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Supervisors

I am thrilled to be part of PANIONS, where we will work together and train a new generation of researchers on fundamental science and applications of negative ions – a class of molecules also present in the depths of space.
Dr. Sandra Brünken

Dr. Sandra Brünken

Radboud University (RU) and HFML-FELIX

Sandra Brünken is an Associate Professor at Radboud University and group leader at the national institute HFML-FELIX in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Sandra received her PhD in experimental physics in 2005 from the University of Cologne (Germany). She then did postdoctoral research in the fields of molecular spectros-copy and astrochemistry at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge (US), where she was part of the team that discovered the first molecular anions in space, at EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland), and at the University of Cologne. In 2017 she joined Radboud University and HFML-FELIX. The research in her group aims at understanding chemical evolution in astrophysical environments, such as interstellar star-forming regions or planetary atmospheres, by using spectroscopy and chemical kinetics under conditions simulating those in space.

Dr. Sandra Brünken supervises

  • DC7: Vibrational spectroscopy of molecular anions relevant in interstellar and planetary chemistry

F. Dahlmann, P. Jusko, M. Lara-Moreno, P. Halvick, A.N. Marimuthu, T. Michaelsen, R. Wild, K. Geist-linger, S. Schlemmer, T. Stoecklin, R. Wester, and S. Brünken
“Predissociation spectroscopy of CN-H2 and CN-D2”
Mol. Phys. 120 (2022) e2085204. https://doi.org/10.1080/00268976.2022.2085204

B.A. McGuire, O. Asvany, S. Brünken, and S. Schlemmer
“Laboratory spectroscopy techniques to enable observations of interstellar ion chemistry”
Nat. Rev. Phys. 2 (2020) 402-410. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-020-0198-0

P. Jusko, S. Brünken, O. Asvany, S. Thorwirth, A. Stoffels, L. van der Meer, G. Berden, B. Redlich, J. Oomens ,and S. Schlemmer
“The FELion cryogenic ion trap beam line at the FELIX free-electron laser laboratory: Infrared signa-tures of primary alcohol cations”,
Faraday Discuss. 217 (2019) 172-202. https://doi.org/10.1039/C8FD00225H

S. Brünken, O. Sipilä, E.T. Chambers, J. Harju, P. Caselli, O. Asvany, C.E. Honingh, T. Kaminski, K.M. Menten, J. Stutzki, and S. Schlemmer
“H2D+ observations give an age of at least one million years for a cloud core forming Sun-like stars”,
Nature 516 (2014), 219. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature13924

S. Brünken, H. Gupta, C. A. Gottlieb, M. C. McCarthy and P. Thaddeus
“Detection of the Carbon Chain Negative Ion C8H- in TMC-1 “,
ApJ 664 (2007), L43-46. https://doi.org/10.1086/520703

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