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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Joao Manuel Mendonca

Citation names

  • Mendonca, Joao

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
621B-846F-AA7D
ORCID iD
0000-0002-6907-4476
Education
Degree Classification
2008/09/01 - 2013/06/30
Concluded
 Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Oxford Department of Physics, United Kingdom
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2013/07/01 - 2017/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Universität Bern Center for Space and Habitability, Switzerland
Universität Bern Center for Space and Habitability, Switzerland
2007/09/01 - 2008/02/29 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
(...)

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/05/01 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
2017/12/01 - 2019/04/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
2017/09/01 - 2017/11/30 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Københavns Universitet Niels Bohr Instituttet, Denmark
Københavns Universitet Niels Bohr Instituttet, Denmark
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2020/09/01 - 2022/08/31 Characterizing Exoplanet Atmospheres with ARIEL
4000127377
Principal investigator
Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark
 European Space Agency
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Lowson, Nataliea; Zhou, George; Huang, Chelsea; Wright, Duncan; Mendonca, Joao; Latham, David. "When You Wish Upon A Planet: The Encapsulating Tail of KELT-9b". 2022.
  2. Mendonca, Joao M.. "Golden-Retriever: Unveiling planetary atmospheres using a unified model framework and advanced sampling techniques". 2022.
  3. Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Cabot, Samuel H. C.; Mendonca, Joao M.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Rathcke, Alexander D.. "The Periodic Table in Gaseous Form: First Analysis of the Remarkably Rich Atmosphere of HAT-P-70b". 2022.
  4. Kozakis, Thea; Mendonça, João M.; Buchhave, Lars A.. "Ozone as a Proxy for Molecular Oxygen". 2022.
  5. Mendonca, Joao M.; Buchhave, Lars. "Exploring the Climate of Exoplanets with OASIS". 2019.
  6. Deitrick, Russell; Mendonca, Joao M.; Schroffenegger, Urs; Tsai, Shang-Min; Grimm, Simon; Heng, Kevin. "THOR version 2: a GPU-enabled, non-hydrostatic general circulation model for extra-solar planets". 2019.
  7. Bierson, Carver; Zhang, Xi; Mendonca, Joao; Liang, Mao-Chang. "Coupled Photochemical and Condensation Model for the Venus Atmosphere". 2017.
  8. Malik, Matej; Grosheintz, Luc; Lukas Grimm, Simon; Mendonça, João; Kitzmann, Daniel; Heng, Kevin. "HELIOS: A new open-source radiative transfer code". 2015.
  9. Mendonça, João; Grosheintz, Luc; Lukas Grimm, Simon; Heng, Kevin. "A Study on Planetary Atmospheric Circulations using THOR". 2015.
  10. Grosheintz, Luc; Mendonça, João; Käppeli, Roger; Lukas Grimm, Simon; Mishra, Siddhartha; Heng, Kevin. "THOR: an open-source exo-GCM". 2015.
  11. Mendonca, J.; Grimm, S.; Heng, K.. "THOR-ISO: a Global Circulation Model for Exoplanets on an Icosahedral Grid". 2015.
  12. Mendonca, J.; Heng, K.; Grimm, S.. "THOR-ICO: a General Circulation Model for Exoplanets on an Icosahedral Grid". 2014.
  13. Montabone, L.; Mendonca, J.; Lebonnois, S.; Wilson, C. F.. "The Sesonality of the Atmospheric Polar Vortices on Venus compared to Earth, Mars, and Titan". 2013.
  14. Read, P. L.; Chelvaniththilan, S.; Lewis, S. R.; Mendonca, J.. "Comparative global energy budgets for Earth, Mars and Venus". 2013.
Conference paper
  1. Kozakis, Thea; Mendonça, João M.; Buchhave, Lars A.. "Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen?". 2022.
    10.5194/epsc2022-1267
  2. Read, P. L.; Lewis, S. R.; Mendonca, J.; Montabone, L.; Mulholland, D. P.; Ruan, T.; Wang, Y.. "Climate Regimes on Terrestrial Planets Within a Hierarchy of Dynamical Models". 2012.
