Members Iris Smokers 3 Jul 2022 Phd student Radboud University Nijmegen Keywords: Coacervate protocells, phosphorylation Email: iris dot smokers at ru dot nl
Members Annaliese Mayer 23 Jun 2022 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members Juliette Langlais 11 May 2022 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
Members Benji Thoma 10 May 2022 PhD Student University College London Keywords: Organic Chemistry, Peptide bond formation, Organocatalysis, Amino acids, Amino nitriles Email: uccabth at ucl.ac dot uk
Members David Boulesteix 19 Apr 2022 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
Members 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
Members Tanai Cardona 7 Feb 2022 Professor (non-tenured) Imperial College London, UK Keywords: Photosynthesis, Photosystems, Evolution, Oxygenic, Biocatalysis Email: t dot cardona at imperial dot ac dot uk
Members Bernardo Ballotta 7 Feb 2022 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
Members 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
Members 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…
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members Mahendran Sithamparam 20 May 202130 Dec 2021 Masters student National University of Malaysia Keywords: Polymer, Gel formation Email: iammahen96 at gmail dot com
Members 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
Members Kate Adamala 29 Apr 202130 Dec 2021 Professor (non-tenured) University of Minnesota, USA Keywords: Synthetic cells, protocells Email: kadamala at umn dot edu
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members Fatma Pir Cakmak 1 Mar 202130 Dec 2021 Postdoc MIT, USA Keywords: Protocells, membranes, condensates, biomolecules, evolution Email: fatmapir at mit dot edu
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members 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
Members Sean F. Jordan 11 Nov 202030 Dec 2021 Postdoc University College London, UK Keywords: Protocells, prebiotic chemistry, biogeochemistry sean dot jordan at ucl dot ac dot uk
Members Sreejith J. Varma 22 Oct 202030 Dec 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 202030 Dec 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 202021 Jan 2022 Postdoc Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research & Utrecht University, Netherlands Keywords: Early metabolism, carbon fixation, heterogeneous catalysis, mineral surface chemistry, serpentinization martina dot preiner at nioz dot nl
Members Saroj Poudel 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Postdoc Rutgers University, USA Keywords: Computational biology saroj dot poudel at marine dot rutgers dot edu
Members Silvana Pinna 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 PhD student UCL, UK Keywords: ATP, acetyl phosphate, early metabolism, catalysis silvana dot pinna at hotmail dot com
Members Zhen Peng 22 Oct 202030 Dec 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 Kamila B. Muchowska 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Tenure Track Position University of Strasbourg & CNRS, France Keywords: Prebiotic chemistry, protometabolism, complex systems, biochemistry, catalysis muchowska at unistra dot fr
Members John Malloy 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 PhD student Arizona State University, USA Keywords: Biochemical networks, metabolism, evolution jmalloy3@asu.edu
Members Tony Z. Jia 22 Oct 202030 Dec 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…
Members Becca Guth-Metzler 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 PhD student Georgia Tech, USA Keywords: RNA biochemistry, bioinorganic chemistry rguth3@gatech.edu
Members Natalie Grefenstette 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Postdoc Santa Fe Institute, USA Keywords: Life Detection, Prebiotic Chemistry, Theoretical Astrobiology, Agnostic biosignatures natalie.grefenstette@santafe.edu
Members Valentina Erastova 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Tenure Track Position University of Edinburgh, UK Keywords: Molecular modelling, clays, minerals, adsorption valentina.erastova@ed.ac.uk
Members Geoffrey Cooper 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Postdoc University of Glasgow, UK Keywords: Automation, Cycles, Soups, Complexity, Messy Chemistry geoff.cooper@glasgow.ac.uk
Members Stephanie M. Colón-Santos 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Postdoc University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA Keywords: Prebiotic Chemistry, Analysis and Automation colonsantos@wisc.edu
Members Eloi Camprubi 22 Oct 202024 May 2022 Professor (non-tenured) University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas, USA Keywords: Hydrothermalism, proto-metabolism, microfluidics, chemistry, catalysis camprubi dot eloi at gmail dot com
Members Rudrarup Bose 22 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 PhD student Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany Keywords: Liquid-liquid phase separation, prebiotic chemistry bose at mpi-cbg dot de
Members Cole Mathis 14 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 Postdoc Arizona State University/ Santa Fe Institute, USA Keywords: Chemical Kinetics, Networks, life detection cole dot mathis dot ool at gmail dot com
Members Silke Asche 13 Oct 202030 Dec 2021 PhD student University of Glasgow, UK Keywords: Automation; Recursive systems; Long term experiments; Minerals; Analytics Email: info at silke-asche dot de
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