Indonesian Students Club

Planets are born in dusty, gas-rich disks around young stars, and the architectures, atmospheres, and potential habitability of exoplanetary systems reflect the conditions within these birth environments. In this talk, I will show how recent advances with facilities such as ALMA and JWST are transforming our ability to probe the structure, composition, and chemistry of protoplanetary disks in unprecedented detail. These observations reveal disks that are far from simple but instead are rich in gas and dust substructures that play a key role in shaping how and where planets form. I will also highlight our efforts to use molecular line emission to trace the earliest stages of this process, providing a new pathway to directly identify young protoplanets still embedded in their natal disks. Finally, I will look ahead to how the upcoming wideband era of radio astronomy is poised to open new frontiers in disk chemistry, planet formation, and molecular astrophysics.