Most of Dr. Menten’s research involves radio and (sub)millimeter wavelength emission from dust and molecules in the Universe and their chemistry. Areas of concentration have included the formation of (in particular high-mass) stars in Giant Molecular Clouds, astrophysical masers and lasers, imaging radio emission from protostars, young stellar objects, and evolved stars, circumstellar envelopes, the central regions of our and other galaxies, atomic and molecular gas, dust and star formation at cosmological distances and gravitational lenses.