Ekaterina Ilin stars and planets A few million years are nothing.

About

I was born in Moscow, but my parents took me to Germany (Jülich) when I was 7. Today I speak both Russian and German, English, and some French (badly). I did my Abitur in Karlsruhe, where I also did an undergraduate in physics. I took an excursion to the University of Oslo, where, after learning about physics in space, I decided to let go of Earth entirely and went on to study astrophysics at the University of Potsdam. I did my master's project at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam on stellar flares in open clusters. During my PhD studies, I was wonderfully supervised by Katja Poppenhäger. I research stellar flares, and how they affect exoplanets. Recently, I spent some time at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as a Fulbright scholar. Currently, I am working on X-ray observations of low mass stars, flaring star-planet interactions, and small scale stellar magnetic fields.

My research interests include: stellar magnetic activity, (magnetic) star-planet interactions, and extreme natural phenomena. Otherwise I care about better science and institutions, practical ethics, equity and inclusion, and how humanity may survive the next couple of millenia and beyond.

I spend my leisure time reading a lot, and drinking coffee. My cat Tom is probably around.

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Projects

AltaiPony

GitHub Homepage

Detect and characterize stellar flares in Kepler and TESS time domain photometry. Features injection/recovery of synthetic flares, and statistics on flare frequency distributions.

Skills

Bio

10-2023 - Postdoctoral researcher @ Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON)
11-2022 - 09-2023 Postdoctoral researcher (DLR Grant) @ Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
11-2021 - 06-2022 Fulbright research scholar @ American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH)
11-2018 - 10-2022 Doctoral student @ Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
01-2018 - 09-2018 Research Assistant @ Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
2016 - 2018 Teaching Assistant @ University of Potsdam

Education

2016-2018 University of Potsdam
MSc. Astrophysics
2012 - 2016 Karlsruhe Instutite of Technology
BSc. Physics