I am a PhD candidate at the Laboratory for Astrophysics at Leiden University studying the survival of molecular precursors of biologically relevant molecules in space.
I received my bachelor's degree in Engineering Physics and master's degree in Electromagnetics, Fusion, and Space Engineering focusing on space and plasma physics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Alongside my master studies, I completed a 6 month internship at the European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)
- ESA where I studied the plasma environment effect on lunar regolith and spacecraft charging, as well as lunar dust transport. For my master's thesis project, I studied the plasma plume propagation from an electric propulsion system under high vacuum conditions.
My PhD research involves investigating how interstellar organics form, transform, and survive under harsh conditions. Through laboratory simulations and computational modeling, I will study the processing of interstellar icy-dust grains during the exposure of infrared and ultraviolet irradiation, with a focus on the ice-dust interface chemistry. As a part of this work, I am building a new experimental setup called Apparatus for Nanoparticle ANd ice Astrochemical Study
(ANANAS) in the lab in Leiden that will allow us to study ice covered interstellar dust analogs at ultra-high vacuum (UHV) and 10 K conditions.