  3. Mendonca, J. M.; Read, P. L.; Lewis, S. R.; Lee, C.. "The New Oxford Planetary Unified Model System for Venus (OPUS-V)". 2012.
  4. Lewis, S. R.; Dawson, J.; Read, P. L.; Mendonca, J.; Ruan, T.; Montabone, L.. "Super-Rotating Jets in the Atmospheres of Terrestrial Planets". 2012.
  5. Lebonnois, S.; Lee, C.; Yamamoto, M.; Dawson, J.; Lewis, S. R.; Mendonca, J.; Read, P. L.; Parish, H.. "Weakly forced atmospheric GCMs : Lessons from model comparisons". 2011.
Journal article
  1. Shang-Min Tsai; Vivien Parmentier; João M. Mendonça; Xianyu Tan; Russell Deitrick; Mark Hammond; Arjun B. Savel; et al. "Global Chemical Transport on Hot Jupiters: Insights from the 2D VULCAN Photochemical Model". The Astrophysical Journal (2024): https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1600.
    10.3847/1538-4357/ad1600
  2. Aaron Bello-Arufe; Heather A. Knutson; João M. Mendonça; Michael M. Zhang; Samuel H. C. Cabot; Alexander D. Rathcke; Ana Ulla; Shreyas Vissapragada; Lars A. Buchhave. "Transmission Spectroscopy of the Lowest-density Gas Giant: Metals and a Potential Extended Outflow in HAT-P-67b". The Astronomical Journal (2023): https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/acd935.
    10.3847/1538-3881/acd935
  3. Rathcke, Alexander D.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Mendonça, João M.; Sing, David K.; López-Morales, Mercedes; Alam, Munazza K.; Henry, Gregory W.; et al. "HST PanCET programme: a flat optical transmission spectrum for the Hot Jupiter WASP-101b". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 522 1 (2023): 582-594.
    10.1093/mnras/stad1010
  4. Diamond-Lowe, Hannah; Mendonça, João M.; Charbonneau, David; Buchhave, Lars A.. "Ground-based Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Nearby Terrestrial Exoplanet LTT 1445Ab". The Astronomical Journal 165 4 (2023): 169-169.
    10.3847/1538-3881/acbf39
  5. Lowson, Nataliea; Zhou, George; Wright, Duncan J.; Huang, Chelsea X.; Mendonça, João M.; Cabot, Samuel H.~C.; Pudmenzky, Christa; et al. "Multiepoch Detections of the Extended Atmosphere and Transmission Spectra of KELT-9b with a 1.5 m Telescope". The Astronomical Journal 165 3 (2023): 101-101.
    10.3847/1538-3881/acacf3
  6. Kozakis, Thea; Mendonça, João M.; Buchhave, Lars A.. "Is ozone a reliable proxy for molecular oxygen?. I. The O$_2$-O$_3$ relationship for Earth-like atmospheres". Astronomy & Astrophysics 665 (2022): A156-A156.
    10.1051/0004-6361/202244164
  7. Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Buchhave, Lars A.; Mendonça, João M.; Tronsgaard, René; Heng, Kevin; Jens Hoeijmakers, H.; Mayo, Andrew W.. "Exoplanet atmospheres at high resolution through a modest-size telescope. Fe II in MASCARA-2b and KELT-9b with FIES on the Nordic Optical Telescope". Astronomy & Astrophysics 662 (2022): A51-A51.
    10.1051/0004-6361/202142787
  8. Deitrick, Russell; Heng, Kevin; Schroffenegger, Urs; Kitzmann, Daniel; Grimm, Simon L.; Malik, Matej; Mendonça, João M.; Morris, Brett M.. "The THOR + HELIOS general circulation model: multiwavelength radiative transfer with accurate scattering by clouds/hazes". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 512 3 (2022): 3759-3787.
