Melissa McClure
Associate professor
- Name
- Dr. M.K. McClure
- Telephone
- 071 5278490
- mcclure@strw.leidenuniv.nl
News
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For the first time, astronomers witness the dawn of a new solar system -
Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants -
First detailed picture of ice in planet-forming disk -
Tracking the origin and evolution of molecules in space -
The James Webb Telescope takes stunning photos. But what exactly are we looking at? -
Leiden astronomers find building blocks for life in the darkest spots of star-forming cloud -
Leiden astronomers launch biggest space-ice database ever: ‘A kind of phone book, but for ice’
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Tracing space ice and the building blocks of life
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Astronomers see star with dust disk that is still being fed
PhD candidates
Associate professor
- Sterrewacht
- Observatory Research
- Astrochemical Planet Formation
- Rocha W.R.M., McClure M.K., Sturm J.A., Beck T.L., Smith Z.L., Dickinson H., Sun F., Egami E., Boogert A.C.A., Fraser H.J., Dartois E., Jimenez-Serra I., Noble J.A., Bergner J., Caselli P., Charnley S.B., Chiar J., Chu L., Cooke I., Crouzet N., Dishoeck E.F. van, Drozdovskaya M.N., Garrod R., Harsono D., Ioppolo S., Jin M., Jørgensen J.K., Lamberts T., Lis D.C., Melnick G.J., McGuire B.A., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Qasim D., Shope B., Urso R.G., Viti S. & Linnartz H. (2025), Ice inventory towards the protostar Ced 110 IRS4 observed with the James Webb Space Telescope: results from the Early Release Science Ice Age program, Astronomy and Astrophysics 693: A288.
- Smith Z.L., Dickinson H.J., Fraser H.J., McClure M.K., Noble J.A., Boogert A.C.A., Sun F., Egami E., Dartois E., Erkal J., Shimonishi T., Beck T.L., Bergner J.B., Caselli P., Charnley S.B., Chu L., Drozdovskaya M.N., Garrod R., Harsono D., Ioppolo S., Jimenez-Serra I., Jørgensen J.K., Melnick G.J., Ã-berg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Pontoppidan K.M., Qasim D., Rocha W.R.M., Sturm J.A., Taillard A., Urso R.G. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2025), Cospatial ice mapping of H2O with CO2 and CO across a molecular cloud with JWST/NIRCam, Nature Astronomy 9: 883-894.
- Assani K.D., Li Z.-Y., Ramsey J.P., Tychoniec Ł., Francis L., Le Gouellec V.J.M., Caratti o Garatti A., Giannini T., McClure M., Bjerkeli P., Calcutt H., Beuther H., Devaraj R., Liu X., Plunkett A., Navarro M.G., Dishoeck E.F. van & Harsono D. (2025), Mid-infrared extinction curve for protostellar envelopes from JWST-detected embedded jet emission: the case of TMC1A, Astronomy and Astrophysics 701: A175.
- Poorta J., Hogerheijde M.R., Koter A. de, Kaper L., Backs F., Ramírez Tannus M.C., McClure M.K., Hygate A.P.S., Rab C., Klaassen P.D. & Derkink A. (2025), ALMA detections of circumstellar disks in the giant H II region M17: probing the intermediate- to high-mass pre-main-sequence population, Astronomy and Astrophysics 694: A295.
- Jiménez-Serra I., Megías A., Salaris J., Cuppen H., Taillard A., Jin M., Wakelam V., Vasyunin A.I., Caselli P., Pendleton Y.J., Dartois E., Noble J.A., Viti S., Borshcheva K., Garrod R.T., Lamberts T., Fraser H., Melnick G., McClure M., Rocha W., Drozdovskaya M.N. & Lis D.C. (2025), Modelling methanol and hydride formation in the JWST Ice Age era, Astronomy and Astrophysics 695: A247.
- McClure M.K., van't Hoff M., Francis L., Bergin E., Rocha W.R.M., Sturm J.A., Harsono D., Dishoeck E.F. van, Black J.H., Noble J.A., Qasim D. & Dartois E. (2025), Refractory solid condensation detected in an embedded protoplanetary disk, Nature 643(8072): 649-653.
