resp. : Pr PHILIPPE PARENT

This theme will tackle key issues in planetary and interstellar astrochemistry, addressing both gas-phase and solid-gas processes through theoretical and experimental studies:

• For gas-phase processes: the main goal will be to bring new insights in the understanding of appearance and disappearance of chemical species in the interstellar medium and the planetary atmospheres (Earth included)
• For solid-gas processes: the study will concern the role of heterogeneous chemistry involving atoms and small radicals in the formation of the key molecules in the interstellar space media and their evolution on the way to complexity