    10.1093/mnras/stac680
  9. Mendonça, J.~M.. "Mass transport in a moist planetary climate model". Astronomy & Astrophysics 659 (2022): A43-A43.
    10.1051/0004-6361/202141638
  10. Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Cabot, Samuel H.~C.; Mendonça, João M.; Buchhave, Lars A.; Rathcke, Alexander D.. "Mining the Ultrahot Skies of HAT-P-70b: Detection of a Profusion of Neutral and Ionized Species". The Astronomical Journal 163 2 (2022): 96-96.
    10.3847/1538-3881/ac402e
  11. Shao, Wencheng D.; Zhang, Xi; Mendonça, João; Encrenaz, Thérèse. "Local-time Dependence of Chemical Species in the Venusian Mesosphere". The Planetary Science Journal 3 1 (2022): 3-3.
    10.3847/PSJ/ac3bd3
  12. "Mining the Ultra-Hot Skies of HAT-P-70b: Detection of a Profusion of Neutral and Ionized Species". The Astronomical Journal (2021): https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.03292.
  13. Kopparla, Pushkar; Deitrick, Russell; Heng, Kevin; Mendonça, João M.; Hammond, Mark. "General Circulation Model Errors Are Variable across Exoclimate Parameter Spaces". The Astrophysical Journal 923 1 (2021): 39-39.
    10.3847/1538-4357/ac2d27
  14. Cabot, Samuel H.~C.; Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Mendonça, João M.; Tronsgaard, René; Wong, Ian; Zhou, George; Buchhave, Lars A.; et al. "TOI-1518b: A Misaligned Ultra-hot Jupiter with Iron in Its Atmosphere". The Astronomical Journal 162 5 (2021): 218-218.
    10.3847/1538-3881/ac1ba3
  15. Stangret, M.; Pallé, E.; Casasayas-Barris, N.; Oshagh, M.; Bello-Arufe, A.; Luque, R.; Nascimbeni, V.; et al. "The obliquity and atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-1431b (MASCARA-5b): A misaligned orbit and no signs of atomic or molecular absorptions". Astronomy & Astrophysics 654 (2021): A73-A73.
    10.1051/0004-6361/202040100
  16. Rathcke, Alexander D.; MacDonald, Ryan J.; Barstow, Joanna K.; Goyal, Jayesh M.; Lopez-Morales, Mercedes; Mendonça, João M.; Sanz-Forcada, Jorge; et al. "HST PanCET Program: A Complete Near-UV to Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Hot Jupiter WASP-79b". The Astronomical Journal 162 4 (2021): 138-138.
    10.3847/1538-3881/ac0e99
  17. Tinetti, Giovanna; Eccleston, Paul; Haswell, Carole; Lagage, Pierre-Olivier; Leconte, Jérémy; Lüftinger, Theresa; Micela, Giusi; et al. "Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years". arXiv e-prints (2021): arXiv:2104.04824-arXiv:2104.04824.
    10.48550/arXiv.2104.04824
  18. "A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel". Experimental Astronomy (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09715-x.
    10.1007/s10686-021-09715-x
  19. Grimm, Simon L.; Malik, Matej; Kitzmann, Daniel; Guzmán-Mesa, Andrea; Hoeijmakers, H. Jens; Fisher, Chloe; Mendonça, João M.; et al. "HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 253 1 (2021): 30-30.
    10.3847/1538-4365/abd773
  20. João M Mendonça; Lars A Buchhave. "Modelling the 3D climate of Venus with oasis". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 496 3 (2020): 3512-3530. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa1618.
    10.1093/mnras/staa1618
  21. Russell Deitrick; João M. Mendonça; Urs Schroffenegger; Simon L. Grimm; Shang-Min Tsai; Kevin Heng. "THOR 2.0: Major Improvements to the Open-source General Circulation Model". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2020): https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab930e.
    10.3847/1538-4365/ab930e
  22. João M Mendonça. "Angular momentum and heat transport on tidally locked hot Jupiter planets". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (2020): https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3050.
