Author: Nienke van der Marel

Nienke van der Marel is an Assistant professor at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD at Leiden University in 2015, followed by research fellowships at University of Hawaii, NRC Herzberg and University of Victoria (BC, Canada) before returning to her alma mater. Her expertise is the study of structures of gas and dust in protoplanetary disks with ALMA Observatory and the connection with planet-disk interaction models.

Filling the Gap in our Knowledge of Planet Formation with the Next Generation Very Large Array

Posted on January 19, 2021January 29, 2021 | By Nienke van der Marel

Astronomy is all about our origin: where do we come from? What is the origin of the Earth and…

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