Chemical complexity in the interstellar medium and star formation group

Current projects:

• OPENS (the Onset of Prebiotic chEmistry iN Space)

  • ERC Consolidator Grant

  • Funding agency: European Commission

  • Duration 01/09/2024 - 31/08/2029

  • PI: Izaskun Jiménez-Serra

  • Funds awarded: 1.999.614 €

• Artificial Intelligence Integral Tool for AstroChemical Analysis (AI-ITACA)

  • Project ID: MMT24-CAB-01

  • Funding agency: Program Red.es through the CSIC program Momentum.

  • Duration: 20/11/2024 - 19/12/2028

  • PI: Víctor M. Rivilla

• MOLPOLISM - MOLecular Precursors Of Life in the Interstellar Medium

  • Type: Consolidación investigadora 2023

  • Project ID:CNS2023-144464

  • Funding agency: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)

  • Duration: 01/04/2024 - 30/06/2026

  • PI: Víctor M. Rivilla.

• Sulfur ChEmistry iN The INterstELlar medium (SENTINEL)

  • CSIC i-Link project LINKA20017

  • ID project: ILINK23017

  • Funding agency: CSIC

  • Participating Entities: Centro de Astrobiologí­a (CAB), Instituto de Estructura de la Materia (IEM), Instituto de Física Fundamental (IFF), Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Germany), RIKEN (Japan), Ventspils University (Latvia), University of Cologne (Germany), Stuttgart University (Germany), IPARC (Romania)

  • Duration: 01/01/2024 - 31/12/2025

  • PI: I. Jiménez-Serra (CAB)

  • Funds awarded: 24000 €

• Emergence and Evolution of Chemical COmplexity in Space (EECCOS)

  • Type: Convocatoria Plan Estatal

  • ID project: PID2022-136814NB-I00

  • Funding agency: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)

  • Dates: 01/09/2023 - 31/08/2026

  • Principal Investigators (PIs): Izaskun Jiménez-Serra and Víctor M. Rivilla

  • Funds awarded: 377.500 €

• Cosmic Origins Of Life (COOL)

  • Type: Proyectos intramurales especiales del CSIC, Ayudas de Atracción de Talento RyC 2020

  • ID project: 20225AT015

  • Funding agency: CSIC y Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)

  • Dates: 01/01/2023 - 31/12/2025

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Víctor M. Rivilla

• Cosmic Origins Of Life (COOL)

  • Type: Ramón y Cajal 2020

  • ID project: RYC2020-029387-I

  • Funding agency: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) + CSIC

  • Dates: 01/05/2022 - 30/04/2027

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Víctor M. Rivilla

Previous projects:

• CAB Contribution to SPICA, development of cryogenic instrumentation and multiwavelength scientific exploitation

  • Type: Convocatoria Plan Estatal

  • ID project: PID2019-105552RB-C41

  • Funding agency: Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)

  • Dates: 01/06/2020 - 31/05/2023

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Francisco Najarro de la Parra e Izaskun Jiménez-Serra

• Cosmic Origins Of Life (COOL)

  • Type: Atracción de Talento Modalidad 1 (Doctores con experiencia)

  • ID project: 2019-T1/TIC-15379

  • Funding agency: Comunidad de Madrid

  • Dates: 01/08/2020 - 31/07/2024 (declined)

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Víctor M. Rivilla

• Explorando materiales 2D para el desarrollo de detectores de inductancia cinética

  • ID project: ESP2017-92706-EXP

  • Funding agency: MINECO

  • Dates: 2019-2020

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Jesús Martín-Pintado and Alicia Gómez

• Spanish contribution to the cryogeny of space mission: development for SPICA and ATHENA, post-operational scientific multiwavelength exploitation

  • ID project: ESP2015-65597-C4-1-R

  • Funding agency: MINECO

  • Dates: 2016-2017

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Francisco Najarro y Jesús Martín-Pintado

• Spanish contribution to space mission in the mid- and far-IR: participation in SPICA, and post-operations of Herschel and scientific multiwavelenght exploitation

  • ID project: ESP2013-47809-C3-1-R

  • Funding agency: MINECO

  • Dates: 2014-2015

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Francisco Najarro y Jesús Martín-Pintado

• Spanish contribution to SAFARI/SPICA (Phase B) and HERSCHEL (Phase D). Scientific exploitation of observations in the mid- and far-IR with satellites

  • ID project: AYA2010-21697-C05-01

  • Funding agency: MCINN

  • Dates: 2011-2013

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Jesús Martín-Pintado

• Spanish participation in the far-IR Japanese satellite SPICA

  • ID project: AYA2010-09959-E

  • Funding agency: MICINN

  • Dates: 2011

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Jesús Martín-Pintado

• HERSCHEL: Contribution to the Control Center of the HIFI instrument and to the Scientific Program

  • ID project: ESP2007-65812-C02-01

  • Funding agency: MICINN

  • Dates: 2008-2010

  • Principal Investigator (PI): Jesús Martín-Pintado