Past research proposals

2025

The origin and evolution of archaeal lipid membranes (Project 1)
Supervisor: Claudia Bonfio, Department of Biochemistry

Unlocking primitive cell division (Project 2)
Supervisor: Claudia Bonfio, Department of Biochemistry 

Searching for the signs of geological and biological evolution in exoplanetary systems using white dwarfs
Supervisor: Amy Bonsor, Institute of Astronomy

Spectral response function mapping to detect Earth twins
Supervisor: David Buscher, Department of Physics

Precambrian mudrock from source-to-sink: an Earth analogue to identify pre-multicellular life habitable environments that have high biosignature preservation potential
Supervisor: Neil S. Davies, Department of Earth Sciences

Magnetising the early Earth
Supervisor: Richard Harrison, Department of Earth Sciences

How has Earth maintained climate stability for over 4 billion years?
Supervisor: Oliver Shorttle, Department of Earth Sciences and Institute of Astronomy

Simulating reaction networks for prebiotic environments
Supervisor: Alex Thom, Department of Chemistry

Constraining a cometary source of life's building blocks
Supervisor: Paul B Rimmer, Department of Physics

'Catastrophic collisions and planetary habitability': the Kaidun meteorite as a unique record of early solar system dynamics and delivery of volatiles to the terrestrial planets 
Supervisor: Helen Williams, Department of Earth Sciences

The implications of large asteroid break-ups for (exo-)Earth climate and habitability
Supervisor: Mark Wyatt, Institute of Astronomy