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

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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”

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Post-Disciplinarity

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

Maximilian Weingart

13 Sep 202213 Sep 2022

PhD student Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich Keywords: precipitation patterns, hydrothermal vents, nucleoside synthesis, molecule accumulation Email: m.weingart at physik.uni-muenchen dot de

Daniel Gonzales Santamaria

31 Aug 202213 Sep 2022

Postdoc University of Glasgow Keywords: Assembly theory, Clay minerals, ribonucleotide, amino acids Email: daniel.santamaria at glasgow.ac dot uk

Katherine Villavicencio Valero

24 Aug 202225 Aug 2022

Phd student University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 Keywords: Oceans, Biosignatures, Hyperspectral Analysis, Atmospheric Evolution, Icy Moons Email: katherine.villavicencio at univ-lyon1 dot fr

Julian Penzinger

Masters student Leiden University Keywords: Theoretical/Observational Astrochemistry, Laboratory Astrophysics, Surface Science, Spectroscopy, Molecular Origins of Life, Biosignatures, Prebiotic Chemistry Email: penzinger dot julian at gmail dot com

Christian Euler

Postdoc Phycus Biotechnologies Keywords: Metabolism, Biochemistry, Thermodynamics, Synthetic Biology, Networks Email: euler.christian at gmail dot com

Christopher Mayer-Bacon

Phd student University of Maryland-Baltimore County Keywords: Amino acids, optimality, synthetic biology Email: chris.mayer.bacon at gmail dot com

Gustavo Pinho Maia

Masters student Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) - University of Lisbon Keywords: Ribonucleosides, RNA World, Meteorites, Asteroids, Mechanochemistry Email: gustavo.pinho.maia at tecnico.ulisboa dot pt

Alyssa Adams

Postdoc Morgridge Institute for Research & University of Wisconsin-Madison Keywords: Emergence, Open-Endedness, Complex Systems, Computer Sciences, Evolution, Mathematical Modeling Email: alyssa.gp.adams at gmail dot com

Muhammad Ghufran Rafique

PhD student McGill University Keywords: DNA Nanomaterials, Supramolecular Polymerization Email: muhammad.g.rafique at mail dot mcgill.ca

Liam M. Longo

Professor (non-tenured) Earth-Life Science Institute Keywords: protein folding, protein evolution, prebiotic protein design, amino acid alphabet evolution, ancestor sequence reconstruction Email: llongo at elsi dot jp

Iris Smokers

Phd student Radboud University Nijmegen Keywords: Coacervate protocells, phosphorylation Email: iris dot smokers at ru dot nl

Teresa Mccarrell

Phd student University of Minnesota Keywords: hot springs, cyanobacteria, thermophiles, oxygenic photosynthesis Email: mcca1048 at umn dot edu

Peng A

Phd student McGill university Keywords: phase separation, membraneless organelle Email: peng dot a at mail dot mcgill dot ca

Ellie Hara

Phd student University of Colorado Boulder Keywords: mineral-facilitated organic chemistry reactions, organometallic ligand chemistry, serpentinizing systems, spectroscopy (Raman, IR) Email: ellie.hara at colorado dot edu

Annaliese Mayer

Phd student Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Keywords: metal-microbe interactions, metallome, co-evolution, planetary protection, oceanography Email: acsmeyer at mit dot edu

Tymofii Sokolskyi

Phd student University of Wisconsin-Madison Keywords: Compartmentalization, Vesicle stability, Chemical ecosystems, Prebiotic soups Email: sokolskyi at wisc dot edu

Bruno Ćurjurić

Non-permanent position Geophysics Department, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb Keywords: Planet Formation, Habitability, Tidal Locking, Star-Planet interactions Email: bcurjuric at gmail dot com

Carla Bautista

Phd student Université Laval Keywords: Experimental evolution, Hybridization, UV radiation, DNA damage, Yeast Email: c dot bautistarourjc at gmail dot com

Shota Nishikawa

23 Jun 202223 Jun 2022

Phd student Earth-life science institute, Tokyo institute of technology Keywords: Directed evolution, Origins of translation, Ribosome evolution, RNA-peptide convolution, Cell-free system Email: shotanishikawa at elsi dot jp

