Stellar-MADE Project
Exploring the effects of Stellar Multiplicity on planet formation Across Disc Evolution.
ERC Starting Grant: October 2022 - September 2027.
Hosted at IPAG & UGA (Grenoble, France).
Members of the team:
- Nicolás Cuello (Principal Investigator, IPAG/UGA/ERC)
- Antoine Alaguero (Postdoc, IPAG/UGA/ERC)
- Pedro Poblete (Postdoc, IPAG/CNRS/ERC)
- Mario Sucerquia (Postdoc, IPAG/UGA/ERC)
- Romain Grane (PhD Student, IPAG/UGA/ERC)
- Elisa Castro (PhD Student, IPAG/UGA/ANR)
- Daniel Price (Visiting professor, Monash/UGA)
Project goals:
- Establish the formation channels of protoplanetary discs around young stellar objects;
- Follow disc dynamics and grain growth to identify the regions of planetesimal formation;
- Characterise planetary architectures and the resulting exoplanet population.
Organised meetings & workshops
- Stellar-MADE Winter Meeting 2026 at Villard-de-Lans (13-16 January 2026).
- Multiplicity in Young Stars at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (26-29 August 2025).
- 2nd European Phantom code family users workshop 2025 at IPAG (2-6 June 2025).
- Stellar-MADE Winter Meeting 2025 at Villard-de-Lans (14-17 January 2025).
- Special Session 19 on “Stars, discs & planets: dynamics & evolution in multiple systems” at EAS2024 (Padova, Italy) (3 July 2024).
- Stellar-MADE Winter Meeting 2024 at Villard-de-Lans (16-19 January 2024).
- Phantom-MCFOST workshop at IPAG (12-16 June 2023).
- Stellar-MADE Kick-off meeting at Villard-de-Lans (17-20 January 2023).
Solarigraphy project at IPAG
Project done by Patricio Michelin in collaboration with Stellar-MADE team and OSUG. If you want to see more, follow this link. Feel free to contact us if you would like to start your own solarigraphy project.
Stellar-MADE co(s)mic strips
A series of comic strips about different aspects of the science carried out within the Stellar-MADE project. The 4 episodes were originally prepared in French (FR) by Nicolás Cuello & Antoine Alaguero in collaboration with the Ink Link and Séverine Alvain (during 2023 and released in 2024 and 2025). Then, Elisa Castro took care of the translations into Spanish (ES), English (EN) & Italian (IT). We regularly use this comic during outreach activities in schools.
- Daily life of an astrophysicist, models & astronomical observations: EN1, FR1, ES1, IT1.
- Disc dynamics and planet formation in multiple stellar systems: EN2, FR2, ES2, IT2.
- Distances & detection of exoplanets in multiple stellar systems: EN3, FR3, ES3, IT3.
- Alien life, planetary orbits & chaos in multiple stellar systems: EN4, FR4, ES4, IT4.
Recent featured publications:
- Probing dust and grain growth in the optically thick circumbinary ring of V892 Tau
Alaguero, Ménard, Cuello et al. (2025) - Asymmetric radiation in binary systems: Implications for disk evolution and chemistry
Poblete, Cuello, Alaguero et al. (2025) - Two warm Earth-sized exoplanets and an Earth-sized candidate in the M5V-M6V binary system TOI-2267 Zúñiga-Fernández et al. (2025)
- Breaking long-period resonance chains with stellar flybys
Charalambous, Cuello & Petrovich (2025) - Circumstellar and circumbinary discs in multiple stellar systems
Cuello, Alaguero & Poblete (2025) - Extreme exomoons in WASP-49 Ab: Dynamics and detectability
Sucerquia & Cuello (2025) - V892 Tau: A tidally perturbed circumbinary disc in a triple stellar system
Alaguero, Cuello, Ménard et al. (2024)
Recent featured seminars and talks in conferences:
- UPCOMING: Invited seminar by Nicolás Cuello at IoA (Cambridge, England), October 2025
- UPCOMING: Invited seminar by Nicolás Cuello at DAMTP (Cambridge, England), October 2025
- Inivited review talk by Daniel Price at Multiplicity in Young Stars, Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Demmark), August 2025.
