My name is Raphael Marschall, and I am a planetary physicist and Associate Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Bern. Previously, I’ve worked at the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), the Laboratoire J.-L. Lagrange of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur in Nice (France), and the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder (CO, USA).

My primary scientific interest is understanding the formation and evolution of our Solar System. I study and analyse data acquired by interplanetary spacecraft. In particular, I’ve used data sets collected by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) spacecraft Rosetta to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, NASA’s Lucy mission to the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter, and the forthcoming Comet Interceptor mission to a dynamically new comet, to understand the evolution of small bodies. Recently, I’ve also focused on understanding how planetesimals form in the early protoplanetary disk.