- Zeegers S.T., Marshall J.P., Gordon K.D., Misselt K.A., Otten G.P.P.L., Bouwman J., Chiar J., Decleir M., Dharmawardena T., Kemper F., Li A., Narang M., Potapov A., Puravankara M., Scicluna P., Tyagi H., Zari E., Wei C., Kaper L., Backs F., Bromley S.T., Chu L., Costantini E., Geballe T.R., Green J.D., Gunasekera C., Günay B., Henning T., Jones O., Mariñoso Guiu J., McClure M., Pendleton Y.J., Roman-Duval J.C., Shenar T., Tielens A.G.G.M. & Waters L.B.F.M. (2025), Investigating silicate, carbon, and water in the diffuse interstellar medium: the first shots from WISCI, The Astrophysical Journal 987(1): 25.
- Dartois E., Noble J.A., McClure M.K., Sturm J.A., Beck T.L., Arulanantham N., Drozdovskaya M.N., Espaillat C.C., Harsono D., Palumbo M.-E., Pendleton Y.J. & Pontoppidan K.M. (2025), The edge-on disc Tau 042021: icy grains at high altitudes and a wind containing astronomical polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, Astronomy and Astrophysics 698: A8.
- Narang M., Ohashi N., Tobin J.J., McClure M.K., Jørgensen J.K. & Sai (Insa Choi) J. (2025), An embedded disk (eDisk) in the IceAge: investigating the jet and outflow from Ced 110 IRS4, Astronomical Journal 169(4): 192.
- Vleugels C., McClure M., Sturm A. & Vlasblom M. (2025), The H_2 jet and disk wind of the Class I protostar HOPS 315, Astronomy and Astrophysics 695: A145.
- Lovell J., Trapman L., Bergner J., Doney K., Leisawitz D., McClure M.K., Mundy L., Najita J. & Wilner D. (2025), Tracing the physical and astrochemical assembly of planetary systems in the far-infrared at high angular resolution, American astronomical society meeting abstracts #245. 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society 12 January 2025 - 16 January 2025. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 245. Washington: AAS Publishing.
- Maucó K., Manara C.F., Bayo A., Hernández J., Campbell-White J., Calvet N., Ballabio G., Aru M.L., Alcalá J.M., Ansdell M., Briceño C., Facchini S., Haworth T.J., McClure M.K. & Williams J.P. (2025), A new look at disk winds and external photoevaporation in the σ-Orionis cluster, Astronomy and Astrophysics 693: A87.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K., Gelder M.L. van, Francis L.K.S., Brunken N.G.C., Slavicinska K., Tychoniec Ł. & Sturm J.A. (2024), Where it all begins: protostars contain the icy ingredients crucial for the genesis of habitable planets, EAS2024, European Astronomical Society annual meeting. EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 1 July 2024 - 5 July 2024. Padova.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., Gomes Rachid M., Olsthoorn B., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K., Slavicinska K. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2024), SPECFY: an important tool of the Leiden ice database for astrochemistry in the era of the James Webb space telescope, IAU Symposium. IAU Symposium 371 9 August 2022 - 11 August 2022 no. 371. Busan: Cambridge university press. 67-71.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., W.R.M., Gomes Rachid M., McClure M.K., He J. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2024), Water ice: temperature-dependent refractive indexes and their astrophysical implications, Astronomy & Astrophysics 681: A9.
- Bergner J.B., Sturm J.A., Piacentino E.L., McClure M.K., Öberg K.I., Boogert A.C.A., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Fraser H.J., Harsono D., Ioppolo S., Law C.J., Lis D.C., McGuire B.A., Melnick G.J., Noble J.A., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Qasim D., Rocha W.R. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2024), JWST ice band profiles reveal mixed ice compositions in the HH 48 NE disk, The Astrophysical Journal 975(2): 166.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Harsono D., Bergner J.B., Dartois E., Boogert A.C.A., Cordiner M.A., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Law C.J., Lis D.C., McGuire B.A., Melnick G.J., Noble J.A., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Urso R.G. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2024), A JWST/MIRI analysis of the ice distribution and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon emission in the protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE, Astronomy & Astrophysics 689: A92.
- Delabrosse V., Dougados C., Cabrit S., Tabone B., Tychoniec L., Ray T., Podio L. & McClure M.K. (2024), JWST study of the DG Tau B disk-wind candidate: I. Overview and nested H2-CO outflows, Astronomy & Astrophysics 688: A173.
