Deutsche Gesellschaft für Planeten­forschung (DGP)



First Annual Meeting of the DGP 2026

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Schedule



Skeleton programme

TimeMonday 16.3.2026Tuesday 17.3.2026Wednesday 18.3.2026
09:00-09:30Keynote lectureKeynote lecture
09:30-10:00Orals (small bodies)Orals (instruments & lab work)
10:00-10:30Splinter sessions (TBD)
10:30-11:00Coffee break (poster viewing)
11:00-11:30Coffee and registrationOrals (planets & moons)Coffee break (poster viewing)
11:30-12:00Orals (instruments & lab work)
12:00-12:30Welcome and DGP overview
12:30-13:00Keynote lecture
13:00-13:30Flash talks: industry & institutesLunch break (self-organized or pretzels)
13:30-14:00Coffee break and pretzelsFinal plenary discussion
14:00-14:30Orals (exoplanets & planet formation)Orals (planets & moons)Farewell coffee and pretzels
14:30-15:00
15:00-15:30
15:30-16:00Keynote lectureCoffee break (poster viewing)
16:00-16:30Coffee break (poster viewing)Keynote lecture
16:30-17:00Flash talks: early-career (DGPEC)Orals (planets & moons)
17:00-17:30Orals (exoplanets & planet formation)
17:30-18:20Future of Planetary Sciences in Germany
18:20-18:30Short break (10 min)
18:30-19:15Poster session (45 min)DGP member meeting
19:15-19:30DGPEC event / icebreaker (45 min)
19:30-20:00
20:00Conference dinner at Ristorante Matera


Detailed oral and poster programme

  • The length of the contributed oral talks is 12 minutes (+ 3min Q&A).
  • Oral presentations can be shared from a laptop or uploaded to an FU-internal cloud system. Presenters will receive an e-mail with the upload link for their slides shortly before the conference.
  • Flash talk slides also need to be uploaded to the cloud system.
  • The official language of DGP 2026 is English. Simultaneous interpretation is not provided. It is therefore expected that authors can present their research in the English language.
  • For poster presentations, please bring your printed poster in A0 in portrait format (84 cm x 119 cm). There is no print service at the venue.


Monday
16/3 11:00-12:00Coffee and registration
16/3 12:00Session 1: Introduction, keynote lecture & flash talks (Chair: Tilman Spohn, DLR Berlin)
16/3 12:00-12:15Welcome (Heike Rauer, Bastian Gundlach)
16/3 12:15-12:30The German Society for Planetary Research (Rauer, H., Gundlach, B.)
16/3 12:30-13:00Keynote Solar System Science in the European Space Agency - where are we now and where are we going (Jörn Helbert)
16/3 13:00-13:30Flash Talks Industry / Institutes (2-3 min talks: Martin Pätzold - Rheinisches Institut für Umweltforschung; Lena Noack - FU Berlin; Kai Wünnemann - Museum für Naturkunde Berlin; Bastian Gundlach - Universität Münster; Matthias Grott - DLR Institute of Space Research; Tra-Mi Ho - DLR Institute of Space Systems; Thomas Müller - Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik; Christian Wöhler - TU Dortmund University; Cornelis Dullemond - Heidelberg University; Filippo Carboni - Albert-Ludwig Universität Freiburg; Jürgen Oberst - TU Berlin, Planetary Geodesy; Adalbert Ding - TU Berlin, Technische Physik; Sebastian Wolf - Kiel University, Astrophysics)
16/3 13:30-14:00Coffee break and pretzels
16/3 14:00Session 2 : Exoplanet and planet formation (Chair: Sebastian Wolf, Universität Kiel)
16/3 14:00-14:15Oxygen bistability and triple signature false positives in emission spectra of terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres (Benjamin Taysum)
16/3 14:15-14:30Exoplanets - Finding other Earths with the PLATO mission (Cabrera, Juan)
16/3 14:30-14:45Clustering the Exoplanet Database; Unraveling Hidden Patterns in Exoplanet Populations using Unsupervised Machine Learning Techniques (Hendrik Schmerling)
16/3 14:45-15:00Looking into the planetary interiors via their Love-numbers (Szilárd Csizmadia)
16/3 15:00-15:15How sensitive is PLATO in discovering new planets? (Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen)
16/3 15:15-15:30First results from the Warm Object Rossiter-McLaughlin Survey (WORMS) (Alexis Smith)
16/3 15:30-16:00Keynote Status des Programms Erforschung des Weltraums (Eberhard Bachem)
16/3 16:00-16:30Coffee break (poster viewing)
16/3 16:30-17:00Flash Talks early careers (DGPEC) (1 min talks)
16/3 17:00Session 3: Exoplanet and planet formation (Chair: Kristine Lam, DLR Berlin)
16/3 17:00-17:15Computing phase diagrams using a convex hull algorithm (C.P. Dullemond)
16/3 17:15-17:30Habitability and Life, with and without Plate Tectonics (Tilman Spohn)
16/3 17:30-17:45Ocean formation and habitability on sub-Neptune exoplanets (Hamish Innes)
