Felipe Alarcón Peña

I am a Ph.D. in Astronomy. I am mostly interested in the discovery of protoplanets and the chemistry of planet formation.

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My name is Felipe Alarcón Peña. I’m a Chilean Dr. in Astronomy & Astrophysics from the University of Michigan trying to detect and find more protoplanets, while understanding the chemistry in planet-forming disks. My work is mostly based in hydrodynamics and thermochemical simulations of disks along with observations of them in radio wavelengths with ALMA and in the infrared as well.

![DHSARP Gallery, Andrews et al 2018](https:falarcon.github.io/assets/images/dsharp.png “”)

Protoplanetary disks are thought to be the birthplaces of planets and as such they are very important in constraining their compositions, their origins, and whether or not they could be Earth-like or host life as we know it.

![MAPS Gallery, Oberg et al 2021, Law et al, 2021](https:falarcon.github.io/assets/images/maps.png “”)

Images from the dust millimetric particles such as the DSHARP Gallery show that these disks are very rich in substructures, which could be interpreted as potential signposts of ongoing planet formation. Recent images from the MAPS Collaboration show line emission from important gas tracers in five of these disks showing they have even richer structures across different molecular species, making them interesting objects to study