Sara Cuadrado, Postdoctoral researcher at Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF, CSIC)
Research interests: Astrochemistry, astrobiology, radioastronomy, physics and chemistry of the interstellar medium, photodissociation regions.
Academic formation:
– BSc in Chemistry, Universidade da Coruña. (2009; Credits: 300)
– MSc. Astrophysics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid & Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (2012; Credits: 120). Master’s Thesis: “Molecular content in photodissociation regions: The Orion Bar PDR” under the supervision of J.R. Goicoechea and J. Cernicharo.
Positions:
– Department of Physics, Universidade da Coruña. (2008)
– FPI-INTA fellow, Department of Astrophysics, Centro de Astrobiología, INTA-CSIC. (2014)
– PhD candidate at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC. (Thesis defense: September 15, 2017)
Peer-reviewed papers (11 papers in A&A, ApJ & Nature; 147 citations):
(Link to ADS –Astrophysics Data System)
– S. Cuadrado, J.R. Goicoechea et al. “Complex organic molecules in strongly UV-irradiated gas”. Submitted to Astronomy & Astrophysics (2017).
– J.R. Goicoechea, S. Cuadrado, et al. “Spatially resolved images of reactive ions in the Orion Bar”. Astronomy & Astrophysics, arXiv:1704.08621 (2017).
– S. Cuadrado, J. Goicoechea et al. “Trans-cis molecular photoswitching in interstellar space”. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 596, id.L1, 10 pp. (2016). 2 citations.
– J.R. Goicoechea, J. Pety, S. Cuadrado et al. “Compression and ablation of the photo-irradiated molecular cloud the Orion Bar“. Nature 537, 207-209 (2016). 9 citations.
– J.R. Goicoechea, S. Cuadrado et al. “The Fundamental Structure of UV-Irradiated Cloud Edges: Combined ALMA and IRAM-30m Observations of the Orion Bar”. Vol. 499, Revolution in Astronomy with ALMA: The Third Year, 185 (2015).
– J.R. Goicoechea, D. Teyssier, […], S. Cuadrado et al. “Velocity-resolved [CII] Emission and [CII]/FIR Mapping along Orion with Herschel” The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 812, Issue 1, article id. 75, 21 pp. (2015). 18 citations.
– S. Cuadrado, J.R. Goicoechea et al. “The chemistry and spatial distribution of small hydrocarbons in UV irradiated molecular clouds: the Orion Bar PDR (Corrigendum)”. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 579, id.C1, 1 pp. (2015).
– S. Cuadrado, J.R. Goicoechea et al. “The chemistry and spatial distribution of small hydrocarbons in UV irradiated molecular clouds: the Orion Bar PDR”. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 575, id.A82, 31 pp. (2015). 23 citations.
– J.R. Goicoechea, L. Chavarría, […], S. Cuadrado et al. “Herschel far-infrared spectral-mapping of Orion BN/KL outflows: spatial distribution of excited CO, H2O, OH, O and C+ in shocked gas”. The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 799, Issue 1, article id. 102, 17 pp. (2015). 19 citations.
– H. S. P. Müller, J.R. Goicoechea, […], S. Cuadrado et al. “Revised spectroscopic parameters of SH+ from ALMA and IRAM 30 m observations”. Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume 569, id.L5, 5 pp. (2014). 8 citations.
– S. Cuadrado-Prado, M. Domínguez-Pérez et al. “Experimental measurement of the hygroscopic grade on eight imidazolium based ionic liquids”. Fluid Phase Equilibria 278, 36-40 (2009). 68 citations.