Scientific Program

The program will start on 21 September at 9:00 a.m. and will finish on 25 September at 12:00 p.m. (noon).

Monday, September 21

9:15 Welcome

Session 1: New Insights from JWST and ALMA - Setting the Stage (Chair: Annemieke Petrignani)

09:30 Ewine van Dishoeck: Laboratory astrophysics in the JWST and ALMA era (35+10)
10:15 Inga Kamp: A unique window into planet formation by combining JWST and ALMA (35+10)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Arshia Jacob: Small molecules and its role in the Universe: A journey through its past and its exciting future (35 +10)
12:15 Maria Drozdovskaya: First results from the COMPASS ALMA Large Program (12+3)
12:30 Caroline Gieser: A song of ice and fire: Linking ice and gas-phase chemistry in the high mass hot core IRAS 18089 (12+3)
12:45 Yao Liu: Dust Properties in Protoplanetary Disks Revealed by JWST/MIRI (12+3)

13:00 Lunch

Session 2: (Exo)-Planetary Atmospheres: A New Challenge (Chair: Thomas Henning)

14:30 Christiane Helling: Different chemical regime in exoplanet atmospheres: From plasma to cloud formation in one atmospheres (35+10)
15:15 Antonio García Munoz: Laboratory, theoretical and modelling needs for exo-aeronomy (25+5)
15:45 Laura Schöller: Pressure Broadening Coefficients of SO₂ by He for Studies of Exoplanetary atmospheres (12+3)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Eva-Maria Ahrer: Observations of Exoplanetary Atmospheres: From highlights and challenges with JWST to upcoming missions (25+5)
17:00 Piero Ferrari: Laboratory far-infrared spectra, fragmentation chemistry and cooling dynamics of sulfur allotropes (12+3)
17:15 Jack Fulker: Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: Disentangling Intrinsic Molecular Chiroptical Response from Environment-Induced Effects (12+3)
17:30 Maëva Louis: Diving into the photochemistry of oxygen- and sulfur-bearing polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: oxanthrene and thianthrene (12+3)
17:45 Sergio Ioppolo: Formation and Stability of the Building Blocks of Life on Space-Relevant Ice Grain Analogs (12+3)

18:15 Bus to town

Tuesday, September 22

Session 3: Spectroscopic Characterization of Molecules and Solids (Chair: Sandra Brünken)

9:15 Stephan Schlemmer: Missing Ions in Laboratory and Space (35+10)
10:00 Cornelia Jäger: Astrochemical reactions on dust grains, chemical and spectral signatures (25+5)
10:30 Luis Bonah: Electronic spectra of mass- and shape-selected polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (12+3)
10:45 Weslley Guilherme Silva: Ground state rotational spectrum of protonated methanol (CH₃OH₂⁺): The first step towards its interstellar detection (12+3)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Emmanuel Dartois: Ice grains spectroscopy from dense cloud to protoplanetary discs: from laboratory to JWST observations. (25 +5)
12:00 Chiara Schleif: High-resolution spectroscopy of HCN⁺ and HNC⁺ using an ion trap setup (12 + 3)
12:15 Cristopher Kreuzig: Measuring & Linking Mid-Infrared SiO₂ - Spectra to Dust Aggregate Growth in the GT4P Levitation Chamber – I. Scientific Approach (12 + 3)
12:30 Karine Demyk: Infrared spectroscopy of gas-phase hydrogenated and methylated pyrenes: from laboratory spectra to the simulated 3.4 µm emission band (12 + 3)
12:45 Florian Foitzik: Helium-Tagging Spectroscopy of PAH and Fullerene Cations (12+3)

13:00 Lunch

Session 4: Complex Organic Molecules (Chair: Christine Joblin)

14:30 José Cernicharo: Overview TBA (35+10)
15:15 Gabi Wenzel: Aromatic Complexity in the Interstellar Medium (25+5)
15:45 Laura Slumstrup: The role of Interstellar Dust in the formation of Complex Organic Molecules (12+3)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Cornelia Meinert: Challenges in the detection of chiral COMs in interstellar ice analogues, meteorites and in the rationalization of their formation pathways (25+5)
17:00 Frederik Eckhardt: Ex-situ mass spectrometry analysis of organic residues from electron-irradiated ethanolamine ice (12 + 3)
17:15 Sergiy Krasnokutski: Formation of Carbonaceous Molecules and Peptides in Space from Formation to Spectroscopic Identification (12 + 3)
17:30 Marissa Maney: Isotopically Constrained Formation of Nitrogen-rich Organic Residues from UV Irradiation of CH3OH:NH3 Astrophysical Ice Analogs (12+3)
17:45 Isabelle Fourré: Gas-phase formation of sulphur-containing interstellar molecules of the HCS-R (R=CN, CCH) family: a computational study. (12+3)

18:00 – 19:00 Posters

19:15 Bus to town

Wednesday, September 23

Session 5: Gas Phase Reaction Rates (Chair: Holger Kreckel)

