Research
The NSF CCI Center for Chemistry of the Universe will establish a new collaborative research community that combines chemists with expertise in state-of-the-art instrumentation for chemical dynamics research with a group that has pioneered the field of astrochemistry through laboratory work, astronomical observation, and theoretical modeling.
Together these groups will work to move chemistry to the center of international efforts to understand the fundamental chemical processes that produce the first molecules in the interstellar medium.
The two major research areas of the CCU are Molecular Spectroscopy and Reaction Dynamics.