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The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an Advanced Grant to six Leiden researchers. It awards these significant grants to established principal investigators for ground-breaking, high-risk research.
This year’s grants have been awarded to three researchers from the Faculty of Science, two from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences and one from the LUMC. They conduct research into the most diverse topics, from Iranian propaganda to the birth of galaxies. Below are the laureates, in alphabetic order.
Astronomer Ewine Van Dishoeck has made a valuable contribution to our knowledge about ‘interstellar clouds’, large clouds of gas and dust that are the birthplace of planets and stars. She has shown how molecules arise in these interstellar clouds and clump together to form the building blocks of complete planetary systems like our own solar system. Van Dishoeck’s research is highly important in determining whether life is possible on other planets. She wo
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Detailing the Formation of Distant Solar Systems with NASA s Webb Telescope
We live in a mature solar system eight planets and several dwarf planets (like Pluto) have formed, the latter within the rock- and debris-filled region known as the Kuiper Belt. If we could turn back time, what would we see as our solar system formed? While we can’t answer this question directly, researchers can study other systems that are actively forming along with the mix of gas and dust that encircles their still-forming stars to learn about this process.
A team led by Dr. Thomas Henning of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, will employ NASA s upcoming James Webb Space Telescope to survey more than 50 planet-forming disks in various stages of growth to determine which molecules are present and ideally pinpoint similarities, helping to shape what we know about how solar systems assemble.
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