9:15 Henning Zettergren: Studies of gas phase reactions with cryogenic electrostatic storage rings (35+10)
10:00 Ludovic Biennier: Low-temperature gas-phase reactive collisions explored with uniform supersonic flows (25+5)
10:30 Lukas Berger: Fundamental ion-neutral reactions studied under interstellar conditions (12+3)
10:45 Lucia Enzmann: Low-energy electron collisions with C₆₀⁺ in the Cryogenic Storage Ring (12+3)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Roland Wester: Formation and destruction pathways of interstellar negative ions (25 +5)
12:00 Danial Mahan Mohammadi: Gas-Phase Infrared Spectroscopy of Ethynyl-Bearing PAHs from Electrical Discharge using FELIX (12 + 3)
12:15 Miguel Jiménez-Redondo: Isomer-resolved ion-molecule reaction kinetics of HCO⁺ and HOC⁺ studied in a low-temperature ion trap (12 + 3)
12:30 Marius Gerlach: Spectroscopic product identification and kinetic modelling of the reaction of NCO⁺ and HNCO⁺ with H₂ at cryogenic temperatures (12 + 3)
12:45 Ian Sims: Product branching in the CN + propene reaction at very low temperatures probed by chirped-pulse millimeter wave spectroscopy (12+3)

13:00 Lunch

Lab Tours

Conference dinner

Thursday, September 24

Session 6: Molecular Theory (Chair: Jonathan Tennyson)

9:15 Alexandre Faure: Molecular theory needs for astrochemical modeling (35+10)
10:00 Jérôme Loreau: Collisional excitation of interstellar organic molecules (25+5)
10:30 Sándor Demes: State-to-state collisional data from quantum scattering theories to simulate the rotational excitation of cyclopentadiene in interstellar environments (12+3)
10:45 Stefan Bromley: When Two Worlds Collide: How Dust Grain Collisions can Drive Complex Chemistry (12+3)
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Sergey Yurchenko: ExoMol at All Wavelengths: Spectroscopic Data for Exoplanet Atmospheres from JWST and Ariel to the ELTs (25 +5)
12:00 Zsolt Mezei: Electron-driven reactivity of molecular cations: from mechanisms to cross sections (12 + 3)
12:15 Tobe Vorsselmans: Binding Energies of Sulfur-Bearing Species on Charged Interstellar Ice: A Density Functional Theory Study (12 + 3)
12:30 Niccolò Bancone: TD-DFT Modeling of ECD in Chiral Alcohols: Conformation and Solvation (12 + 3)

13:00 Lunch

Session 7: Surface and Ice Chemistry (Chair: Tushar Suhasaria)

14:30 Liv Hornekaer: Novel Pathways to Complex Organic Molecule Formation in Space (35+10)
15:15 Rafael Martín-Doménech: Exploring the chemical evolution of sulfur in the laboratory (25+5)
15:45 Eddy Abdo: Heavy-ion irradiation of interstellar dust analogs -interaction at the nanometer scale (12+3)
16:00 Coffee Break
16:30 Ko-Ju Chuang: Unlocking the Interstellar Sulfur Puzzle: Laboratory Constraints from Interstellar Ice Chemistry (25+5)
17:00 Frederik Doktor: Are interstellar PAHs more deuterated than they should be? (12 + 3)
17:15 Alfred Thomas Hopkinson: Non-aqueous peptide creation via the energetic processing of glycine (12 + 3)
17:30 Lawry Honold: Advanced Analytical Workflow to Characterize Organic Residue Generated from Astrophysical Ice Analogues (12+3)
17:45 Antoine Hacquard: Impact of Oxygen on Carbonaceous Dust Formation in the presence of Iron under Circumstellar-like Conditions (12+3)

18:00 – 19:00 Posters

19:15 Bus to town

Friday, September 25

Session 8: New Experimental Techniques (Chair: Stephan Schlemmer/Thomas Henning)

9:15 Discussion on future directions
10:00 Deepak Sharma: Toward gas phase spectroscopy of complex molecular ions in a cryogenic ion trap (25+5)
10:30 Christine Joblin: Ion-Molecule Reactions: Efficient Pathways for PAH Growth (12+3)
10:45 Selina Gaisser: A new 4k-pixel microcalorimeter detector MOCCA for molecular fragment mass measurements at CSR (12+3)
11:00 Coffe break
11:30 Jérôme Bernard: Polar Mini-Ring @ SOLEIL: A Cryogenic Electrostatic Ion Storage Ring to Quantify the Relaxation Dynamics of VUV-Excited PAHs (25 +5)
12:00 Suvasthika Indrajith: Probing Charge-Transfer and Ion-Neutral Reactions at Low Energy with a Cryogenic Merged-Beam Device (12 + 3)
12:15 Thibault Nguyen Trung: Heavy ion irradiation of astrophysical ice analogs: Forthcoming improvements at GANIL facilities (12+3)

13:00 Departure / Bus to town