• "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny…"

    Isaac Asimov

Talks and Seminars

  • Contributed Talk, ”Dust modeling in PDRs”, Société Française d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique (SF2A), Marseille, France (06-2024)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Nano-grains depletion at the edge of the Orion Bar as seen by JWST”, EDIBLES workshop, Leiden, Netherlands (11-2023)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Dust evolution in PDRs: new insights from JWST”, Cosmic 2023 Dust, Gothenburg, Sweden (09-2023)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Dust evolution across the Orion Bar”, Soci ´et ´e Fran c¸ aise d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique (SF2A), Strasbourg, France (06-2023)

  • Invited talk, ”Studying the Interstellar Medium in the JWST era”, General Assembly 2022; International Astronomical Union (IAU), Busan, South Korea (08-2022)

  • Invited talk, ”Physics and Chemistry of PDRs with the James Webb Space Telescope”, Société Française d’Astronomie et d’Astrophysique (SF2A), Besançon, France (06-2022)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Astronomical Outreach activities from Morocco”, The inaugural AfAS Annual Conference; African Astronomical Society (AfAS) (02-2021)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Line Profile Analysis of selected DIBs”, EDIBLES meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands (11-2019)

  • e-Poster short presentation, ”Cosmic dust (r)evolution” session, European Week of Astronomy & Space Science (EWASS 2019), Lyon, France (06-2019)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Near Infrared High Resolution Spectroscopy: Where are we?” session, European Week of Astronomy & Space Science (EWASS 2017), Prague, Czech Republic (06-2017)

  • Contributed Talk, ”Molecules in Space: Linking the Interstellar Medium to (exo)planets” Symposium, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, USA (08-2017)

Press releases

  • “Tour de force: International PDRs4All team chart Orion Nebula like never before” A&A Press Release (05/2024)

  • “Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail” ESA, NASA (04/2024)

  • “Radiation from massive stars shapes planetary systems” CNRS Press Release (02/2024)

  • “Webb makes first detection of crucial carbon molecule” ESA, NASA (06/2023)

  • “First images!” Western University News (09/2022)

  • “Webb to Study How Massive Stars’ Blasts of Radiation Influence Their Environments” Webb News Release (03/2022)

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6086-2337

Refereed and Accepted publications: [My refereed and accepted publications]

