ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The advent of modern space instruments and ground based radio telescopes for ice and gas-phase molecular detections has brought astrochemistry into a golden age. In just the last five years, more than 30% of all known interstellar molecules have been detected—a staggering figure for a field with a history of several decades. Along with the numbers, the chemical complexity has also grown to complex organics and aromatic molecules. However, this rapid expansion presents critical challenges for understanding interstellar chemical complexity. The most pressing of these is the increasing number of detected isomers, molecules that share the same molecular formula but differ in their structure.…
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