Skip to content
Origin of Life Early-career Network

Origin of Life Early-career Network

Search
  • Twitter
  • Forum (Members-only)
  • Mission Statement
    • Inclusion
    • Quality
    • Exchange
    • Communication
    • Post-Disciplinarity
    • Community
    • Code of Conduct
  • Members
    • Forum (Members Only)
  • Join OoLEN
  • News & Events
  • About Us
    • Executive Board and Workgroups
    • Contact Us
    • Beyond OoLEN
      • Advisory Board
      • Friends of OoLEN

Welcome to OoLEN

We are an international post-disciplinary network of early-career researchers on the origin of life.

About Us

Understanding the origin of life (OoL) is among the greatest unsolved mysteries and represents an exciting frontier for science in the 21st century. The research on OoL is based on a variety of different, often dividing hypotheses and is only slowly transforming into a united field. The Origin of Life…Continue reading “About Us”

Featured

Communication

OoLEN defends honest and responsible communication with the media and the public. Skimming through the media coverage about the origin…

Featured

Community

At OoLEN we are actively engaged in the creation of a secure, connected and healthy community. We stand strongly against…

Featured

Post-Disciplinarity

Members of OoLEN are united by their interest in one big question: How does life start? This question existed well…

Members

Iskinder Arasno

15 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Akron, USA Keywords: montmorillonite clay, primitive nucleotides, primitive membranes Email: arsano at uakron dot edu
Members

Elle Chimiak

23 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Colorado Boulder, USA Keywords: Site-Specific Isotope Ratio Measurements, Prebiotic Chemistry, Stable Isotope Geochemistry Email: elle dot chimiak at gmail dot com
Members

Annemiek Waajen

23 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
PhD Student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: anaerobic microbiology, meteorites, early Earth, extreme microbiology, space microbiology Email: annemiek dot waajen at ed dot ac dot uk
Members

Jonathan Stimmer

23 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
PhD Student Tokyo University, Japan Keywords: amino acids, peptides, impact-induced synthesis, Hadean, Noachian Email: stimmer dot jonathan dot adam dot t1 at dc dot tohoku dot ac dot jp
Members

Sean McMahon

15 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Professor (non-tenured) University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Precambrian palaeontology, chemical gardens, biosignatures, life on Mars Email: sean dot mcmahon at ed dot ac dot uk
Members

Eran Agmon

15 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Stanford University, USA Keywords: computational systems biology, E. coli, whole-cell models Email: agmon dot eran at gmail dot com
Members

Carmen Baiano

10 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Keywords: quantum chemistry, computational chemistry, molecular modelling, computational spectroscopy Email: carmen dot baiano at sns dot it
Members

Gianluca Rinaldi

10 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Scuola Normale Superiore, Italy Keywords: adsorption, solid-state quantum simulation, oxides, clays, prebiotic species Email: gianluca dot rinaldi at sns dot it
Members

Elle Bethune

7 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Fullerenes, anaerobic microbiology, extraterrestrial organics, early heterotrophy Email: s2033391 at ed dot ac dot uk
Members

Bryce Clifton

1 Jun 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Nucleic acids, self-assembly, alternative solvents, replication Email: bclifton3 at gatech dot edu
Members

Ziqin (Grace) Ni

23 May 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student University of Maryland, USA Keywords: life detection, agnostic biosignatures, coevolution of planet and life Email: zni at umd dot edu
Members

Emily R. Paris

21 May 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Stanford University, USA Keywords: nanoSIMS, hypersaline environments, metagenomics, deep sea, microbial evolution, single-cell activity Email: erparis at stanford dot edu
Members

Mahendran Sithamparam

20 May 20211 Jul 2021
Masters student National University of Malaysia Keywords: Polymer, Gel formation Email: iammahen96 at gmail dot com
Members

Siddhant Sharma

6 May 20211 Jul 2021
Undergraduate CASSUM Fellow, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Keywords: BIOCHEMISTRY, GEOCHEMISTRY, BIOSIGNATURES Email: sharmasi at chalmers dot se
Members

Kamesh Narasimhan

6 May 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Harvard, USA Keywords: Xenobiology, Genetic Code Expansion, Synthetic Cell, Xeno-cellular Machines, Mirror-life Email: Kamesh_Narasimhan at hms dot harvard dot edu
Members

Klaus Paschek

6 May 20211 Jul 2021
PhD Student Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg Germany Keywords: Prebiotic Chemistry, Carbonaceous Chondrites, Autocatalytic networks, RNA-World Email: paschek at mpia dot de
Members

