RED’19 Lecturers

Lecturers for Astrobiology Introductury Course 2019

Muriel Gargaud.
Muriel Gargaud
CNRS Senior Scientist

Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Université de Bordeaux – Bât. B18N
Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
CS 50023
33615 PESSAC CEDEX

email: muriel.gargaud@u-bordeaux.fr
Tel. +33 (0)5 40 00 24 32
Website

Astrophysics and astrobiology: origin of life

 

Hervé Cottin.
Hervé Cottin
Professor

LISA – Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques
Universités Paris-Est Créteil – Paris Diderot
CNRS UMR 7583
Institut Simon Laplace
61 av. du Général de Gaulle 94010 Créteil Cedex

email: herve.cottin@lisa.u-pec.fr
Tel. +33 (0) 1 45 17 15 63
Website 

Astrochemistry : organic chemistry in the small bodies of the solar system, prebiotic chemistry.

 

Daniela BilliDaniela Billi
Professor

University of Rome Tor Vergata,
Dept. Biology,
Lab. Astrobiology and Molecular Biology of Cyanobacteria
Rome, Italy

Email: billi@uniroma2.it
Website
Tel. : +46 46 222 83 78

Biology: Life in extreme environments, desert cyanobacteria under
space and simulated planetary conditions, cyanobacterium-based life
support

 

François Forget.
François Forget

CNRS Senior Scientist

LMD/IPSL
(Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique)
Sorbonne Université BP99
4 place Jussieu
75005 Paris

email: forget@lmd.jussieu.fr
Website

Planetology: Planetary climates, Exoplanets, Mars, Pluton, Venus

 

Emmanuelle JavauxEmmanuelle Javaux
Full Professor

Early Life Traces & Evolution-Astrobiology Laboratory
Département de Géologie
Université de Liège
Quartier Agora, Bâtiment B18, Allée du six Août, 14
B- 4000 LIEGE (Sart Tilman), Belgium

Email : ej.javaux@uliege.be
Website
Tel. : +32 4 366 5422

Paleobiology: traces, evolution of prokaryotes and eukaryotes in the Precambrian, biosignatures, habitability

 

Purification Lopez Garcia.
Purification Lopez Garcia

CNRS Senior Scientist

Unité d’Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution (UMR 8079)
Université Paris-Sud,
Bâtiment 360
91 405 Orsay Cedex

Email: puri.lopez@u-psud.fr
Tel. +33 (0) 1 69 15 76 08

Biology: microbiology, origin and evolution of life.

 

Alban Laflaquière.
Georges Meynet

Professor

Département d’Astronomie de l’Université de Genève
Observatoire de Genève
Chemin des Maillettes, 51
1290 Versoix

email: georges.meynet@unige.ch
Tel. +41 22 379 23 98
Website

Stellar physics, star-planet interactions, nucleosynthesis, short-lived radionuclides

 

Matthew Powner.
Lena Noack

Junior Professor

Free University Berlin, Institute of Geological Sciences,
Malteserstr. 74-100,
12249 Berlin, Germany

email: lena.noack@fu-berlin.de
Tel. 00 49 30 838 636 94
website

Geosciences: mantle convection, outgassing, habitability

 

Matthew Powner.
Matthew Powner

Associate Professor

University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
UK

email: matthew.powner@ucl.ac.uk
Tel. +44 (0) 207 679 45 42
website

Prebiotic Chemistry: organic Chemistry, RNA and nucleotides, Peptides, Photochemistry, Lipids, Green and Sustainable Chemistry

 

Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goni.
Maria Fernanda Sanchez Goñi
Full Professor at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE, PSL University)

UMR EPOC, University of Bordeaux,
Allée Geoffroy St Hilaire,
33615 Pessac, France

Email: maria-fernanda.sanchez-goni@ephe.psl.eu
Tel: ++33 5 40 00 83 84
Website

Paleoclimatology: Palynology, Pollen analysis, Ice Ages, Glacial-Interglacial cycles, Abrupt climate changes

 

Amaury Triaud.
Amaury Triaud

Birmingham Fellow / Lecturer

School of Physics & Astronomy
University of Birmingham,Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
United Kingdom

email: a.triaud@bham.ac.uk
Tel. +44 121 414 4588
Website

Astrophysics: exoplanets detection, exoplanet characterisation, binary stars, statistical methods

 

Josep Trigo.
Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez

CSIC Tenured scientist

Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC/IEEC)
Campus UAB Bellaterra, c/Can Magrans s/n
08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès (Barcelona)

email: trigo@ice.csic.es
Tel. +34 93 7379788, Ext: 933069
Website

Cosmochemistry: Meteorites, asteroids, comets, meteors, fireballs

 

Franck SelsisCyprien Verseux
Dr – Humboldt postdoctoral fellow

Institute address :
Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM)
University of Bremen.
Am Fallturm 2, 28359
Bremen, Germany

email : cyprien.verseux@gmail.com
Tél. 00 33 6 23 58 49 05
website: www.marslablanche.com

Astrobiology: life support systems, cyanobacteria, Mars.

 

Michel Viso.
Michel Viso
Science Manager

Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales
DSP/EU, 2 place Maurice Quentin
75039 Paris Cedex

Email : michel.viso@cnes.fr
Tél : +33 1 44 76 79 51

Exobiology, head of exobiology thematics at CNES

 

Valentine WakelamValentine Wakelam
CNRS Senior Scientist

Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Université de Bordeaux – Bât. B18N
Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
CS 50023
33615 PESSAC CEDEX

Email : valentine.wakelam@u-bordeaux.fr
Tel. : +33 5 40 00 21 87
website

Astrochemistry, star and planet formation