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Leverhulme Centre for Life in the Universe

 
Name Department Project 
Clark Baker Cavendish Astrophysics HARVY – designing a new facility to survey for Earth-like planets on neighbour Sun-like stars 
Megan Brown  Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Understanding the building blocks of life: Studying the sources and fate of HCN in the martian atmosphere using a 3D global climate model

Gregory Cooke  Institute of Astronomy Habitability and Ecological Potential of Hycean Worlds
Tuhin Ghosh  Institute of Astronomy Cosmic dust as a feedstock for prebiotic chemistry on Mars and exoplanets
Callum Fairburn 

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics

Habitable planets around white dwarf stars
Ross Findlay  Department of Earth Sciences Unravelling the conditions of aqueous alteration on C-type asteroids: implications for the delivery of water and volatiles to the terrestrial planets
Euan Furness  Department of Zoology Alternate stable biospheres - modelling the microbial to metazoan transition
Clancy Jiang  Department of Earth Sciences Geochemically plausible activation chemistry for the origin and early evolution of life: Environmental pathways for activating agents

Ziwei Liu 

Department of Earth Sciences

Geochemically plausible activation chemistry for the origin and early evolution of life: Environmental pathways for activating agents
Catriona McDonald   

Institute of Astronomy

Assessing the feasibility of comet delivery of prebiotic feedstocks to Earth and rocky exoplanets
William McMahon  Department of Earth Sciences Weathering planets without vegetation
Sai Shruthi Murali  Department of Physics Chemistry on the Edge: Exploring the Boundaries of the Cyanosulfidic Reaction Network
David Russell  Department of Biochemistry Lipid Diversity at the onset of life (LipDive)
Frederick V. Simmons   Faculty of Divinity Philosophical Research on Central Concepts in Origins of Life Research