Portrait of Dr Marie Van de Sande

Astrochemistry of evolved stars

Dr Marie Van de Sande

Oort Fellow at Leiden Observatory

I develop chemical kinetics models of the outflows of Asymptotic Giant Branch stars and use them to interpret observations of these complex environments.

  • AGB stars
  • Dust formation
  • Chemical kinetics
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ERC Starting Grant

ASHES starts in August 2026 at University College Dublin

ASHES will quantify how the dust produced by AGB stars depends on the specific outflow from which it originates.