Yuanyuan He

5 May 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Sorbonne university, MNHN (Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle), and CNRS, France Keywords: TMAH, Mars, C and N isotopes, organic compounds, life bio signatures Email: yyuanhe at hotmail dot com
Members

Kate Adamala

29 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Professor (non-tenured) University of Minnesota, USA Keywords: Synthetic cells, protocells Email: kadamala at umn dot edu
Members

Dmitry Semenov

26 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany Keywords: astronomy/planetary sciences, prebiotic chemistry, autocatalysis Email: semenov at mpia dot de
Members

Pablo Zambrano

26 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany Keywords: Foams, microfluidics, air-water interface, DNA, RNA Email: zambranolobos at biochem dot mpg dot de
Members

Paola Riente Paiva

23 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keywords: Organic chemistry, Asymmetric autocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Prebiotic chemistry Email: p dot rientepaiva at uva dot nl
Members

Yagmur Gunes

23 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Keywords: Stromatolites, Geomicrobiology, Surface Mineralogy, Extreme Environments Email: gunesya at itu dot edu dot tr
Members

Mang Lin

23 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Professor (non-tenured) Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Keywords: isotope geochemistry, atmospheric chemistry, protoplanetary disk, early Earth, Mars Email: linm at gig dot ac dot cn
Members

Edoardo Gianni

20 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Keywords: RNA world; ribozymes; directed evolution Email: egianni at mrc-lmb dot cam dot ac dot uk
Members

Annalena Salditt

16 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student LMU Munich, Germany Keywords: Replication; Ligation chain reaction; Information transfer Email: a dot salditt at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de
Members

Camille Lambert

16 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student LBC, UMR CBI, ESPCI-Paris, France Keywords: in vitro evolution, ribozymes, autocatalysis, self-reproduction Email: camille dot lambert at espci dot psl dot eu
Members

Jay Forsythe

16 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Professor (non-tenured) Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, College of Charleston, USA Keywords: peptides, amino acids, hydroxy acids, cycling Email: forsythejg at cofc dot edu
Members

Tomislav Stolar

16 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
PhD Student Ruđer Bošković Institute, Croatia Keywords: Peptides, Oligomerization, Selection of Nucleobases, Watson-Crick Pairing Email: tomislav dot stolar at irb dot hr
Members

Odín Morón Garcia

16 Apr 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Aberystwyth University, UK Keywords: Epigenetic markers, Species barcoding, pollination networks, plant shape and morphology Email: omgmvi at gmail dot com
Members

Jana Bocková

24 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc CNRS, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France Keywords: chirality, asymmetric photolysis, photochemistry, astrochemistry, gas chromatography-mass spectrometry Email: jana dot bockova at univ-cotedazur dot fr
Members

Luke Steller

23 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student Australian Centre for Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia Keywords: Boron, Ribose, Vesicles, Stromatolites, Hot Springs Email: l dot steller at unsw dot edu dot au
Members

Nino Lauber

18 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student Biofisika Institute (CSIC-UPV/EHU) and Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of the Basque Country, Spain Keywords: Systems Biology, Systems Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Minimal Metabolism, Philosophy of…
Members

Nemanja Cvjetan

18 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student ETH Zurich, Switzerland Keywords: Vesicles, Compartments, Systems Chemistry Email: nemanja dot cvjetan at mat dot ethz dot ch
Members

David Kuster

11 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany Keywords: RNA modifications, Epitranscriptomics, RNA phase separation, Aptamers, Ribozymes Email: kuster at mpi-cbg dot de
Members

Ghjuvan Grimaud

11 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc APC microbiome/Teagasc, Cork, Ireland Keywords: Evolution of metabolism, metabolic networks Email: ghjuvan dot grimaud at teagasc dot ie
Members

Adrian Jinich

11 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA Keywords: thermodynamics of biochemical redox reactions Email: adj2010 at med dot cornell dot edu
Members

Tyler Roche

3 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Prebiotic Chemistry, Origins of Life, Noncanonical Nucleosides, Prebiotic Sugars Email: tyler dot roche at gmail dot com
Members

Ben K. D. Pearce

1 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
PhD Student Origins Institute, McMaster University, Canada Keywords: Origin of Biomolecules, Early Earth Environments, Quantum Chemistry, Atmospheric Modelling, Thermodynamics. Email: pearcbe at mcmaster dot ca
Members

