The Center for Interstellar Catalysis is funded by The Danish National Research Foundation and is hosted by Aarhus University.
The goal of InterCat is to determine whether the molecular building blocks of life can form in interstellar space. We will uncover the degree of chemical complexity attainable via low temperature catalytic reactions on nanoscale interstellar dust grains, thus determining the molecular starting conditions for the origin of life across the universe.
28.04.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
Leiden Professor of Molecular astrophysics Ewine van Dishoeck has been awarded an Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC)
27.04.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
The Leiden team consisting of Ewine van Dishoeck, Melissa McClure and Harold Linnartz have been very successful in securing more than 100 hours of observing time to observe ice and dust in star-forming clouds at the the James Webb Space Telescope.
12.04.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
Professor Ewine van Dishoeck, together with an international team of colleagues, has written an overview of everything we know about water in interstellar clouds thanks to the Herschel space observatory.
08.04.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
InterCat is featured as in-focus piece in ASTROPAH newsletter. See newsletter
18.03.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
Open position at Aarhus University: Associate professor or tenure-track assistant professor in experimental surface science and/or laboratory astrochemistry
15.03.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
Liv Hornekær gives public lecture (in Danish) on Interstellar Catalysis at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
11.03.2021 | Offentligheden / Pressen
Mie Andersen has been awarded a Villum Young Investigator grant to study the design principles for materials that can convert CO2 into fuels or chemicals
19.11.2020 | Offentligheden / Pressen, Medarbejdere
InterCat researchers participate in experiments demonstrating that glycine, the simplest amino acid, can be formed under conditions that are typical for those regions in interstellar space where new stars and planetary systems form.
03.09.2020 | Medarbejdere, Offentligheden / Pressen
On Wednesday, 9 September, the American Chemical Society, Astrochemistry Subdivision will host the first in a series of AstroCheminars that will be held on the second Wednesday of each month at 8 PM CEST (11 AM Pacific Time / 2 PM Eastern Time). Each event will feature one invited and one contributed talk. The inaugural event will feature talks…
06.07.2020 | Offentligheden / Pressen
Bimonthly seminars are organized at 14:00 UTC on Wednesdays for 1-1.5 hrs. The organisers invite participation from the astrochemistry community. Click through to learn how to register.
Learn more about the InterCat webinar series