- Delabrosse V., Dougados C., Cabrit S., Tabone B., Tychoniec L., Ray T., Podio L. & McClure M.K. (2024), JWST study of the DG Tau B ALMA disk wind candidate, EAS2024, European Astronomical Society annual meeting. EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 1 July 2024 - 5 July 2024. Padova.
- Noble J.A., Fraser H.J., Smith Z.L., Dartois E., Boogert A.C.A., Cuppen H.M., Dickinson H.J., Dulieu F., Egami E., Erkal J., Giuliano B.M., Husquinet B., Lamberts A.L.M., Maté B., McClure M.K., Palumbo M.E., Shimonishi T., Sun F., Bergner J.B., Brown W.A., Caselli P., Congiu E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Herrero V.J., Ioppolo S., Jimenez-Serra I., Linnartz H.V.J., Melnick G.J., McGuire B.A., Oberg K.I., Perotti G., Qasim D., Rocha W.R.M. & Urso R.G. (2024), Detection of the elusive dangling OH ice features at 2.7 μm in Chamaeleon I with JWST NIRCam, Nature Astronomy 8: 1169-1180.
- Kulterer B.M., Wampfler S.F., Ligterink N.F.W., Murillo N., Hsieh T.-H., McClure M.K., Boogert A., Kipfer K., Bjerkeli P. & Drozdovskaya M.N. (2024), Post-outburst chemistry in a very Low-Luminosity object: peculiar high abundance of nitric oxide, Astronomy & Astrophysics 691: A281.
- Espaillat C.C., Thanathibodee T., Zhu Z., Rabago I., Wendeborn J., Calvet N., Zamudio-Ruvalcaba L., Volz M., Pittman C., McClure M., Babb J.F., Franco-Hernández R., Macías E., Reynolds M. & Yan P.-G. (2024), Evidence for dust depletion in a misaligned protoplanetary disk with JWST, Astrophysical Journal Letters 973(1): L16.
- Arulanantham N., McClure M.K., Pontoppidan K., Beck T.L., Sturm J.A., Harsono D., Boogert A.C.A., Cordiner M., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Espaillat C., Melnick G.J., Noble J.A., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Terada H. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2024), JWST MIRI MRS images of disk winds, water, and CO in an edge-on protoplanetary disk, Astrophysical Journal Letters 965(1): 18 (L13).
- Dartois E., Noble J.A., Caselli P., Fraser H.J., Jiménez-Serra I., Maté B., McClure M.K., Melnick G.J., Pendleton Y.J., Shimonishi T., Smith Z.L., Sturm J.A., Taillard A., Wakelam V., Boogert A.C.A., Drozdovskaya M.N., Erkal J., Harsono D., Herrero V.J., Ioppolo S., Linnartz H.V.J., McGuire B.A., Perotti G., Qasim D. & Rocha W.R.M. (2024), Spectroscopic sizing of interstellar icy grains with JWST, Nature Astronomy 8: 359-367.
- Monteiro Rocha W.R., Gomes Rachid M., Olsthoorn B., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2023), LIDA - the Leiden ice database for astrochemistry, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. 242nd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society 4 June 2023 - 8 June 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55: AAS Publishing. 332.02.
- Qasim D., Raut U., Gimar C., Kammer J., Teolis B., Materese C., McLain H., Aponte J., Glavin D., Dworkin J. & McClure M.K. (2023), Interstellar inheritance of Solar system bodies: laboratory, modeling and JWST observations, AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting abstracts. 55th Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences 1 October 2023 - 6 October 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. San Antonio: AAS Publishing. 220.14.
- McClure M.K., Rocha W.R.M., Pontoppidan K.M., Crouzet N., Chu L.E.U., Dartois E., Lamberts T., Noble J.A., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Qasim D., Rachid M.G., Smith Z.L., Sun F., Beck T.L., Boogert A.C.A., Brown W.A., Caselli P., Charnley S.B., Cuppen H.M., Dickinson H., Drozdovskaya M.N., Egami E., Erkal J., Fraser H., Garrod R.T., Harsono D., Ioppolo S., Jiménez-Serra I., Jin M., Jørgensen J.K., Kristensen L.E., Lis D.C., McCoustra M.R.S., McGuire B.A., Melnick G.J., Ã-berg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Shimonishi T., Sturm J.A., Dishoeck E.F. van & Linnartz H. (2023), An ice age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices, Nature Astronomy 7: 431-443.
