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Chris Böttner is a Researcher at the University of Groningen’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, affiliated with the Kapteyn Institute for Astronomy and the Tieleman group in Animal Ecology. His research focuses on astrobiology, linking planetary habitability to galactic and cosmological scales.
- PhD student in Astronomy
- Part of the PLATO mission and cosmic habitability projects
His work integrates galaxy formation simulations with planet population synthesis models to study exoplanet distributions across Milky Way components (thin disk, thick disk, stellar halo). Additionally, he explores critical slowing down in dynamical systems as a framework for predicting climate transitions.
Key trends in his publications include:
- Galactic-scale habitability and black hole dynamics (2025)
- Exoplanet yield predictions for PLATO (2024)
- Milky Way planet demographics via multi-model synthesis (2024)
- Nonstationary noise analysis in climate systems (2022)
- Early-warning signals in Cenozoic climate data (2021)
He contributes to open-access datasets, including the Galactic Component Classification for the all-sky PLATO Input Catalog (2024). Collaborations span institutions in the Netherlands and beyond, focusing on habitability, gamma radiation, and galactic evolution.
