PD Dr. Cornelia Jäger is from Laboratory Astrophysics and Clusterphysics Group, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Institute of Solid State Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. She is a collaborator under InterCat.

Areas of expertise:

· Formation, processing and stability of cosmic dust analogs such as carbonaceous and siliceous grains of different compositions and structure in various cosmic environments and the spectral properties of dust anaologs.

· UV/Vis/IR spectroscopy of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including substituted and hydrogenated PAHs in free jets and cryogenic rare gas matrices

· catalytic influence of dust surfaces on astrochemical reactions in ice layers triggered by UV and X-ray photons  and erosion of dust grains at the interface dust/ice