- Boogert A., Ioppolo S., McClure M.K. & Linnartz H.V.J. (2023), Laboratory ice experiments: interpreting and building on JWST early release science observations, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. American Astronomical Society Meeting #241 8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. Seattle: AAS Publishing. 224.06.
- Chu L. & McClure M.K. (2023), JWST ice age first results: observations of ice inventory in a dense molecular cloud, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. American Astronomical Society Meeting #241 8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. Seattle: AAS Publishing. 224.05.
- Leisawitz D., Aalto S., Bergner J., Bonato M., bracken C., Eales S., Farrah D., Kennedy G., Kogut A., Lovell J., Matra L., Matsuo T., Matthews B., McClure M.K., Mundy L., Najita J., Pawellek N., Pokorny P., Sanders D., Scoville N., Shivaei I., Spencer L., Su K., Sutter J., Trapman L., Tucker C., Urry C.M., Viti S., Wilner D., Wilson G., Wyatt M., DiPietro D., DiPirro M., Hyde T., Seas A. & Tompkins S. (2023), The space interferometer for cosmic evolution (SPICE) far-IR probe, American Astronomical Society meeting abstracts. American Astronomical Society Meeting #241 8 January 2023 - 12 January 2023. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society no. 55. Seattle: AAS Publishing. 160.04.
- Espaillat C.C., Thanathibodee T., Pittman C.V., Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Calvet N., Walter F.M., Franco-Hernández R. & Muzerolle Page J. (2023), JWST detects neon line variability in a protoplanetary disk, Astrophysical Journal Letters 958(1): L4.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Beck T.L., Harsono D., Bergner J.B., Dartois E., Boogert A.C.A., Chiar J.E., Cordiner M.A., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Law C.J., Linnartz H., Lis D.C., Melnick G.J., McGuire B.A., Noble J.A., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Perotti G., Pontoppidan K.M., Qasim D., Rocha W.R.M., Terada H., Urso R.G. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2023), A JWST inventory of protoplanetary disk ices: the edge-on protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE, seen with the Ice Age ERS program, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 679: A138.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Bergner J.B., Harsono D., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Öberg K.I., Law C.J., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Terada H. & Urso R.G. (2023), The edge-on protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE: II. Modeling ices and silicates, Astronomy and Astrophysics 677: A18.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Law C.J., Harsono D., Bergner J.B., Dartois E., Drozdovskaya M.N., Ioppolo S., Öberg K.I., Palumbo M.E., Pendleton Y.J., Monteiro Rocha W.R., Terada H. & Urso R.G. (2023), The edge-on protoplanetary disk HH 48 NE: I. Modeling the geometry and stellar parameters, Astronomy and Astrophysics 677: A17.
- Sturm J.A., Booth A.S., McClure M.K., Leemker M. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2023), Disentangling the protoplanetary disk gas mass and carbon depletion through combined atomic and molecular tracers, Astronomy and Astrophysics 670: A12.
- Rocha W.R.M., Rachid M.G., Olsthoorn B., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K. & Linnartz H. (2022), LIDA: the Leiden ice database for astrochemistry, Astronomy and Astrophysics 668: A63.
- Cridland A.J., Rosotti G.P., Tabone B.X.J.A., Tychoniec Ł., McClure M.K., Nazari P. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2022), Early planet formation in embedded protostellar disks : setting the stage for the first generation of planetesimals, Astronomy and Astrophysics 662: A90.
- Rich E.A., Monnier J.D., Aarnio A., Laws A.S.E., Setterholm B.R., Wilner D.J., Calvet N., Harries T., Miller C., Davies C.L., Adams F.C., Andrews S.M., Bae J., Espaillat C., Greenbaum A.Z., Hinkley S., Kraus S., Hartmann L., Isella A., McClure M., Oppenheimer R., Pérez L.M. & Zhu Z. (2022), Gemini-LIGHTS: herbig Ae/Be and massive T Tauri protoplanetary disks imaged with gemini planet imager, Astronomical Journal 164(3): 109.
- Jin M., Lam K.H., McClure M.K., Terwisscha van Scheltinga J., Li Z.-Y., Boogert A., Herbst E., Davis S.W. & Garrod R.T. (2022), Ice Age: chemodynamical modeling of Cha-MMS1 to predict new solid-phase species for detection with JWST, The Astrophysical Journal 935(2): 133.
- Wagner K., Apai D., Kasper M., McClure M. & Robberto M. (2022), The scorpion planet survey: wide-orbit giant planets around young A-type stars, Astronomical Journal 163(2): 80.
