Ouldouz Kaboud has recently started her PhD at ICE-CSIC, where she studies the low surface brightness Universe, with a particular focus on intracluster light in galaxy clusters. Her research aims to understand what this diffuse stellar component can tell us about the formation, assembly, and dynamical evolution of galaxy clusters.

Aaron Maas' research focuses on high-energetic radiation and its impact on planetary atmospheres as well as microbial life. He works in between the fields of astrophysics, astrobiology and medicine and attempts full integration of interdisciplinary methods. His ultimate goal is to understand evolution in both stars and life in general, to infer possibilities of microbial atmospheric engineering.

Alice Deconto-Machado is a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow who studies the physics of quasars and active galactic nuclei (AGN). Her research focuses on understanding how black holes accrete matter and drive powerful outflows, such as broad absorption line winds and ultra-fast outflows, and how these energetic phenomena can influence the evolution of their host galaxies. She combines optical and ultraviolet spectroscopy, multi-epoch observations, and large spectroscopic surveys to investigate the properties, variability, and physical conditions of AGN outflows across cosmic time.

Manos Zapartas is a Junior Leader “la Caixa” postdoctoral Fellow studying how binary interaction shapes the evolution of massive stars and their final explosions as supernovae. His work combines predictions from detailed stellar and binary-population modelling with supernova observations, using tools such as the POSYDON binary population-synthesis framework, of which he has been a core developer.

Malgorzata (Gosia) Siudek's research focuses on exploring how galaxies and their central supermassive black holes evolve across cosmic time, using large galaxy surveys, multi-wavelength observations, and artificial intelligence. She develops AI-driven approaches to uncover hidden connections between galaxies, black-hole activity, and the cosmic web, with the goal of understanding how galaxies and their central black holes grow and evolve together. 

Marina Pastor's work at the ICE-CSIC focuses on supporting the measurement of Birkeland currents within the ILIADA mission, the in-orbit demonstrator of LISA. To achieve this, she is developing an algorithm to model the magnetic field measured by ILIADA in space.