  1. 2025 — JWST observations of photodissociation regions: II. Warm molecular Hydrogen spectroscopy in the Horsehead nebula
    Zannese, M., Guillard, P., Abergel, A., et al. — arXiv e-prints
    10.48550/arXiv.2510.06812 arXiv:2510.06812
  2. 2025 — Roadmap on carbon molecular nanostructures in space
    Hansen, K., García-Hernández, D. A., Campbell, E. E. B., et al. — European Physical Journal D
    10.1140/epjd/s10053-025-00984-1
  3. 2025 — The EDIBLES Survey IX: Simulations of the λ6614 DIB Profile Variations: A Surprising Connection with CH+
    Bhatt, C., Cami, J., Sarre, P. J., et al. — ACS Earth and Space Chemistry
    10.1021/acsearthspacechem.4c00238
  4. 2024 — Dust Evolution in PDRs using JWST data
    Elyajouri, M. — EAS2024, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting
  5. 2024 — PDRs4All. VIII. Mid-infrared emission line inventory of the Orion Bar
    Van De Putte, D., Meshaka, R., Trahin, B., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202449295 arXiv:2404.03111
  6. 2024 — JWST observations of the Horsehead photon-dominated region. I. First results from multi-band near- and mid-infrared imaging
    Abergel, A., Misselt, K., Gordon, K. D., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202449198 arXiv:2404.15816
  7. 2024 — OH as a probe of the warm-water cycle in planet-forming disks
    Zannese, M., Tabone, B., Habart, E., et al. — Nature Astronomy
    10.1038/s41550-024-02203-0 arXiv:2312.14056
  8. 2024 — PDRs4All. V. Modelling the dust evolution across the illuminated edge of the Orion Bar
    Elyajouri, M., Ysard, N., Abergel, A., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202348728 arXiv:2401.01221
  9. 2024 — PDRs4All: III. JWST's NIR spectroscopic view of the Orion Bar
    Peeters, E., Habart, E., Berné, O., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202348244 arXiv:2310.08720
  10. 2024 — PDRs4All. II. JWST's NIR and MIR imaging view of the Orion Nebula
    Habart, E., Peeters, E., Berné, O., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202346747 arXiv:2308.16732
  11. 2024 — VizieR Online Data Catalog: PDRs4All III. JWST/NIR view of the Orion Bar (Peeters+, 2024)
    Peeters, E., Habart, E., Berne, O., et al. — VizieR Online Data Catalog
  12. 2024 — A far-ultraviolet–driven photoevaporation flow observed in a protoplanetary disk
    Berné, O., Habart, E., Peeters, E., et al. — Science
    10.1126/science.adh2861 arXiv:2403.00160
  13. 2023 — Formation of the methyl cation by photochemistry in a protoplanetary disk
    Berné, O., Martin-Drumel, M.-A., Schroetter, I., et al. — \nat
    10.1038/s41586-023-06307-x arXiv:2401.03296
  14. 2023 — Dust Evolution in the Orion Bar: New insights from the JWST
    Elyajouri, M., Abergel, A., Ysard, N., et al. — EAS2023, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting
  15. 2023 — A high-resolution study of near-IR diffuse interstellar bands, search for small-scale structure, time variability, and stellar features
    Smoker, J. V., Müller, A., Monreal Ibero, A., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202142267 arXiv:2212.03563
  16. 2023 — VizieR Online Data Catalog: Early-type stars DIB in optical and infrared (Smoker+, 2023)
    Smoker, J. V., Mueller, A., Monreal Ibero, A., et al. — VizieR Online Data Catalog
    10.26093/cds/vizier.36720181
  17. 2022 — The ESO Diffuse Interstellar Bands Large Exploration Survey (EDIBLES)
    Cox, N., Cami, J., Smoker, J., et al. — EAS2022, European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting
  18. 2022 — The EDIBLES survey. V. Line profile variations in the λλ5797, 6379, and 6614 diffuse interstellar bands as a tool to constrain carrier sizes
    MacIsaac, H., Cami, J., Cox, N. L. J., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/202142225 arXiv:2203.01803
  19. 2021 — The diffuse interstellar bands at 862 nm
    Zhao, H. — Ph.D. Thesis
  20. 2019 — Updated extraction of the APOGEE 1.5273 μm diffuse interstellar band: a Planck view on the carrier depletion in dense cores
    Elyajouri, M., & Lallement, R. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201834452 arXiv:1903.11707
  21. 2019 — VizieR Online Data Catalog: 15273Å near-infrared DIB (Elyajouri+, 2019)
    Elyajouri, M., & Lallement, R. — VizieR Online Data Catalog
    10.26093/cds/vizier.36280067
  22. 2018 — The EDIBLES survey. III. C<SUB>2</SUB>-DIBs and their profiles
    Elyajouri, M., Lallement, R., Cox, N. L. J., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201833105 arXiv:1805.11566
  23. 2018 — Three-dimensional maps of interstellar dust in the Local Arm: using Gaia, 2MASS, and APOGEE-DR14
    Lallement, R., Capitanio, L., Ruiz-Dern, L., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201832832 arXiv:1804.06060
  24. 2018 — The EDIBLES survey II. The detectability of C<SUB>60</SUB><SUP>+</SUP> bands
    Lallement, R., Cox, N. L. J., Cami, J., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201832647 arXiv:1802.00369
  25. 2018 — The ESO Diffuse Interstellar Band Large Exploration Survey (EDIBLES)
    Cami, J., Cox, N. L., Farhang, A., et al. — The Messenger
  26. 2018 — VizieR Online Data Catalog: The ESO DIBs Large Exploration Survey (Cox+, 2017)
    Cox, N. L. J., Cami, J., Farhang, A., et al. — VizieR Online Data Catalog
    10.26093/cds/vizier.36060076
  27. 2017 — 3D maps of the local interstellar medium: the impact of Gaia
    Capitanio, L., Lallement, R., Vergely, J. L., et al. — SF2A-2017: Proceedings of the Annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics
  28. 2017 — The Africa Initiative for Planetary and Space Sciences
    Baratoux, D., Chennaoui-Aoudjehane, H., Gibson, R., et al. — AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
  29. 2017 — The ESO Diffuse Interstellar Bands Large Exploration Survey (EDIBLES) . I. Project description, survey sample, and quality assessment
    Cox, N. L. J., Cami, J., Farhang, A., et al. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201730912 arXiv:1708.01429
  30. 2017 — Three-dimensional mapping of the local interstellar medium with composite data
    Capitanio, L., Lallement, R., Vergely, J. L., Elyajouri, M., & Monreal-Ibero, A. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201730831 arXiv:1706.07711
  31. 2017 — The 15 273 Å diffuse interstellar band in the dark cloud Barnard 68
    Elyajouri, M., Cox, N. L. J., & Lallement, R. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201731437 arXiv:1709.00963
  32. 2017 — Africa Initiative for Planetary and Space Sciences
    Chennaoui Aoudjehane, H., Baratoux, D., Gibson, R., et al. — 80th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society
  33. 2017 — VizieR Online Data Catalog: DIBs in APOGEE telluric standard star spectra (Elyajouri+, 2017)
    Elyajouri, M., Lallement, R., Monreal-Ibero, A., Capitanio, L., & Cox, N. L. J. — VizieR Online Data Catalog
    10.26093/cds/vizier.36000129
  34. 2017 — Near-infrared diffuse interstellar bands in APOGEE telluric standard star spectra . Weak bands and comparisons with optical counterparts
    Elyajouri, M., Lallement, R., Monreal-Ibero, A., Capitanio, L., & Cox, N. L. J. — \aap
    10.1051/0004-6361/201630088 arXiv:1702.00223
  35. 2016 — VizieR Online Data Catalog: DIBs measurements from SDSS-III APOGEE spectra (Elyajouri+, 2016)
    Elyajouri, M., Monreal-Ibero, A., Remy, Q., & Lallement, R. — VizieR Online Data Catalog
    10.26093/cds/vizier.22250019
  36. 2016 — A Catalog of 1.5273 um Diffuse Interstellar Bands Based on APOGEE Hot Telluric Calibrators
    Elyajouri, M., Monreal-Ibero, A., Remy, Q., & Lallement, R. — \apjs
    10.3847/0067-0049/225/2/19 arXiv:1606.01762