Roger Rubio Sanchez

Postdoc Imperial College London Keywords: lipid self-assembly, protocells, membrane organisation Email: r dot rubio at imperial dot ac dot uk

Thomas Matreux

Phd student LMU Munich, Germany Keywords: thermal gradients, biophysics, selection processes, microfluidics Email: th dot matreux at physik dot lmu dot de

Elia Salibi

Phd student TU Dortmund Keywords: Protocells, Catalytic Nucleic Acids, Phospholipid Membranes Email: elia.salibi at tu-dortmund dot de

Loraine Schwander

11 May 202212 May 2022

Phd student Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf Keywords: Hydrothermal vents, Metabolism, Serpentinization, Mineral surface chemistry, Network analysis Email: loraine.schwander at hhu dot de

Paul B Rimmer

11 May 202211 May 2022

Professor (non-tenured) University of Cambridge Keywords: Planetary astrochemistry, Chemical kinetics, Prebiotic chemistry, Origins of life, Heterogenous photochemistry, Atmospheric chemistry Email: pbr27 at cam.ac dot uk

Claudia Alvarez

Postdoc Georgia Institute of Technology Keywords: Evolution of Protein Folds, Evolution of the Translation Machinery Email: ccarreno6 at gatech dot edu

Juliette Langlais

PhD Student Ludwig Maximilans University Keywords: RNA world, Polymerisation, Phosphorylation, 2'3'cyclic phosphate nucleotides, Polyphosphate Email: juliette.langlais at physik.uni-muenchen dot de

Kavita Matange

11 May 202211 May 2022

PhD Student Georgia Institute of Technology Keywords: Chemical Evolution, Proto-Ribosome Email: kmatange3 at gatech dot edu

Alix Dujardin

PhD Student McMaster University Keywords: Warm little pond, RNA world, Nucleotides, Pre-polymers Email: dujardia at mcmaster dot ca

Kaitlin Cerillo

11 May 202211 May 2022

PhD Student McMaster University Keywords: Exoplanets, Early Earth, Habitability, Habitable Zone, Radiative Transfer Email: cerrillk at mcmaster dot ca

Angad Yuvraj

11 May 202211 May 2022

PhD Student University of Delhi Keywords: Protocells, Autocatalytic Sets, Multi-stability, Chemical Reaction Networks Email: aysingh at physics.du.ac dot in

Shotaro Tagawa

PhD Student Earth-life science institute, Tokyo institute of technology Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, Nucleic acids synthesis, Deep-sea, Supercritical carbon dioxide, Hydrothermal reactor Email: shotaro.tagawa at elsi dot jp

Benji Thoma

PhD Student University College London Keywords: Organic Chemistry, Peptide bond formation, Organocatalysis, Amino acids, Amino nitriles Email: uccabth at ucl.ac dot uk

Hannah Dromiack

PhD Student Arizona State University Keywords: Physics of Living Systems, Biological Algorithms, Complex Object Formation Email: hdromiac at asu dot edu

Catherine Maggiori

PhD Student McGill University Keywords: Astrobiology, life detection, DNA, biosignatures, nanopore sequencing Email: catherine.maggiori at gmail dot

Veronica Mierzejewski

PhD Student Arizona State University Keywords: universal biochemistry, scaling, metabolism Email: vmierzej at asu dot edu

David Boulesteix

PhD Student CentraleSupelec, Paris-Saclay University Keywords: Derivatization reagents, microbiology/ecology of extreme environments, eDNA/RNA analyses, irradiation, mass spectrometry Email: david dot boulesteix at hotmail dot com

Tomasz Zajkowski

Postdoc NASA Ames Research Center Keywords: protein aggreagation, prions, amyloids Email: tomaszzajkowski at gmail dot com

Laura Rodriguez

11 Apr 202211 Apr 2022

Postdoc NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, USA Keywords: pre-RNAs, N-heterocycles, Phosphorus Cycling, Hydrothermal Vents, Chemometrics Email: laura dot rodriguez at jpl dot nasa dot gov

