#  Dr. Julia Santos 

 

 



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Julia Santos is a 51 Pegasi b Fellow who studies the chemical makeup of  
planet-forming regions. She uses vacuum cryogenic setups to recreate the  
chemistry occurring on interstellar icy dust grains and employs  
submillimeter and infrared observations to characterize the molecular  
inventory within these environments. Julia earned her PhD in  
Astrophysics, cum laude, from Leiden University.



 

 

 





 

 

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