Doctoral Candidates (DCs)

Whenever there are arguments between engineers and pure scientists about who is better, I don’t have to choose sides! I am an Aerospace Engineer by bachelor’s training (2018-2022). During my bachelor’s I got into astrophysics research with internships on Solar Activity research, Dark Matter modelling in spiral galaxies leading to my bachelor’s thesis on numerical simulations of gas filaments. Soon after, I got inducted into a master’s program in Astrophysics at Ludwig Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany (2023-2025). My master’s thesis was in the field of exoplanetary atmospheres. Using the Wendelstein Telescope (owned by LMU) in the Bavarian alps, I performed high-resolution spectroscopic observations and analyses of gas giant exoplanets to characterize their atmospheres. I have recently started my PhD under the PANIONS project at Radboud University at the HFML-FELIX institute. Here, my focus will be on laboratory characterization of anions of astrophysical interest which can eventually be observed using infrared telescopes. As a physicist, I would like to use the expertise of my colleagues in the DarChemDN to form a chemical perspective of the project, eventually leading to an interesting interdisciplinary project.