Saurja DasGupta

7 Mar 20227 Mar 2022

Postdoc Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, USA Keywords: RNA Evolution, RNA catalysis, Synthetic Biology Email: dasgupta at molbio dot mgh dot harvard dot edu

Sawsan Wehbi

Phd student University of Arizona, USA Keywords: protein evolution, disordered regions, amino acid preferences, early life Email: sawsanwehbi at email dot arizona dot edu

Melese Getenet Dessie

Phd student Spanish National Research Council Madrid, Spain Keywords: mineral self-assembly, chemical gardens, biomimetic materials, prebiotic chemistry Email: melese dot getenetd at gmail dot com

Kshitij Deshpande

7 Mar 20227 Mar 2022

Masters student Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, India Keywords: Protocells, Prebiotic chemistry, Lipid-nucleotide interactions, Self-Assembly, Geothermal Pools Email: kshitijdeshpande2498 at gmail dot com

Tanai Cardona

Professor (non-tenured) Imperial College London, UK Keywords: Photosynthesis, Photosystems, Evolution, Oxygenic, Biocatalysis Email: t dot cardona at imperial dot ac dot uk

Manesh Joshi

Phd student Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Pune, India Keywords: N-acyl amino acids, protoamphiphiles, hot springs, prebiotic membranes, protocells Email: manesh dot joshi at students dot iiserpune dot…

Bernardo Ballotta

Phd student Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy Keywords: Computational chemistry, Chemical kinetics, Gas-Phase reactions, Complex Organic Molecules Email: bernardo dot ballotta at sns dot it

Raquel Nunes Palmeira

Phd student University College London, UK Keywords: heredity, genetic code, theoretical models Email: raquel dot palmeira dot 13 at ucl dot ac dot uk

Avinash Vicholous Dass

28 Dec 202128 Feb 2022

Postdoc Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Keywords: Organic chemistry, biophysics, chemical evolution, artificial cells, Self-assembly Email: avinash dot dass at physik dot uni-muenchen dot de

Moran Frenkel-Pinter

28 Dec 202130 Dec 2021

Professor non-tenured Hebrew University of Jerusalem Keywords: chemical evolution, origins of life, prebiotic chemistry, peptide evolution Email: moran dot fp at mail dot huji dot ac dot il (photo credit…

Yoshiya Matsubara

9 Dec 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc National Centre for Biological Sciences, India Keywords: self-replication; nonequilibrium; polymerization; dynamical systems; emergence Email: yoshiyam at ncbs dot res dot in

Rishir Kalepu

28 Oct 202130 Dec 2021

Masters student Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Keywords: Primordial Proteins, Self-replication, Peptide self-assembly Email: rishir dot kalepu at gmail dot com

Dominique Beaini

21 Oct 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student Polytechnique Montreal, Montreal Canada Keywords: fractal, information theory Email: Dominique dot beaini at outlook dot com

Alex Plum

13 Oct 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student UC San Diego, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, USA Keywords: Autocatalytic Cycles, Chemical Kinetics, Chemical Ecosystem ecology, Origin of Life, Spatial Structure, Multi-level Selection Email: aplum at ucsd dot…

Tugce Beyazay

13 Oct 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student Max Planck Institute für Kohlenforschung, Germany Keywords: heterogeneous catalysis, carbon dioxide fixation, materials science Email: beyazay at kofo dot mpg dot de

Oliver Maguire

3 Sep 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc Radbound University, Netherlands Keywords: Systems Chemistry, Phosphorylation, Chemical Reaction Networks, Out-of-Equilibrium Email: o dot r dot maguire at gmail dot com

Joaquin Perez-Grande

3 Sep 202130 Dec 2021

Undergraduate Student The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Keywords: Assembly Theory, Biosignatures, RNA-World, Complexity Email: joaquin dot perezgrande at student dot manchester dot ac dot uk

Orr Rose Bezaly

10 Aug 202130 Dec 2021

PhD Student LUniversity of Amsterdam and Utrecht University, Netherlands Keywords: prebiotic chemistry, polymerisation, amino acids, selectivity, wet-dry cycles Email: o dot r dot bezaly at uva dot nl