    10.1093/mnras/stz3050
  23. Matej Malik; Daniel Kitzmann; João M. Mendonça; Simon L. Grimm; Gabriel-Dominique Marleau; Esther F. Linder; Shang-Min Tsai; Kevin Heng. "Self-luminous and Irradiated Exoplanetary Atmospheres Explored with HELIOS". The Astronomical Journal (2019): https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ab1084.
    10.3847/1538-3881/ab1084
  24. João M. Mendonça; Shang-min Tsai; Matej Malik; Simon L. Grimm; Kevin Heng. "Three-dimensional Circulation Driving Chemical Disequilibrium in WASP-43b". The Astrophysical Journal (2018): https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaed23.
    10.3847/1538-4357/aaed23
  25. Shang-Min Tsai; Daniel Kitzmann; James R. Lyons; João Mendonça; Simon L. Grimm; Kevin Heng. "Toward Consistent Modeling of Atmospheric Chemistry and Dynamics in Exoplanets: Validation and Generalization of the Chemical Relaxation Method". The Astrophysical Journal 862 1 (2018): 31-31. https://doi.org/10.3847%2F1538-4357%2Faac834.
    10.3847/1538-4357/aac834
  26. João M. Mendonça; Matej Malik; Brice-Olivier Demory; Kevin Heng. "Revisiting the Phase Curves of WASP-43b: Confronting Re-analyzed Spitzer Data with Cloudy Atmospheres". The Astronomical Journal (2018): https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aaaebc.
    10.3847/1538-3881/aaaebc
  27. Baptiste Lavie; João M. Mendonça; Christoph Mordasini; Matej Malik; Mickaël Bonnefoy; Brice-Olivier Demory; Maria Oreshenko; et al. "HELIOS–RETRIEVAL: An Open-source, Nested Sampling Atmospheric Retrieval Code; Application to the HR 8799 Exoplanets and Inferred Constraints for Planet Formation". The Astronomical Journal (2017):
    10.3847/1538-3881/aa7ed8
  28. Kevin Heng; João M. Mendonça; Jae-Min Lee. "Erratum: Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. II. Radiative Transfer via the Two-stream Approximation (2014, ApJS, 215, 4)". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 229 2 (2017): 44-44. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa6841.
    10.3847/1538-4365/aa6841
  29. Matej Malik; Luc Grosheintz; João M. Mendonça; Simon L. Grimm; Baptiste Lavie; Daniel Kitzmann; Shang-Min Tsai; et al. "HELIOS: AN OPEN-SOURCE, GPU-ACCELERATED RADIATIVE TRANSFER CODE FOR SELF-CONSISTENT EXOPLANETARY ATMOSPHERES". The Astronomical Journal (2017):
    10.3847/1538-3881/153/2/56
  30. João M. Mendonça; Simon L. Grimm; Luc Grosheintz; Kevin Heng. "THOR: A NEW AND FLEXIBLE GLOBAL CIRCULATION MODEL TO EXPLORE PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES". The Astrophysical Journal 829 2 (2016): 115-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/115.
    10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/115
  31. P. L. Read; J. Barstow; B. Charnay; S. Chelvaniththilan; P. G. J. Irwin; S. Knight; S. Lebonnois; et al. "Global energy budgets and ‘Trenberth diagrams’ for the climates of terrestrial and gas giant planets". Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 142 695 (2016): 703-720. https://doi.org/10.1002%2Fqj.2704.
    10.1002/qj.2704
  32. J.M. Mendonça; P.L. Read. "Exploring the Venus global super-rotation using a comprehensive general circulation model". Planetary and Space Science 134 (2016): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.pss.2016.09.001.
    10.1016/j.pss.2016.09.001
  33. J.M. Mendonça; P.L. Read; C.F. Wilson; C. Lee. "A new, fast and flexible radiative transfer method for Venus general circulation models". Planetary and Space Science 105 (2015): 80-93. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.pss.2014.11.008.