16/3 17:45-18:00One for all, all for one: The TESS-HARPS-PFS-CHEOPS synergy reveals three mini-Neptunes transiting the late F-type star TOI-261. (Sascha Grziwa)
16/3 18:00-18:15Tracing the dynamical, interior, and atmospheric evolution of young sub-Neptune progenitors (Jean-Michel Desert)
16/3 18:15-18:30Machine-learning retrievals of rocky exoplanet interiors (Philipp Baumeister)
16/3 18:30-19:15Poster session (see list below)
16/3 19:15-20:00DGPEC event / icebreaker
Tuesday
17/3 09:00Session 4: Small bodies (Chair: Gerhard Wurm, Universität Duisburg)
17/3 09:00-09:30Keynote Activities on planetary science and planetary defense (Rolf Janovsky)
17/3 09:30-09:45Accurate radiometric size determination for sub-kilometer asteroids: 2024 YR4 and the planetary defense case (Thomas Müller)
17/3 09:45-10:00MiMiTracer: Constraining the Cosmic Origin of Micrometeorites (Carl W. Fenski)
17/3 10:00-10:15Trojan Asteroid Mass Determination using the Radio-Science Experiment onboard the LUCY Mission (Matthias Hahn)
17/3 10:15-10:30Pre-perihelion imaging polarimetry of dust eruption events on comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) (Christian Wöhler)
17/3 10:30-11:00Coffee break (poster viewing)
17/3 11:00Session 5: Planets and moons (Chair: Christian Renggli, MPS)
17/3 11:00-11:15Investigating the reasons behind the inter-annual variability of Global Dust Storm occurrence on Mars (Demetrius Ramette)
17/3 11:15-11:30Coupled Surface–Atmosphere Investigations of Venus with the VenSpec Suite aboard ESA’s EnVision Mission (Giulia Alemanno)
17/3 11:30-11:45Cassini CDA observes compositional diversity in Enceladus' cryo-volcanic ice grains from slow freezing and fragmentation of large oceanic droplets (Frank Postberg)
17/3 11:45-12:00Analysis of Venusian Coronae Evolution: Evidence from Remote Sensing and 3D Scaled Laboratory Experiments (Oguzcan Karagoz)
17/3 12:00-12:15Redox Changes in Degassing Magma and Their Effect on Planetary Atmospheres (Caroline Brachmann)
17/3 12:15-12:30Monturaqui Impact Crater: A showpiece for small crater formation processes and habitability changes (Alessandro Airo)
17/3 12:30-12:45Planet Four: Inter- and Intra-annual Variability of Dark Regolith on Ice Coverage at the Martian South Polar Region (K.-Michael Aye)
17/3 12:45-13:00Thermal and Compositional Effects of Impacts on Europa’s Ice Shell (Davide Izzo )
17/3 13:00-14:00Lunch break
17/3 14:00Session 6: Planets and moons (Chair: Frank Postberg, FU Berlin)
17/3 14:00-14:15Gravity-driven tectonics along the Martian dichotomy: insights from remote sensing mapping, kinematic and numerical modelling (Filippo Carboni)
17/3 14:15-14:30Spectral Characterization of Mercury Analogs based on Machine learning for MERTIS (Nimisha Verma)
17/3 14:30-14:45On the Origin and Evolution of Aromatic Compounds in Ice Grains Emitted from Enceladus (Nozair Khawaja)
17/3 14:45-15:00Thermal anomalies on Mercury’s surface observed by MERTIS during BepiColombo’s fifth flyby (Kay Wohlfarth)
17/3 15:00-15:15Heat-pipe geodynamics: How Io’s tectonics might help explain the geodynamic evolution of all rocky planets (Hannah Sophia Davies)
17/3 15:15-15:30Surface temperature and mantle rheology influence the cooling efficiency of magmatic styles on Venus (Carianna Herrera)
17/3 15:30-16:00Coffee break (poster viewing)
17/3 16:00Session 7: Planets and moons (Chair: Silvia Tellmann, Universität Köln)
17/3 16:00-16:30Keynote The Research & Exploration Program of the German Space Agency at DLR (Thomas Driebe)
17/3 16:30-16:45Scintillations observed in radio occultation measurements at Venus (Janusz Oschlisniok)
17/3 16:45-17:00The influence of mineralogy-dependent thermal parameters on the evolution of Mercury (Nicola Tosi)
17/3 17:00-17:15Estimates for dust measurements with CMDM in Martian orbit (Juergen Schmidt )
17/3 17:15-17:30Exploring Supernova Signatures in Time-Resolved Records from the Atacama Desert, Chile   (Klemens Kirsch)
17/3 17:30-18:20Future of Planetary Sciences in Germany (Discussion)
17/3 18:20-18:30Short break
17/3 18:30-19:30DGP member meeting (Heike Rauer, Bastian Gundlach)
17/3 20:00Conference dinner
Wednesday
18/3 09:15Session 8: Instruments and lab works (Chair: Julian Bartholomäus, TU Berlin)
18/3 09:15-09:45Keynote Journey to Mercury: The BepiColombo Mission and Its Arrival in Orbit in 2026 (Solmaz Adeli)
18/3 09:45-10:00A Miniaturized MEMS-based Spectrometer for Lunar In-Situ Exploration (Matthias Grott)
18/3 10:00-10:15South Pole Seismic Station (SPSS): An Artemis IV active and passive seismic experiment getting ready for the Moon via LUNA (Martin Knapmeyer)