Valentin Moulay

5 Aug 202130 Dec 2021

PhD Student LATMOS, Paris, France Keywords: In situ analysis, Prebiotic chemistry, ocean worlds, GCMS, Analog samples Email: valentin dot moulay at latmos dot ipsl dot fr

Iskinder Arasno

15 Jul 202130 Dec 2021

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

Elle Chimiak

23 Jun 202130 Dec 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

Annemiek Waajen

23 Jun 202130 Dec 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

Jonathan Stimmer

23 Jun 202130 Dec 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

Eran Agmon

15 Jun 202130 Dec 2021

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

Carmen Baiano

10 Jun 202130 Dec 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

Gianluca Rinaldi

10 Jun 202130 Dec 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

Elle Bethune

7 Jun 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Fullerenes, anaerobic microbiology, extraterrestrial organics, early heterotrophy Email: s2033391 at ed dot ac dot uk

Bryce Clifton

1 Jun 202130 Dec 2021

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

Ziqin (Grace) Ni

23 May 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student University of Maryland, USA Keywords: life detection, agnostic biosignatures, coevolution of planet and life Email: zni at umd dot edu

Emily R. Paris

21 May 202130 Dec 2021

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

Mahendran Sithamparam

20 May 202130 Dec 2021

Masters student National University of Malaysia Keywords: Polymer, Gel formation Email: iammahen96 at gmail dot com

Siddhant Sharma

6 May 202130 Dec 2021

Undergraduate CASSUM Fellow, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Keywords: BIOCHEMISTRY, GEOCHEMISTRY, BIOSIGNATURES Email: sharmasi at chalmers dot se

Kamesh Narasimhan

6 May 202130 Dec 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

Klaus Paschek

6 May 202130 Dec 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

Yuanyuan He

5 May 202130 Dec 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

Kate Adamala

29 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

Professor (non-tenured) University of Minnesota, USA Keywords: Synthetic cells, protocells Email: kadamala at umn dot edu

Dmitry Semenov

26 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany Keywords: astronomy/planetary sciences, prebiotic chemistry, autocatalysis Email: semenov at mpia dot de

Pablo Zambrano

26 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

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

Paola Riente Paiva

23 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keywords: Organic chemistry, Asymmetric autocatalysis, Photocatalysis, Prebiotic chemistry Email: p dot rientepaiva at uva dot nl

Yagmur Gunes

23 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student Istanbul Technical University, Turkey Keywords: Stromatolites, Geomicrobiology, Surface Mineralogy, Extreme Environments Email: gunesya at itu dot edu dot tr

Mang Lin

23 Apr 202130 Dec 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

Edoardo Gianni

20 Apr 202130 Dec 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

Annalena Salditt

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

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

Camille Lambert

16 Apr 202130 Dec 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

Jay Forsythe

16 Apr 202130 Dec 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

Tomislav Stolar

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

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

Odín Morón Garcia

16 Apr 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc Aberystwyth University, UK Keywords: Epigenetic markers, Species barcoding, pollination networks, plant shape and morphology Email: omgmvi at gmail dot com

Jana Bocková

24 Mar 202130 Dec 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

Luke Steller

23 Mar 202130 Dec 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

Nino Lauber

18 Mar 202130 Dec 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…

Nemanja Cvjetan

18 Mar 202130 Dec 2021

PhD student ETH Zurich, Switzerland Keywords: Vesicles, Compartments, Systems Chemistry Email: nemanja dot cvjetan at mat dot ethz dot ch

David Kuster

11 Mar 202130 Dec 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

Ghjuvan Grimaud

11 Mar 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc APC microbiome/Teagasc, Cork, Ireland Keywords: Evolution of metabolism, metabolic networks Email: ghjuvan dot grimaud at teagasc dot ie

Adrian Jinich

11 Mar 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, USA Keywords: thermodynamics of biochemical redox reactions Email: adj2010 at med dot cornell dot edu

