Author Archives: Svetlana Berdyugina

SIAPS Workshop: Swiss Innovation for Astrophysics and Planetary Science

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January 20-22, 2026, Bern, organized by NCCR PlanetS, Workshop website

The workshop will feature the Swiss technical expertise with the scientific needs of upcoming national and international programs for (1) ground and space telescopes and instrumentation and (2) in-situ experiments and instrumentation. It will bring together the Swiss engineering partners from Universities, Universities of Applied Science, national Research Centers, and Industry engaged or interested to support technology development for Big Science. Thus, SIAPS will establish a national coordination platform to promote long-term planning and collaboration for the next-generation of instruments for ground and space missions. An invited talk on the EST technological challenges will be presented by Prof. Svetlana Berdyugina, CH-EST coordinator.

7th Swiss SCOSTEP Workshop

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November 27-28, 2025, Bern, Organized by University of Bern, Workshop website

The SCOSTEP workshop aims at bringing together scientists with an interest in solar-terrestrial physics, covering the topics of fundamental solar physics, solar variability, Sun-Earth relations, and future missions and observations. It encourages a lively exchange between participants to identify synergies, foster collaborations, and strengthen the Swiss solar-terrestrial community.

2025 Fritz Kutter Prize awarded to Samuel Corecco for the MSc thesis in AI applied to solar data

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Samuel Corecco, Master in Artificial Intelligence graduate from the USI Faculty of Informatics, is the winner of the 2025 Fritz Kutter Prize (ETHZ). Corecco’s thesis “Using Artificial Intelligence for retrieving physical parameters of solar plasma from spectropolarimetric lines” was carried out at IRSOL under the supervision of Prof. Svetlana Berdyugina. The award was presented by the Fritz Kutter Fund in a ceremony held on 24 November 2025. A new sequential process based on AI developed in the thesis revolutionises the way we process solar data and offers a perfect blend of speed, accuracy and physical information.

The SSAA Edith Alice Müller Award 2025 goes to Dr. Andrea Francesco Battaglia

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Dr. Andrea Francesco Battaglia has been awarded the Edith Alice Müller Award 2025 by the Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SSAA) for his PhD work on solar flares observed with the Swiss-led ESA Solar Orbiter instrument STIX. The thesis work was carried out at ETHZ and FHNW. Andrea is now a postdoc at IRSOL and continues his studies of flares through optical spectropolarimetric observations with ZIMPOL coordinated with STIX measurements. Find details at this link.

Workshop in honor of Dr. Oskar Steiner

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June 13-14, 2025, Muralto, Organized by IRSOL, Workshop website

An international workshop was organized to honor scientific achievements of Dr. Oskar Steiner, former leader of the IRSOL group working on MHD numerical simulations of the solar and stellar atmospheres: “Pathways to and from the Sun with OSKAR (Outstanding Simulations based on Knowledge, Algorithms, and Research)”. Topics ranged from in-depth research in solar physics to applications in teaching physics related to everyday life, for example, with a cup of coffee, and some reflections on the borderline between science and philosophy.