- Bosman A.D., Trapman L., Sturm J.A., Bergin E.A., Booth A.S., Calahan J.K., Dishoeck E.F. van, McClure M.K., Miotello A. & Zhang K. (2022), Hydrostatic equilibrium does not solve the C18O flux problem in protoplanetary disks, Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 6(9): 176.
- Sturm J.A., McClure M.K., Harsono D., Facchini S., Long F., Kama M., Bergin E.A. & Dishoeck E.F. van (2022), Tracing pebble drift and trapping using radial carbon depletion profiles in protoplanetary disks, Astronomy and Astrophysics 660: A126.
- Terwisscha van Scheltinga J., Marcandalli G., McClure M.K., Hogerheijde M.R. & Linnartz H. (2021), Infrared spectra of complex organic molecules in astronomically relevant ice matrices: III. Methyl formate and its tentative solid-state detection, Astronomy and Astrophysics 651: A95.
- Schwarz K.R., Calahan J.K., Zhang K., Alarcón F., Aikawa Y., Andrews S.M., Bae J., Bergin E.A., Booth A.S., Bosman A.D., Cataldi G., Cleeves L.I., Czekala I., Huang J., Ilee J.D., Law C.J., Le Gal R., Liu Y., Long F., Loomis R.A., Macías E., McClure M., Ménard F., Öberg K.I., Teague R., Dishoeck E.F. van, Walsh C. & Wilner D.J. (2021), Molecules with ALMA at Planet-forming Scales: XX. The Massive Disk around GM Aurigae, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 257(1): 20.
- Ginski C., Facchini S., Huang J., Benisty M., Vaendel D., Stapper L., Dominik C., Bae J., Ménard F., Muro-Arena G., Hogerheijde M.R., McClure M., Holstein R.G. van, Birnstiel T., Boehler Y., Bohn A., Flock M., Mamajek E.E., Manara C.F., Pinilla P., Pinte C. & Ribas Á. (2021), Disk Evolution Study Through Imaging of Nearby Young Stars (DESTINYS): late infall causing disk misalignment and dynamic structures in SU Aur, Astrophysical Journal Letters 908(2): L25.
- Kamp I., Honda M., Nomura H., Audard M., Fedele D., Waters L.B.F.M., Aikawa Y., Banzatti A., Bowey J.E., Bradford M., Dominik C., Furuya K., Habart E., Ishihara D., Johnstone D., Kennedy G., Kim M., Kral Q., Lai S.P., Larsson B., McClure M.K., Miotello A., Momose M., Nakagawa T., Naylor D., Nisini B., Notsu S., Onaka T., Pantin E., Podio L., Riviere Marichalar P., Rocha W.R.M., Roelfsema P., Shimonishi T., Tang Y.W., Takami M., Tazaki R., Wolf S., Wyatt M. & Ysard N. (2021), The formation of planetary systems with SPICA, Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia 38: e055.
- McClure M.K., Dominik C. & Kama M. (2021), Probing solid compositions in planetary core formation zones, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. AAS Topical Conference Series meeting, Habitable Worlds 2021 22 February 2021 - 26 February 2021 no. 53. Washington D.C.: AAS Publishing. 1137.
- McClure M.K., Dominik C. & Kama M. (2020), Measuring the atomic composition of planetary building blocks, Astronomy and Astrophysics 642: L15.
- Huang J., Andrews S.M., Dullemond C.P., Öberg K.I., Qi C., Zhu Z., Birnstiel T., Carpenter J.M., Isella A., Macías E., McClure M.K., Pérez L.M., Teague R., Wilner D.J. & Zhang S. (2020), A multifrequency ALMA characterization of substructures in the GM Aur protoplanetary disk, The Astrophysical Journal 891(1): 48.
- Gabellini M.G.U., Miotello A., Facchini S., Ragusa E., Lodato G., Testi L., Benisty M., Bruderer S., Kurtovic N.T., Andrews S., Carpenter J., Corder S.A., Dipierro G., Ercolano B., Fedele D., Guidi G., Henning T., Isella A., Kwon W., Linz H., McClure M.K., Perez L., Ricci L., Rosotti G., Tazzari M. & Wilner D. (2019), A dust and gas cavity in the disc around CQ Tau revealed by ALMA, Monthly Notices of the RAS (0035-8711) 486(4): 4638-4654.