Tyler Roche

3 Mar 202130 Dec 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

Ben K. D. Pearce

1 Mar 202130 Dec 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

Tim Lichtenberg

1 Mar 202130 Dec 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

Josh Goldford

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Metabolic networks, non-equilibrium thermodynamics Email: goldford at mit dot edu

Fatma Pir Cakmak

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Protocells, membranes, condensates, biomolecules, evolution Email: fatmapir at mit dot edu

Milad Miladi

1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc University of Freiburg, Germany Keywords: RNA, ribozymes, Autocatalytic sets Email: miladim at cs dot uni-freiburg dot de

Minoru Kurisu

27 Feb 202130 Dec 2021

Phd student Tohoku University, Japan Keywords: Membrane, Vesicle, Reproduction, Amphiphile, Autocatalysis Email: kurisu at bio dot phys dot tohoku dot ac dot jp

Wataru Takahagi

27 Feb 202130 Dec 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

Eduardo Rodríguez-Román

26 Feb 202130 Dec 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

Huan Cui

25 Feb 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc IPGP, University of Paris, France Keywords: Shuram excursion, Precambrian, Neoproterozoic, SIMS, paleoenvironment Email: geohcui at gmail dot com

Artemy Kolchinsky

16 Feb 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe NM, USA Keywords: Information theory, stochastic thermodynamics, nonequilibrium statistical physics, Email: artemyk at gmail dot com

Yuliia Orlova

9 Feb 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Keywords: Reaction networks, metabolic networks, minimal properties of life. Email: yuliiaorlova at gmail dot com

Stuart Harrison

2 Feb 202130 Dec 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

Cyrille Jeancolas

19 Jan 202130 Jan 2022

Postdoc Durham University, UK Keywords: Social epistemology, Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, synthetic life, life as we don’t know it Email: cyrille dot jeancolas at durham dot ac dot uk

Marta Filipa Simões

18 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc Macau University of Science and Technology, China Keywords: Mycology, filamentous fungi, biotechnology Email: msimoes at must dot edu dot mo

Filipa Sousa

16 Jan 202130 Dec 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

Ismael Acosta Servetto

15 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

Undergraduate Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Uruguay Keywords: Microfossils, Biosignatures, Exoplanets, Prebiotic Chemistry Email: ismacosta96 at gmail dot com

Sandeep Ameta

12 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc National Center For Biological Sciences, India Keywords: Chemical networks, NGS, microfluidics, autocatalytic networks Email: ametasandeep at gmail dot com

Alexandre Champagne-Ruel

12 Jan 202130 Dec 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

Michaela Dobson

9 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

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

Abril Hernandez Monroy

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

Masters Student National Autonomous University of Mexico Keywords: Microbial molecular ecology Email: abrilh85 at gmail dot com

Han Jia

6 Jan 202130 Dec 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

Soumitra Athavale

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

Postdoc California Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Asymmetric Autocatalysis, Prebiotic synthesis, directed evolution, polymer evolution Email: athavale at caltech dot edu

Jihua Hao

6 Jan 202130 Dec 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

Mazin Nasralla

6 Jan 202130 Dec 2021

PhD Student University of Leeds, UK Keywords: Water, ammonia, neutron diffraction Email: pymna at leeds dot ac dot uk

Ryo Mizuuchi

22 Dec 202030 Dec 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…

Byunghwa Kang

22 Dec 202030 Dec 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

Stewart Gault

22 Dec 202030 Dec 2021

PhD Student University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Enzymology Email: s dot a dot gault at sms dot ed dot ac dot uk

Amit Kahana

22 Dec 202030 Dec 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

Jingbo Nan

22 Dec 202030 Dec 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

Lena Vincent

18 Dec 202030 Dec 2021

PhD student University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Keywords: Agnostic biosignatures, prebiotic chemistry, systems chemistry Email: lvincent3 at wisc dot edu

Delfina P. Henriques Pereira

14 Nov 202030 Dec 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

Claudia Bonfio

12 Nov 202030 Dec 2021

Postdoc (MSCA Fellow) MRC LMB, Cambridge, UK Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, protocells, systems chemistry Email: bonfio at unistra dot fr