Our solar system was born from a dark and cold cloud made out of gas and small dust particles. Thanks to powerful telescopes, we can now study these clouds in detail, their chemical ingredients and their evolution.

Paola Caselli has been Director of the Center for Astrochemical Studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics since 2014. Before this appointment, she was researcher at the Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Florence) until 2005, Visiting Scholar in the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University until 2007, and Professor of Astronomy at the School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds until 2014. She is using interstellar molecules to find how stars and planets form.

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