# HARVARD PORTRAIT Karin Öberg January 22, 2023 - [ News ](/news-categories/news) GROWING UP IN Lutheran Sweden, Karin Öberg had no inkling that she would one day become an astrochemist, the first to observe a complex organic molecule in the freezing cloud of gas and dust surrounding a young star—or that she would convert to Catholicism. See also:- [ Press ](/news-items/team) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)