Paola Caselli#
| Membership Number: | 7139 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | EARTH & COSMIC SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.mpe.mpg.de/CAS |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-1481-7911 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2014 - present Director of the Center for Astrochemical Studies at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
- 2014 - present Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- 2019 - 2023 Managing Director of the Max Planck Insitute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
- 2007 - 2014 Professor of Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- 2009 - 2011 Head of Astrophysics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
- 2006 - 2007 Visiting Scholar in the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
- 1995 - 2007 Researcher at INAF-Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
- 1994 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Star formation
- Astrochemistry
- Astrophysics
- Astrochemical laboratory experiments
Honours and Awards
- 2020 - 2022 Blaauw Professor at the University of Groningen
- 2019-2021 Hasselblad Guest Professor at the Onsala Space Observatory
- 2018 Jubilee Professor at Chalmers University of Technology
- 2014 Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
- 2012 European Research Council Advanced Grant
- 2006 - 2007 Visiting Lecturer Scholarship at the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
