Katharina Lodders

Katharina Lodders is a Research Professor in the Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, affiliated with the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences. Her research focuses on solar system element abundances, gas/dust condensation chemistry in astronomical environments, and planetary formation processes. She conducts experimental and theoretical studies in planetary science and cosmochemistry, collaborating with Bruce Fegley in the Planetary Chemistry Laboratory.

Education: Ph.D. from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität and Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie in Mainz, Germany.

Research interests include elemental composition of the solar system, star dust formation in cool stellar atmospheres, chemical processes in accretion disks, meteorite parent body formation, and planetary accretion/differentiation. Her work also addresses chemical thermodynamics in stellar environments such as extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs.

Labs/Teams: Planetary Chemistry Laboratory (collaboration with Bruce Fegley).