21 (Berry)

Lessons from escaping exoplanet atmospheres

Atmospheric escape shapes the early evolution of exoplanets and remains ongoing in the solar system.  Grace to the "Helium revolution" in observations of atmospheric escape, the community is now building a picture of escape throughout a large parameter space of exoplanet masses, radii and irradiation levels. Further, attempts of detecting atmospheric outflows in X-Rays and near-UV wavelengths yield constraining power on atmospheric properties hitherto not accessible, such as atmospheric Eddy mixing profiles. I will discuss the impact of those observations on our understanding of escape processes in the context of my mostly theoretical work and highlight some new developments on the code front. The presentation will close with a comment on how solar system escape theory inspired early work on exoplanet escape and how  the exoplanet community might be able to return this favour in the near-future.