18/3 10:15-10:30A Brush Wheel Sampler for Asteroidal Regolith (Lukas Bannemann)
18/3 10:30-10:45Deep Sintering of Lunar Regolith Simulants  (Robin Nitschke)
18/3 10:45-11:00Supporting Planetary Science with Small Satellites Missions, Autonomy and Miniaturization (Jonathan Männel)
18/3 11:00-11:45Coffee break (poster viewing)
18/3 11:45Session 9: Instruments and lab works (Chair: Jenny Feige, MFN Berlin)
18/3 11:45-12:00Constraining surface composition and searching for volcanic activity on Venus: The Venus Emissivity Mapper instrument on VERITAS and EnVision missions (Ana-Catalina Plesa)
18/3 12:00-12:15The MaCro Crosslink Experiment on-board of the ESA M7 Candidate Mission M-MATISSE (Martin Pätzold)
18/3 12:15-12:30The QUO VADIS mission to study the seismicity on Venus through atmospheric airglow: Mission architecture and design (Julian Bartholomäus)
18/3 12:30-12:45Laser-Assisted Dust Lunar Experiment (LADLE): Investigating Electrostatic Dust Transport on the Moon (Christian Althaus)
18/3 12:45-13:00Mars analogue sample analysis using MOMA Flight Analogue Systems: Evaluating LD-MS and Py-GC-MS Configurations for the Search for Biosignatures (Fatma Yesil-Sahan)
18/3 13:00-13:15Molten Regolith Extrusion (MREx) performed at TU Berlin (Simon Stapperfend)
18/3 13:15-13:30Spectral changes induced by thermal processing in simulants of pristine organic refractory materials (Riccardo Giovanni Urso)
18/3 13:30-14:00Final plenary discussion (Heike Rauer, Bastian Gundlach)
18/3 14:00-14:30Farewell coffee and pretzels
Poster Session
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Rocky exoplanets around M dwarfs can form abiotic N2-O2 atmospheres (Lena Noack)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Dynamics of the topside ionospheres of Venus and Mars as seen by recent radio science observations (Kerstin Peter)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Protonation-induced chemical transformations of complex organics in mass spectrometry: implications for icy ocean worlds exploration. (Lucía Hortal Sánchez)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Drake’s Dice: Bringing Astrobiology to the board game evening. (Pott Alissa)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Reflectance comparison between MESSENGER hyperspectral and laser altimetry data at 1064 nm: Implications for future measurements with the BepiColombo Laser Altimeter (BELA) and its potential use for surface composition analysis (Joseph Ladd)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Jezero Hiking Map: Interactive Exploration of Mars (Sebastian Walter)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A Search for Metallic Absorption in the Transmission Spectrum of HD 189733b (Luke Wiebe)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Experiments for the Detection of Organics in Irradiated Ice Grains with Europa Clipper’s SUDA Mass Spectrometer (Maryse Napoleoni)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A Hybrid UAV Communication Framework for Next-Gen Robotic Missions (Vasantha Kanesh Muruganantham)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Laboratory Emissivity of Venus Analogs Under Simulated Surface Conditions in support of VenSpec-M and VEM data Analysis (Giulia Alemanno)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Planetary atmospheres: twilight zone-effects in exoplanet phase curves (Szilárd Csizmadia)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Exploring Extraterrestrial Subsurfaces Using UAV-Enabled Geophysical Mapping (Christian Janke)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Stoics in Space: Human Factors, Group Cohesion, and Psychological Resilience in Extra-Terrestrial Communities (Christian Janke)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Modelling and Parameter Optimization for Balloon Missions on Mars  (Felix Nöding )
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Elastic Plastic Flexure on Icy Moons: Implications for heat flux estimation (Adrien Broquet)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Crustal thickness variations on telluric planet could originated from feedback mechanisms. (Valentin Bonnet Gibet )