Tim Lichtenberg

1 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Oxford, UK Keywords: planet formation, magma oceans, atmosphere origin, atmosphere composition, crust formation Email: tim dot lichtenberg at physics dot ox dot ac dot uk
Members

Josh Goldford

1 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Metabolic networks, non-equilibrium thermodynamics Email: goldford at mit dot edu
Members

Fatma Pir Cakmak

1 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Protocells, membranes, condensates, biomolecules, evolution Email: fatmapir at mit dot edu
Members

Milad Miladi

1 Mar 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Freiburg, Germany Keywords: RNA, ribozymes, Autocatalytic sets Email: miladim at cs dot uni-freiburg dot de
Members

Minoru Kurisu

27 Feb 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Tohoku University, Japan Keywords: Membrane, Vesicle, Reproduction, Amphiphile, Autocatalysis Email: kurisu at bio dot phys dot tohoku dot ac dot jp
Members

Wataru Takahagi

27 Feb 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student The University of Tokyo, Japan Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, protometabolism, metals availability, nonenzymatic reaction Email: watarut at g dot ecc dot u-tokyo dot ac dot jp
Members

Eduardo Rodríguez-Román

26 Feb 20211 Mar 2021
Postdoc Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas, Venezuela Keywords: Virus evolution, Virus ecology, Emerging and re-emerging viruses, Virus dynamics, Virus characterization erodriguezroman@gmail.com
Members

Huan Cui

25 Feb 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc IPGP, University of Paris, France Keywords: Shuram excursion, Precambrian, Neoproterozoic, SIMS, paleoenvironment Email: geohcui at gmail dot com
Members

Artemy Kolchinsky

16 Feb 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM, USA Keywords: Information theory, stochastic thermodynamics, nonequilibrium statistical physics, Email: artemyk at gmail dot com
Members

Yuliia Orlova

9 Feb 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keywords: Reaction networks, metabolic networks, minimal properties of life. Email: yuliiaorlova at gmail dot com
Members

Stuart Harrison

2 Feb 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student University College London, UK Keywords: Nucleotides, non-enzymatic, metabolism, biochemistry, genetic code. Email: stuart dot harrison dot 17 at ucl dot ac dot uk
Members

Cyrille Jeancolas

19 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student ESPCI Paris - PSL, France Keywords: Darwinian evolution, Ribozymes, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies Email: cyrille dot jeancolas at espci dot psl dot eu
Members

Marta Filipa Simões

18 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc Macau University of Science and Technology, China Keywords: Mycology, filamentous fungi, biotechnology Email: msimoes at must dot edu dot mo
Members

Filipa Sousa

16 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Professor (non-tenured) University of Vienna, Austria Keywords: Early bioenergetics evolution, cofactors, Metals, comparative genomics, electron transfer chains Email: filipa dot sousa at univie dot ac dot at
Members

Ismael Acosta Servetto

15 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Undergraduate Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Keywords: Microfossils, Biosignatures, Exoplanets, Prebiotic Chemistry Email: ismacosta96 at gmail dot com
Members

Missy Thompson

12 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Undergraduate Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, USA Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, chirality, enantiomer excesses Email: meathomp at ucsc dot edu
Members

Sandeep Ameta

12 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc National Center For Biological Sciences, India Keywords: Chemical networks, NGS, microfluidics, autocatalytic networks Email: ametasandeep at gmail dot com
Members

Alexandre Champagne-Ruel

12 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student University of Montreal, Canada Keywords: Emergence, phase transitions, evolution of cooperation, self-organized criticality, major evolutionary transitions Email: alexandre dot champagne-ruel at umontreal dot ca
Members

Michaela Dobson

9 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
PhD student The University of Auckland, New Zealand Keywords: Early Life, stromatolites, hot springs, pilbara Email: mdob102 at aucklanduni dot ac dot nz
Members

Abril Hernandez Monroy

6 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Masters Student National Autonomous University of Mexico Keywords: Microbial molecular ecology Email: abrilh85 at gmail dot com
Members

Han Jia

6 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Phd student Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Keywords: Peptide, biosensing, conductive polymers Email: jia dot h dot ab at m dot titech dot ac dot jp
Members

Soumitra Athavale

6 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Postdoc California Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Asymmetric Autocatalysis, Prebiotic synthesis, directed evolution, polymer evolution Email: athavale at caltech dot edu
Members

Jihua Hao

6 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
Professor (un-tenured) University of Science and Technology of China, China Keywords: Water-rock interactions, photogeochemistry, early Earth surface environments, habitability of other planetary waters Email: haojihua at gmail dot com
Members

