Dr. Veerle J. Sterken

I’m an aerospace engineer and a space scientist, currently leading a research group at the ETH Zürich (Switzerland), funded by the ERC Starting Grant Nr. 851544: “The Heliosphere and the Dust: Characterization of the Solar and Interstellar Neighbourhood”. Our research group website is: www.astrodust.phys.ethz.ch

My daily work covers research, teaching, supervision, outreach talks, publishing and community service, like organizing meetings, refereeing publications, editing books, mentoring, etc. My work is curosity-driven and I regularly engage in interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues from other fields to allow for synergies that push the field forward.

 

Research interests

  • Cosmic dust in the solar system
  • Solar wind, heliospheric science
  • Space (micro)debris and the impact of spaceflight on the atmosphere
  • Space instrumentation and calibration
  • Spaceraft data analysis
  • Dust trajectory simulations in the solar system
  • Space mission concept design
  • History of science
  • Spaceflight and aeronautics

Email: info [at] veerlesterken.ch

Group website: www.astrodust.phys.ethz.ch

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0843-7912  

Refereed publications: 55  

H-index: 20 (NASA ADSWWW)