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Explaining Mercury’s heterogeneous tectonic record with geodynamic models (Theresa Büttner)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Early formation phase of the Solar System: Interpretation of the fossil records of supernova grains in meteorites (Gábor G. Balázs)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Radio Sounding of the Venusian Atmosphere and Ionosphere with the RSE Experiment on Envision (Silvia Tellmann)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Venus as an Exoplanet: Effect of varying stellar, orbital, planetary and atmospheric properties upon composition, habitability and detectability. (John Lee Grenfell)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Quantum Chemistry-Aided Analysis for Impact Ionisation Mass Spectrometry at Icy Ocean Worlds (Thomas R. O'Sullivan)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Predicting the Clog: Flow Behaviour of Lunar Regolith in Partial Gravity (Oliver Gaida)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A single-photon counting laser altimeter for a mission to the Moon (Christian Althaus)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Design of a Baffle System for VERITAS VEM QM Laboratory Measurements (Shivani Patwardhan)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Constraints on the Lunar Water Budget from Lunar Magma Ocean Evolution Models (Sabrina Schwinger)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Sand wedge polygons in the salt-cemented sediments of the hyper-arid Atacama Desert and their relevance for Mars. (Christof Sager)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Heat Transport and Geodynamic Processes in Ganymede’s Rocky Interior (Emmanouela Konstantakopoulou)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A Laboratory Imaging Emulator for the MERTIS Instrument in preparation for BepiColombo Mission: MIMIC (Akin Domac)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15The MErcury Radiometer and Thermal Infrared Spectrometer (MERTIS) onboard BepiColombo: data calibration, format and reduction. (Mario D'Amore)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A Martian Analogue? Dust-Covered Polygonal Terrain in the Atacama Desert (Josephine Anderson)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Internship Project: Modeling Secondary Electron Yield in Nanometric Dust:Implications for Saturn's Plasma Environment (Justine Bergeron)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15PlanetaryPy: A software package to democratize and ease access to planetary data, metadata, and algorithms (K.-Michael Aye)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15TRANSCENDENCE - A TRANSit Capture ENgine for DEtection and
Neural network Characterization of Exoplanets (Hendrik Schmerling)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Impact simulations of the DART impact – on the influence of interior properties (Robert Luther)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15ExoMars Drive-Path Optimization Algorithms for the Rosalind Franklin Rover (Lucas Fernandez)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Underestimation of planetary contraction due to obscuration of shortening structures by surface roughness: The case of Mercury (Gaku Nishiyama)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Synoptical examples of work with JunoCam data from geometrical in-flight calibration to attempts of fluid dynamical modeling of Jupiter’s polar regions (Gerald Eichstädt)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Morphological map of the northern delta in Jezero crater on Mars (Anastasiia Ovchinnikova)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Influence of Small-Scale Core-Mantle Boundary Structures on the Dynamics of the Earth’s Outer Core (Illya Lohay)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Negligible ultraviolet flux strikes the Hadean Earth surface: implications for prebiotic chemistry (Bruna Fena)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Gravitational effects on the ice shell dynamics of the Super-Earth OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb: Implications for partial melting processes. (Katherine Villavicencio Valero)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Digital outcrop modelling with Mars 2020 Perseverance Mastcam-Z and Navcam images (A. Borchert)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Numerical Modeling of Impact Craters on Icy Targets: Insights into Ray and Halo Crater Formation on Ganymede (Rajit Das)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Iron-rich spherules from the Atacama Desert – evidence of the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis? (Benedikt Maurer)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15H2-H2O phase separation in Uranus and Neptune and revised entropies of the AQUA EoS (Nicola Tosi)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Statistics of PLATO’s point-like camera