Portuguese Exoplanet Initiative
Students discovering worlds
Open code. Open results. Built by students to help researchers find planets beyond our Sun.
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Research
Catching a shadow
When a planet crosses its star, the light dips. We write open-source code that finds those dips in public telescope data.
Roadmap
The mission
01
2025
Founding
PEI is born as a student initiative across Portuguese universities.
02
2026
First tools
Release of our open-source transit detection toolkit.
03
2027
First results
Publish vetted candidates and datasets openly.
04
2028
Collaborations
Work side by side with researchers and observatories.
Team
The crew
AS
Ana Silva
Founder & Lead
Leadership
JC
João Costa
Research Lead
Leadership
MP
Marta Pereira
Data Scientist
Research
RA
Rui Almeida
Astrophysics
Research
IR
Inês Rocha
Software Engineer
Engineering
TS
Tiago Santos
Outreach
Community
FAQ
Questions
Partners
Who backs us
Your PartnerUniversity AObservatory BScience Center CLab DFoundation EInstitute FJoin
Come explore with us
Coders, physicists, designers, curious minds — every student is welcome.