Molecular Clusters [Dance Your PhD 2020/2021 OVERALL WINNER]

Authors: Jakub Kubečka, Ivo Neefjes, Vitus Besel et al. About: Jakub Kubečka, Ivo Neefjes, and Vitus Besel (Twitter: @Supervitux) are PhD students of Atmospheric Science at the Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research (INAR), University of Helsinki, Finland. All of their research revolves or has revolved around the computational study of atmospheric molecular clusters. Jakub particularly deals with searching for the low energy structures of molecular clusters, whereas Ivo studies their fragmentation in APi-TOF mass spectrometers. Vitus investigated the formation of ammonia—sulfuric acid clusters in his Master’s thesis, but for his PhD started to work on vapor pressures of organic molecules in the atmosphere. Dance Your PhD is a competition organized by Science Magazine: Covid: The filmmaking process was completely conducted in agreement with local COVID-19 rules. All filming was done with masks on or outdoors. The office scene as well as