Juan Carlos Gómez Martín

Prof. John Plane's equipment, previously located at the Challenger Laboratory in the School of Chemistry at the University of Leeds, was transferred in September 2023 to IAA-CSIC in Granada. This transfer included a set of excimer, Nd:YAG, and dye lasers, along with a photo-ionization ToF (Time of Flight) mass spectrometer. This equipment forms the foundation of the new Studies of Gas-to-Particle Conversion Kinetics Laboratory (SPARKSLAB) at IAA. I am currently conducting new laboratory work at SPARKSLAB on gas-phase metal chemistry. This research is aimed at understanding new particle formation processes of relevance to planetary atmospheres and astrophysical environments.