Paola Caselli - Curriculum Vitae#

• 1990 Laurea (Master Thesis) in Astronomy (110/110 cum Laude), Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna
  
• 1994 PhD in Astronomy, Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università di Bologna, Italy

• 2014 Director of the Center for Astrochemical Studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany (http://www.mpe.mpg.de/CAS)
  
• 2014 Honorary Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
  
• 2019 - 2023 Managing Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
  
• 2014 - 2020 Visiting Professor, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK
  
• 2017 - 2018 Visiting Professor at the Department of Astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville
  
• 2012 - 2016 Courtesy Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
  
• 2007 - 2014 Professor of Astronomy, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK
  
• 2009 - 2011 Head of Astrophysics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK
  
• 1995 - 2007 Researcher at the INAF–Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri, Firenze, Italy
  
• 2006 - 2007 Visiting Scholar in the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
  
• 2005 Visiting Scientist in the Astronomy Department, University of California at Berkeley, USA
  
• 2001 - 2007 Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK
  
• 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
  
• 1994 - 1995 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA
  
• 1993 - 1994 Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
  
• 1992 - 1993 Visiting Student at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, USA
  
• 1992 Visiting Student at The Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  
• 1991 - 1992 Fellowship at the Istituto di Spettroscopia Molecolare, C.N.R., Bologna, Italy

• 2006 - 2007 Visiting Lecturer Scholarship at the Department of Astronomy, Harvard University
  
• 2012 European Research Council Advanced Grant
  
• 2018 Jubilee Professor at Chalmers University of Technology
  
• 2019 - 2021 Hasselblad Guest Professorship at the Onsala Space Observatory
  
• 2020 - 2022 Blaauw Professorship at the University of Groningen

• 2008 Member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute Review Panel (NAI CAN5)
  
• 2014 Member of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Review Panel
  
• 2014 Member of the STFT Ernest Rutherford Fellowship Committee
  
• 2015 Member and co-founder of the Astrochemistry Commission H2 Astrochemistry of the International Astronomical Union
• 2016 Member of the Origins of Life Initiative in Munich (OLIM; https://www.biosystems.physik.uni-muenchen.de/olim/index.html)
  
• 2017 Chair of the ALMA Review Panels in Scientific Category 3 (ISM, Star Formation and Astrochemistry)
  
• 2019 Member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Astrophysics – FORTH, Greece
  
• 2019 Member and one of the PIs of the ORIGINS Excellence Cluster in Munich (https://www.origins-cluster.de)
  
• 2020 - 2022 Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC), Spain
  
• 2020 Member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy, Taiwan
  
• 2021 President of the IAU H2 Commission (Astrochemistry)
  
• 2021 ERC Advanced Grant Committee member
  
• 2022 Mentor at the Max Planck Society Elisabeth Schiemann Kolleg
  
• 2024 Member of the Senior Science Committee for the Expanding Horizons preparatory phase, European Southern Observatory