Niels Bohr Institutet

Professor in Planetary Sciences at the Space Research Institute in Graz, Austria. His long research career concentrates around planetary physics, including studies of atmospheric escape processes, evolution of planetary and exoplanetary environment, and habitability of exoplanets. Helmut Lammer's professional web-site Abstract: The talk will address the most important astrophysical and geophy...

Professor in astrophysics at Uppsala University, Sweden. Bengt GustafssonCreated some of the first high-accuracy model atmospheres of solar-type and cooler stars, that have been continuously updated and now have been cited more than 3,000 times in the scientific literature. Apart from his involvement in astronomy, he has also a great knowledge and interest in humanistic sciences, and holds a honor...

Michiel Lambrechts is an associate professor working in the StarPlan section of the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen (Denmark). My aim is to improve our understanding of the various processes that lead to the formation of planets around our Sun and other stars. An important part of my research has been focused on pebble accretion: the mechanism by which protoplanets grow in mass by...

Director of the Center for Astrochemical Studies at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Munich, Germany, where laboratory astrochemistry, multi-wavelength observations, and theoretical models are carried out. Paola Caselli Her research stretches from the physical and chemical structure of the interstellar medium to star formation and protoplanetary disks. She uses molecules to...

Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at George Washington University and the President of the Committee on Space research (COSPAR). Pascale EhrenfreundWith a degree in molecular biology, in astrochemistry, as well as in management & leadership, her interest spans a wide multidisciplinary area, with important contributions to the scientific literature in - among many fields - astrobi...

Professor of genetics at the University of Minnesota. Katarzyna AdamalaHer pioneering work as founder of the international Build-a-Cell Initiative has brought building of non-living life into a deeper theoretical and experimental reality, with the perspective of “teleportation” of synthetic “biological” material for example between Earth and potential future colonies on Mars. Her lab experiments o...

Professor of astrobiology at University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, USA. David Catling With a background in Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary physics, he has made substantial contributions to our understanding of the co-evolution of the Earth’s atmosphere and life. His scientific work spans a wide range of subjects including conditions for life on Mars and icy moons, environments fo...

Professor in Astrobiology at the Department of Biology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Kai FinsterTheoretical and experimental work in microbial ecology and astrobiology, including studies of the role of biological aerosols and biological ice-nucleation particles in cloud formation and cloud processes, effect of wind-driven abrasion of minerals on Martian regolith, habitability and atmospheric proc...

Professor in biology at University of Southern Denmark and director of the Nordic Centre for Earth Evolution. Donald CanfieldHis research include studies of geological-biological interactions, including development of the oxygen abundance in Earth’s atmosphere through geological times and during Earth’s great oxidation event, the relation between oceanic sulfur concentration, carbon cycles and ani...