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”

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Communication

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

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Community

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

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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…

Yu Ernest Liu

22 Oct 20205 Nov 2020

Postdoc University of Glasgow, UK Keywords: Mathematical modelling, autocatalytic set, metabolic network, complexity, phylogenetics yu.ernest.liu@hotmail.com

Nozair Khawaja

22 Oct 202019 Nov 2020

Postdoc Freie University Berlin, Germany Keywords: Space missions, mass spectrometry, icy moons, comets and asteroids, cosmic dust nozair.khawaja@fu-berlin.de

Tony Z. Jia

22 Oct 202028 Jan 2021

Specially Appointed Assistant Professor (non-tenure track) Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan & Blue Marble Space Institute of Science Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, chemical evolution, self-Assembly, protocells/artificial cells, polymer…

Becca Guth-Metzler

22 Oct 20207 May 2021

PhD student Georgia Tech, USA Keywords: RNA biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry rguth3@gatech.edu

Natalie Grefenstette

22 Oct 202011 Nov 2020

Postdoc Santa Fe Institute, USA Keywords: Life Detection, Prebiotic Chemistry, Theoretical Astrobiology, Agnostic biosignatures natalie.grefenstette@santafe.edu

Evrim Fer

22 Oct 20205 Nov 2020

PhD student Department of Genetics, University of Arizona, USA Keywords: Evolution of translation evrimf@email.arizona.edu

Valentina Erastova

22 Oct 20202 Mar 2021

Tenure Track Position University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Molecular modelling, clays, minerals, adsorption valentina.erastova@ed.ac.uk

Andrey do Nascimento Vieira

22 Oct 20205 Nov 2020

PhD student Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany Keywords: Geobiology, microbiology, biochemistry nascima@uni-duesseldorf.de

Fernando D. K. Tria

22 Oct 202014 Dec 2020

Postdoc Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany Keywords: Molecular evolution, genomics, phylogenetics tria@hhu.de

Geoffrey Cooper

22 Oct 202014 Dec 2020

Postdoc University of Glasgow, UK Keywords: Automation, Cycles, Soups, Complexity, Messy Chemistry geoff.cooper@glasgow.ac.uk

Stephanie M. Colón-Santos

22 Oct 20206 Apr 2021

Postdoc University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA Keywords: Prebiotic Chemistry, Analysis and Automation colonsantos@wisc.edu

Enrico Sandro Colizzi

22 Oct 20205 Nov 2020

Postdoc Origins Center, Leiden University, Netherlands Keywords: Multilevel Evolution, Prebiotic Evolution, Origin of Life, Theoretical Biology istidina@gmail.com

Devon B. Cole

22 Oct 202017 Dec 2020

Postdoc Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Sedimentology, oxygenation, biogeochemical cycles devon.cole@gatech.edu

Eloi Camprubi

22 Oct 20205 Nov 2020

Postdoc Origins Center, Utrecht University, Netherlands Keywords: Hydrothermalism, proto-metabolism, microfluidics, chemistry, catalysis e.camprubicasas@uu.nl

Rudrarup Bose

22 Oct 20201 Jun 2021

PhD student Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany Keywords: Liquid-liquid phase separation, prebiotic chemistry bose@mpi-cbg.de

Stuart Bartlett

22 Oct 202014 Nov 2020

Postdoc California Institute of Technology, USA Keywords: Astrobiology, Origins of Life, Thermodynamics sjbart@caltech.edu

Cole Mathis

14 Oct 202011 Nov 2020

Postdoc researcher University of Glasgow, UK Keywords: Chemical Kinetics, Networks, life detection cole.mathis.ool@gmail.com

Silke Asche

13 Oct 20204 Nov 2020

PhD student University of Glasgow, UK Keywords: Automation; Recursive systems; Long term experiments; Minerals; Analytics info@silke-asche.de

Joana C. Xavier

10 Jul 20203 Mar 2021

Postdoc Institute for Molecular Evolution, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany Keywords: Prokaryotes, autocatalysis, metabolism, networks, middle-out, bioengineering xavier@hhu.de