Phone
226 089 850

Email
mcunha@astro.up.pt

ORCID
0000-0001-8237-7343

Biographic Notes
Margarida Cunha is a Principal Researcher at IA. She was awarded a first degree in Physics/Applied Mathematics by the University of Porto in 1994, the Advanced Certificate in Mathematics (Part III) by the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1995 and a PhD by the University of Cambridge, UK, in 1999. She is a member of IA since its creation.

Current research interests focus on asteroseismology and helioseismology. In particular, she is interested in the development of seismic diagnostic tools aimed at exploring space-based data to infer particular aspects of the stellar physics and understand stellar evolution, as well as on the understanding of the coupling between the magnetic fields and solar/stellar oscillations.

Margarida Cunha is currently chair of the Working Group #4 (AF Classical pulsators) for the TESS Asteroseismic Science Consortium (TASC), in association to the NASA mission TESS, and Chair of the Work Package #124000 (seismic diagnostics), for the PLATO Science Preparation Management (PSM), in association to the ESA PLATO mission.

In addition, she is a member of the WP120 Board for the Stellar Science part of the PLATO PSM and former leader (2015-2018) of the IA group “Origin and Evolution of Stars and Planets”.

Publications
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Lastest publications at IA (or with IA Researchers)M. Deal, M.-J. Goupil, J. Philidet, M. S. Cunha, R. Teissonniere, E. Josselin, 2025,
Glitches in solar-like oscillating F-type stars. Possible contribution of non-linear terms,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 693, 19
>> AbstractD. W. Kurtz, G. Handler, D. L. Holdsworth, M. S. Cunha, H. Saio, T. Medupe, S. J. Murphy, J. Krüger, E. Brunsden, V. Antoci, 2024,
HD 60435: the star that stopped pulsating,
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 536, 2103 - 2126
>> AbstractM. S. Cunha, Y. C. Damasceno, J. Amaral, A. J. G. Falorca, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, P. P. Avelino, 2024,
Buoyancy glitches in pulsating stars revisited,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 687, 17
>> AbstractN. A. M. Moedas, D. Bossini, M. Deal, M. S. Cunha, 2024,
Characterisation of FG-type stars with improved transport of chemical elements,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 684, 17
>> AbstractT. L. Campante, H. Kjeldsen, Y. Li, M. N. Lund, A. M. Silva, E. Corsaro, J. Gomes da Silva, J. H. C. Martins, V. Zh. Adibekyan, T. de Azevedo Silva et al. (including: M. S. Cunha, E. A. S. Cristo, J. P. Faria, M. J. P. F. G. Monteiro, A. W. Neitzel, N. C. Santos, S. G. Sousa), 2024,
Expanding the frontiers of cool-dwarf asteroseismology with ESPRESSO. Detection of solar-like oscillations in the K5 dwarf ϵ Indi,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 683, 10
>> AbstractM.-J. Goupil, C. Catala, R. Samadi, K. Belkacem, R.-M. Ouazzani, D. R. Reese, T. Appourchaux, S. Mathur, J. Cabrera, A. Börner et al. (including: N. A. M. Moedas, M. S. Cunha), 2024,
Predicted asteroseismic detection yield for solar-like oscillating stars with PLATO,
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 683, 24
>> Abstract