    10.1016/j.pss.2014.11.008
  34. Kevin Heng; João M. Mendonça; Jae-Min Lee. "ANALYTICAL MODELS OF EXOPLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. II. RADIATIVE TRANSFER VIA THE TWO-STREAM APPROXIMATION". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 215 1 (2014): 4-4. https://doi.org/10.1088%2F0067-0049%2F215%2F1%2F4.
    10.1088/0067-0049/215/1/4
  35. João M. Mendonça; Peter L. Read; Colin F. Wilson; Stephen R. Lewis. "Zonal winds at high latitudes on Venus: An improved application of cyclostrophic balance to Venus Express observations". Icarus 217 2 (2012): 629-639. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.icarus.2011.07.010.
    10.1016/j.icarus.2011.07.010
Preprint
  1. "General Circulation Model Errors are Variable across Exoclimate Parameter Spaces". 2021.
  2. "HST PanCET Program: A Complete Near-UV to Infrared Transmission Spectrum for the Hot Jupiter WASP-79b". 2021.
  3. "Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years". 2021.
  4. "Mass Transport in a Moist Planetary Climate Model". 2021.
  5. "The obliquity and atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter TOI-1431b (MASCARA-5b): A misaligned orbit and no signs of atomic ormolecular absorptions". 2021.
Report
  1. Giovanna Tinetti; Paul Eccleston; Carole Haswell; Pierre-Olivier Lagage; Jérémy Leconte; Theresa Lüftinger; Giusi Micela; et al. 2020. Ariel: Enabling planetary science across light-years. https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/publications/ec7e771e-53fa-417a-bdd3-fd7c5cea7b88.
Working paper
  1. Mendonça, João M.; Buchhave, Lars A.. 2020. "Modelling the 3D Climate of Venus with OASIS".
  2. Deitrick, Russell; Mendonça, João M.; Schroffenegger, Urs; Grimm, Simon L.; Tsai, Shang-Min; Heng, Kevin. 2019. "THOR 2.0: Major Improvements to the Open-Source General Circulation Model".

Other

Other output
  1. An HST exclusive look at two rising stars: high-energy spectra of the two closest M dwarfs to host transiting terrestrial exoplanets. 2021. Diamond-Lowe, Hannah; King, George; Buchhave, Lars A.; Corrales, Lia; Kozakis, Thea; Kreidberg, Laura; Medina, Amber; Mendonca, Joao Manuel; Winters, Jennifer.
  2. Exploring the morning and evening limbs of a transiting exoplanet. 2021. Espinoza, Nestor; Baeyens, Robin; Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Buchhave, Lars A.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Carone, Ludmila; Diamond-Lowe, Hannah; et al.
  3. Probing the Terrestrial Planet TRAPPIST-1c for the Presence of an Atmosphere. 2021. Rathcke, Alexander; Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Buchhave, Lars A.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Diamond-Lowe, Hannah; Espinoza, Nestor; Fisher, Chloe; et al.
  4. The first near-infrared spectroscopic phase-curve of a super-Earth. 2021. Espinoza, Nestor; Bello-Arufe, Aaron; Buchhave, Lars A.; Burgasser, Adam J.; Demory, Brice-Olivier; Diamond-Lowe, Hannah; Fisher, Chloe; et al.
  5. A survey of exoplanet phase curves with Ariel. 2021. Mendonca, Joao.
  6. HELIOS-K 2.0 Opacity Calculator and Open-source Opacity Database for Exoplanetary Atmospheres. 2021. Mendonca, Joao.
  7. Models of Venus Atmosphere. 2012. Sebastien Lebonnois; Christopher Lee; Masaru Yamamoto; Jonathan Dawson; Stephen R. Lewis; Joao Mendonca; Peter Read; et al. https://doi.org/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-5064-1_8.
    10.1007/978-1-4614-5064-1_8
Research technique
  1. THOR: Global Circulation Model for planetary atmospheres. Mendonca, Joao.
  2. HELIOS: Radiative transfer code for exoplanetary atmospheres. Mendonca, Joao.