ghosts (Erik Dünschede)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15When planetary surfaces interact with volatiles – a spectral and mineralogical study (Tanja Michalik)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Detecting and Monitoring Boulder Movement Using Segmentation-Based Deep Learning  (Pouria Karami)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Interactive Demonstration:  Experiencing NLOS Communication Recovery with a Tethered Aerial Relay (Vasantha Kanesh Muruganantham)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Impact of CO2 absorption continua upon the derivation of surface emissivity differences on Venus (Ankita Das)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Venus analogue measurements in the laboratory using an emulator of VERITAS’s VEM instrument (Solmaz Adeli)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Probing Star-Planet Chemical Connections: Interior Structures of Small Planets Orbiting Compositionally-Diverse Stars (Yoshi Nike Emilia Eschen)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15LRAD – The Lunar Radiometer on Commercial Lunar Mission IM-2 (Maximilian Hamm)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Simulation of 2D Heat Flow in Asteroid Boulders (Maximilian Hamm)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Simulation Tools for Large Scale Radar Observation Scenarios (Michael Jenning)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Leading the Way to Venus - Implementing the VenSpec Spectrometer Consortium aboard the EnVision Mission (Friederike Wolff)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Micrometeorites as a Toolkit for Early Engagement in Planetary Science and Scientific Practice Across Schools and Student Research Projects (Andrea Miedtank)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15WISDOM GPR Instrument for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin Mission – Overview and Field Test Results (Wolf-Stefan Benedix)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15High-Performance Ground-Penetrating Radar for Small Rover Missions (Dirk Plettemeier)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Towards the Early Evolution of Gas Giants: Linking Accretion Shocks and Interior Evolution with PINN (Bingjie Zha)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Planetary Geodynamic Model Collection of Open Source Software, Teaching Materials and Benchmarks (Iris Boer)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A Compact Hybrid Radar for Landing Support and Subsurface Investigation on Low-Gravity Planetary Bodies (Martin Laabs)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Absence of a Runaway Greenhouse Limit on Lava Planets (Iris Boer)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A New Dust Model for the Saturnian System (Peter Strub)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Partially multiplexed high-resolution spectroscopy of the Solar Atmosphere (Adalbert Ding)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15The DLR-MUSC: 30 years of support, operations and realization of  exploration missions -  and now, what's the future?   (Biele, Jens)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Enhanced water retention in the mantles of super-Earth planets (Julia M Schmidt)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A 1D Interior Model of Terrestrial Planet Evolution During Accretion (Meiye Wu)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15A new global map of SiO₂ abundance on the lunar surface (Christian J. Renggli)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Architecture of planetary systems: how to predict Earth-like planets detection? (Jeanne Davoult)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15RADAR EVIDENCE OF SUBSURFACE LAYERS IN THE NORTHERN MID-LATITUDES OF MARS (Devanshi Kacholia)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Investigating the Origin of the Low Viscosity Layer on Venus (José Maria Ascensão)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Investigating the interior structure of the Moon using geodynamic modeling (Sabatino Santangelo)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Planetary Research: A new Diamond Open Access Journal for Planetary Science (Nicola Tosi)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15Influence of heat-pipe cooling on planetary interior evolution: A comparison of 1-D and 2-D approaches (Amandine Le Roy)
P 16/3 18:30-19:15LIBS for planetary in-situ exploration: an overview of research activities at DLR (Kristin Rammelkamp)