Dr Helgi Rafn Hróðmarsson

Helgi Rafn Hróðmarsson is a research officer with the CNRS in France in the LISA laboratory in Créteil and holds an adjunct assistant professor position at the University of Iceland. They finished their PhD in chemistry from the University of Iceland in 2026 and is Marie Curie fellow alumni from the Leiden Observatory, Netherlands, and held a postdoctoral position at the SOLEIL synchrtron in France. As a laboratory astrochemist, their research focuses on the spectroscopy and dynamics of molecules of astrophysical interest, covering small molecules, complex organic molecules (COMs), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and fullerenes. Specifically, this work involves laboratory measurements involving (vacuum) ultraviolet light sources, both at synchrotrons and using laboratory sources, aimed at quantifying photoabsorption, photodissociation, and photoionization through measurements of cross sections. These data are made available in databases for the community so they can be used to model these photoprocesses.

 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9613-5684