Kemper, Francisca
Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
Institut de Ciències de l'Espai (CSIC - ICE)
Phone +34937379788(ext.933058)
Email ciska.kemper@icrea.cat
Department Interstellar and Circumstellar Matter (ICSM) Group
Address Carrer de Can Magrans
Keywords
astrophysical dust
infrared spectroscopy
submm
radio astronomy
astromineralogy
interstellar medium
silicates
nanoclusters
Short biography
After obtaining her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Amsterdam in 2002, Ciska Kemper moved to UCLA in Los Angeles, California, to take up a Spitzer Fellowship. In 2005 she joined the faculty of University of Virginia, and in 2006 she moved to the UK to take up a faculty position at the University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. In 2010 she moved to Taiwan for a research faculty position at the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of Academia Sinica. In this position she formally joined several telescope projects, including the Atacama Large Millimetre/Submillimetre Array (ALMA), which ultimately led to her appointment as the European ALMA Programme Scientist at the European Southern Observatory in Garching, Germany, in 2018. In 2022 she joined the Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC) as an ICREA Research Professor. Ciska Kemper was awarded the Grand Prix Scientifique de la Fondation Franco-Taiwanaise jointly with Suzanne Madden in 2017.