Mazin Nasralla

6 Jan 20211 Jul 2021
PhD Student University of Leeds, UK Keywords: Water, ammonia, neutron diffraction Email: pymna at leeds dot ac dot uk
Members

Ryo Mizuuchi

22 Dec 20201 Jul 2021
Project Assistant Professor (un-tenured) Komaba Institute for Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan Keywords: RNA, replication, evolution, compartmentalization, networks Email: mizuuchi at bio dot c dot u-tokyo dot ac dot…
Members

Byunghwa Kang

22 Dec 20201 Jul 2021
PhD Student Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea Keywords: In vitro evolution, ribozyme, molecular catalysts Email: kangbw93 at postech dot ac dot kr
Members

Stewart Gault

22 Dec 20201 Jul 2021
PhD Student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Enzymology Email: s dot a dot gault at sms dot ed dot ac dot uk
Members

Amit Kahana

22 Dec 20201 Jul 2021
Masters Student The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Keywords: Micelles, lipid world, molecular dynamics, GARD Email: amit dot kahana at weizmann dot ac dot il
Members

Jingbo Nan

22 Dec 20201 Jul 2021
PhD student Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Keywords: Abiotic organic synthesis in the oceanic lithosphere, biomarkers on early earth, Fe-based catalysts Email: nanjb at idsse dot ac dot cn
Members

Lena Vincent

18 Dec 20201 Jul 2021
PhD student University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Keywords: Agnostic biosignatures, prebiotic chemistry, systems chemistry Email: lvincent3 at wisc dot edu
Members

Delfina P. Henriques Pereira

14 Nov 20201 Jul 2021
PhD student Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Keywords: Early metabolism, heterogeneous catalysis, abiotic reduction Email: dph dot pereira at campus dot fct dot unl dot pt
Members

Claudia Bonfio

12 Nov 20201 Jul 2021
Postdoc (MSCA Fellow) MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, protocells, systems chemistry Email: cb2036 at cam dot ac dot uk
Members

Amanda Garcia

11 Nov 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Arizona, USA Keywords: Molecular paleobiology, nitrogen fixation, metalloenzyme, biogeochemistry, planetary coevolution akgarcia at email dot arizona dot edu
Members

Sean F. Jordan

11 Nov 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc University College London, UK Keywords: Protocells, prebiotic chemistry, biogeochemistry sean dot jordan at ucl dot ac dot uk
Members

Michael L. Wong

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc University of Washington, USA Keywords: Planetary atmospheres, solar system, exoplanets miquai at uw dot edu
Members

Sreejith J. Varma

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc Charite Universitatsmedizin, Germany Keywords: Non-enzyatic metabolic reactions, mass spectrommetry, organic chemistry, biochemistry srevar at gmail dot com
Members

Hanadi Rammu

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
PhD student University College London, UK Keywords: Protocells, [4Fe-4S] cluster synthesis, lipid chemistry hanadi dot rammu dot 14 at ucl dot ac dot uk
Members

Martina Preiner

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Keywords: Early metabolism, carbon fixation, heterogeneous catalysis, mineral surface chemistry, serpentinization preiner at hhu dot de
Members

Saroj Poudel

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc Rutgers University, USA Keywords: Computational biology saroj dot poudel at marine dot rutgers dot edu
Members

Silvana Pinna

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
PhD student UCL, UK Keywords: ATP, acetyl phosphate, early metabolism, catalysis silvana dot pinna at hotmail dot com
Members

Zhen Peng

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
Postdoc Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Keywords: Autocatalysis, reaction networks, chemical kinetics, ecology, evolution peng dot zhen2002 at yahoo dot com
Members

Sinje Neukirchen

22 Oct 202011 Jul 2021
PhD student Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Austria Keywords: Biology, Computer Sciences sinje dot neukirchen at univie dot ac dot at

Posts navigation

Older Posts

Translate

Tags

Analytics Astrobiology Astronomy/Planetary Sciences autocatalysis Automation Biochemistry Biology Biosignatures Catalysis Chemistry Chirality Complex Systems Computer Sciences Ecology Evolution Genetic Code Genomics Geochemistry Geology Hydrothermal Systems Mass Spectrometry Mathematics/Statistics Membranes metabolism Microbiology Microfluidics Minerals Modelling Networks paleontology Philosophy Phylogenetics Physics Protocells RNA Sedimentology Self-Assembly Thermodynamics
  • Contact Us
  • Twitter
  • Forum (Members-only)
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy
 

Loading Comments...