- 2 contributed talks by Antoine Alaguero & Pedro Poblete at Multiplicity in Young Stars, Niels Bohr Institute (Copenhagen, Demmark), August 2025.
- Invited Lunch Talk by Nicolás Cuello at European Southern Observatory (Garching, Germany), July 2025.
- 2 contributed talks by Pedro Poblete at EAS 2025, (Cork, Ireland), June 2025.
- 1 contributed talk by Pedro Poblete at SPHERIC (Barcelona, Spain), June 2025.
- 3 contributed talks by Antoine Alaguero, Pedro Poblete & Nicolás Cuello at 2nd European Phantom code family users workshop 2025 (Grenoble, France), June 2025.
- Invited talk by Mario Sucerquia at FoF 2025 (Córdoba, Argentina), April 2025.
Outreach activities
- Lights, Camera, Early-Career Scientists in Action! by Europlanet: 3 things about planet formation and a career overview by Nicolás Cuello, September 2025.
- “Formación del sistema solar y observaciones del Sol” at Colegio Kennedy by Elisa Castro, Montevideo, Uruguay, April 2025.
- Les cordées de la réussite: Outreach activity at Lycée Mounier in Grenoble by Nicolás Cuello, March 2025.
- La planète aux deux étoiles: Online podcast broadcast by Auroralpes featuring Antoine Alaguero & Nicolás Cuello, 21/02/2025.
- Plateau radio: Qu’est ce que la BD apporte à la science ? by Antoine Alaguero, June 2024.
- Les cordées de la réussite: Outreach activity at Lycée Argouges in Grenoble by Nicolás Cuello, June 2024.
- Pint of Science in Grenoble, 23/05/2023.
“Discs and planets in multiple stellar systems”. Program and details here. - Stellar multiplicity and planet formation, online interview on Twich with GalactiCamille by Nicolás Cuello, 22/04/2023.
- “I misteri della fomazione planetaria: Pianeti e stelle binarie”, online presentation for elementary school students by Nicolás Cuello, Italy, December 2022 and 2023.
Gallery of selected drawings by the students. - “Simulations numériques & formation planétaire”, presentation to high-school students at IPAG by Nicolás Cuello, 14/12/2022.
Main collaborators of Stellar-MADE
- François Ménard (Grenoble, France)
- Daniel Price (Monash, Australia)
- Gaspard Duchêne (IPAG, France)
- Rebecca Nealon (Warwick, UK)
- Christophe Pinte (Monash, Australia)
- Álvaro Ribas (Cambridge, UK)
- Claudia Toci (ESO, Germany)
- Matías Montesinos (Santiago, Chile)
- Carolina Charalambous (PUC, Chile)
- Enrico Ragusa (Milano, Italy)
- Sebastián Zúñiga (Liège, Belgium)
- Miguel Vioque (ESO, Germany)
Extended list of collaborators
Supervision of students/interns within the team
- Elisa Castro (Grenoble, France): 2024-2027, PhD student, by NC and Philippe Delorme.
- Romain Grane (Grenoble, France): 2024-2027, M2 & PhD student, by NC and Mario Sucerquia.
- Joshua Talidec (Grenoble, France): 2024, high-school student, by NC and Pedro Poblete.
- Félix Sauvourel (Grenoble, France): 2023, M1 student, by NC and Antoine Alaguero.
- Yuna Ageron–Dubreil (Grenoble, France): 2023, high-school student, by NC and Antoine Alaguero.
- Antoine Alaguero (Grenoble, France): 2022-2025, PhD student, by NC and François Ménard.
- Emmanuel Gianuzzi (Córdoba, Argentina): 2021-2024, PhD student, by NC and Cristian Giuppone.
- Simone Ceppi (Milano, Italy): 2020-2024, PhD student, by NC and Giuseppe Lodato.
Acknowledgements
Project hosted at at IPAG & UGA (Grenoble, France), with the participation of CNRS. Funded by the European Union (ERC, Stellar-MADE, No. 101042275). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Grant agreement No. 101042275, project Stellar-MADE.
