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Research Interests

Photo-chemistry

  • Infrared photons
  • E/VUV photons
  • X-ray

Molecular

Astrophysics

Spectroscopy

  • IR spectroscopy
  • UV spectroscopy
  • Surface reaction
  • Photo-chemistry
  • Reactive desorption

Astrochemistry

Complex Organic Molecules

  • Carbon-materials

  • Silicate-materials

Atomic

reactions

  • H-atoms
  • O-atoms
  • N-atoms
  • C-atoms

Mass-Spectrometry

Poster

Solid-state H2S reactions with H and C atoms on dust grains under molecular cloud conditions

Lorentz Center Workshop– Tracing Sulfur from Molecular Clouds to the Origin of Life, 2022 Leiden, The Netherlands 

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The solid-state formation of complex organic molecules from dust fragment analogues (C2H2)

WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Chemical Evolution of Cosmic Matter, 2019

Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany

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Solid-state production of complex organic molecules: H-atom addition versus UV irradiation

IAU S332: Astrochemistry VII, 2017

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Puerto Varas, Chile

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Extraterrestrial origin of the simplest amide-NH2CHO in interstellar ice analogs upon UV irradiation

The Molecular Origins of Life, 2022

Munich, Germany

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H2 photochemistry in interstellar ices: the formation of HCO in UV irradiated CO:H2 ice mixtures

IAU S350: Laboratory Astrophysics: from Observations to Interpretation, 2019

Cambridge, UK

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H-atom Addition and Abstraction Reactions in Mixed CO/H2CO/CH3OH Ices

European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics (ECLA), 2016

Madrid, Spain

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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

From clouds to planets II–
The Astrochemical Link

Berlin, Germany (2022.10)

Formation of complex organic molecules in molecular clouds: the top-down mechanism through non-energetic/ energetic processing of C2H2 ice

Lorentz Center Workshop–
Tracing Sulfur from Molecular Clouds to the Origin of Life

Leiden, the Netherlands (2022.09)

Solid-state H2S reactions with H and C atoms on dust grains under molecular cloud conditions (poster)

Chemistry And Physics at Low Temperatures

Visegrád, Hungary (2022.07)

Formation of the simplest amide in molecular clouds: formamide and its derivatives in interstellar ice analogs upon VUV irradiation

The Molecular Origins of Life

Munich, Germany (2022.06)

Extraterrestrial origin of the simplest amide-NH2CHO in interstellar ice analogs upon UV irradiation (poster)

Laboratory Astrophysics Workshop–
Dust, Ice, and complex molecules in the ISM

Dornburg-Camburg, Germany (2021.11)

Formamide formation in H2O-rich and CO-rich interstellar ice analogs

European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics–
Linking dust, ice, and gas in space

Anacapri, Italy (2021.09)

Formation of complex molecules in the translucent phase via “non-energetic” pro-cessing of C2H2 ice

703. WE-Heraeus-Seminar–
Chemical Evolution of Cosmic Matter

Bad Honnef, Germany (2019.10)

The solid-state formation of complex organic molecules from dust fragment analogues C2H2 (poster)

International Astronomical Union Symposia 350: Laboratory Astrophysics – from Observations to Interpretation

Cambridge, UK (2019.04)

H2 photochemistry in interstellar ices: the formation of HCO in UV irradiated CO:H2 ice mixtures (poster)

International Astronomical Union Symposia 332: Astrochemistry VII – Through the Cosmos from Galaxies to Planets

Puerto Varas, Chile (2017.03)

Solid state production of complex organic molecules: H-atom addition versus UV irradiation (poster)

European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics – Gas on the Rocks

Madrid, Spain (2016.11)

H-atom addition and abstraction reactions in mixed CO/H2CO/CH3OH ices (poster)

Laboratory Astrophysics–
Interstellar Gas, Dust, and Ice

Kreuth, Germany (2016.09)

COM formation in the laboratory: A Quantitative Comparison between Hydrogenation and VUV-Irradiation

Netherlands Research School for Astronomy (NOVA) Fall School

Dwingeloo, the Netherlands (2015.10)

Formation of complex organics in dark clouds

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