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Alessandra Candian is an Assistant Professor at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy at the University of Amsterdam. She holds a Master's degree in Physics from the University of Padova and a PhD in Astrophysical Chemistry from the University of Nottingham. In 2012, she joined Leiden Observatory as a postdoctoral researcher and was awarded the VENI grant in 2016. In 2019, she moved to the University of Amsterdam, where she worked as an Assistant Research Professor at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences and later as an Open Science Academic Skills teacher at TU Delft. Her research focuses on the properties of carbon-containing molecules in space and on planets, utilizing a multidisciplinary collaborative approach that includes theoretical chemistry calculations, modeling, experiments, and astronomical observations. The main goal of her research is to address key questions regarding the formation and evolution of carbonaceous molecules in the Interstellar medium and in the atmospheres of celestial bodies like Titan.
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