Editorial Board for section 'Astrobiology'

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Please note that the order in which the Editors appear on this page is alphabetical, and follows the structure of the editorial board presented on the MDPI website under information for editors: editorial board responsibilities.

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Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali and Museo Geologico Giovanni Capellini, University of Bologna, Via Zamboni 63-67, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: extreme environments; microbial communities; foraminifera; geomicrobiology; astrobiology

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DLR, Institute of Planetary Research, Rutherfordstrasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany
Interests: interior structure and mantle dynamics of terrestrial planets and exoplanets; thermo-chemical evolution of small bodies and rocky planets; interior-atmosphere coupling

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Faculty of Science, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1010, New Zealand
Interests: paleoecology; extreme environments; hot springs; hydrocarbon seeps; trace fossils

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Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Interests: organic chemistry; meteorite analysis; astrobiology; space missions; life detection instrumentation
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Department of Ecological and BiologicalSciences (DEB), University of Tuscia, Largo dell'Università snc, 01100 Viterbo, Italy
Interests: fungi from extreme environments
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via della Ricerca Scientifica, 00133 Roma, Italy
Interests: astrobiology; cosmology; habitability; exoplanets; biosignatures; technosignatures; extraterrestrial intelligence

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Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, 00133 Roma, Italy
Interests: astrobiology; extreme environments; cyanobacteria; molecular biology
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Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire (CBM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Rue Charles Sadron, 45071 Orléans, France
Interests: astrobiology; prebiotic chemistry; origins of life; homochirality; extraterrestrial life; Mars; Europa; exoplanets
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Planetary Environments Lab, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
Interests: mass spectrometry; molecular biosignatures; laser desorption/ionization; hypervelocity impact chemistry; Mars; Europa; habitability; analytical techniques

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Department of Radiation Oncology, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23507, USA
Interests: space radiation; radiobiology; cognitive testing; executive functions; neurocircuit
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INAF-Astrophysical Observatory of Arcetri, L.go E. Fermi 5, IT-50125 Firenze, Italy
Interests: astrobiology; Mars; asteroids; comets; astrochemistry; laboratory studies on dust; ices; biomolecule; spectroscopy; photo processing

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Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali (BiGeA), Università di Bologna, Via Zamboni 67, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Interests: geobiology; palaeontology; astrobiology; extreme environments
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Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Geosciences & Curator of Paleontology, Museum of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79415, USA
Interests: astrobiology; origin; evolution; functional anatomy


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Laboratoire de Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moléculaires (PIIM), UMR CNRS 7345, 13397 Marseille, France
Interests: astrochemistry; meteoritics; ultrahigh-resolving analytical chemistry; data analysis; origin of life

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1. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
2. BIOTA Institute, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA
Interests: origins of life; nonenzymatic polymerization; lipid biophysics; astrobiology; biosignature detection; Archean geology; space mission design; computational simulation
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Director of the Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre, Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Frescativägen, 114 19 Stockholm, Sweden
Interests: molecular astrophysics; atmospheric chemistry; interstellar chemistry; complex molecules in space; modelling of large chemical reaction networks; spectroscopy of interstellar and atmospheric molecules; radioastronomy observations; asroobiology; interaction between microbial populations and their geological substrates

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Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Interests: RNA; prebiotic molecular; astrobiology; origin of life

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Department of Bioscience, Aarhus Universitet, Ny Munkegade 116, Building 1540, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
Interests: astrobiology; aeromicrobiology; microbial physiology; microbial ecology; extreme environments

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 266 Woods Hole Road, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA
Interests: astrobiology; ocean worlds; hydrothermal systems; chemosynthesis


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Department of Molecular Evolution, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Carretera de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, 28850 Madrid, Spain
Interests: extremophiles; molecular mechanisms of resistance to extreme conditions; acidophiles; halophiles; UV resistance; metagenomics; metatranscriptomics; bacterial social behavior; extracellular DNA; horizontal gene transfer

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Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i-Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Interests: formation and dynamics of planets and planetary systems; formation, detection, characterization and dynamical evolution of solar system and extrasolar planets; origin of Earth's water; habitability and habitable planets; habitable zone


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NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
Interests: microbial ecology and biogeochemistry; anaerobic processes; hydrogen cycling; bioenergetics; subsurface and low energy ecosystems; planetary habitability

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Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, 503 Deike Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Interests: microbial geobiology; biogeochemistry; molecular evolution and genomics; astrobiology; geomicrobiology; origin of life

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School of Chemistry, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Interests: phosphorus chemistry; abiogenesis; astrobiology
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Department of Chemistry, Yokohama National University, 79-5 Hodogaya-ku, TokiwadaI, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
Interests: origins of life; astrobiology; chemical evolution; organic trace analysis

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Faculty of Physics, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA
Interests: biophysics; microbiology; astrobiology; extremophiles; evolutionary biology; systems biology; statistical physics; condensed matter theory

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Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL 32901, USA
Interests: astrobiology; habitability; exoplanets; origin of life; space science; ecology; biophysics; extraterrestrial intelligence
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: biogeochemical cycles; astrobiology; geobiology; Earth history; isotope geochemistry; oceanic anoxia; evolution of the ocean and atmosphere and the co-evolution of life

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Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Carretera de Ajalvir km 4, Torrejón de Ardoz, 28850 Madrid, Spain
Interests: biomolecules; surfaces; minerals; prebiotic chemistry; planetary simulation chambers; XPS spectroscopy; IR spectroscopy

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Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM), C/ Del Doctor Severo Ochoa 7, Edificio Entrepabellones 7 y 8, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: planetary geosciences; meteorites; geoeducation; geoethics; mineralogy; geochemistry; sustainability; conceptual changes; astrobiology; future earth
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