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Research overview Chemical pathways to the origins of life The cradle of prebiotic chemistry and life Habitable planets beyond the Solar System What is life? Supported Projects

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About

About overview
    History Networks

People

People overview
    Directorate Steering Committee Spoke Leaders Principle Investigators Research Staff Research Students

Research

Research overview
    Chemical pathways to the origins of life The cradle of prebiotic chemistry and life Habitable planets beyond the Solar System What is life? Supported Projects

Opportunities

    Vacancies Funding Calls Senior Fellowship Visitor programme Studentship Opportunities MPhil Planetary Sciences Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship Kavli Institute Senior Fellowship in Exoplanets

Events

    Annual Science Day Annual Talks Coffee Meetings LCLU Seminars Exoplanet Seminars Exoplanet Journal Club Origins Federation Conference
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Opportunities

  • Vacancies
  • Funding Calls
  • Senior Fellowship
  • Visitor programme
  • Studentship Opportunities
    • LCLU PhD Studentships
    • LCLU Summer Placements
  • MPhil Planetary Sciences
  • Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship
  • Kavli Institute Senior Fellowship in Exoplanets

Past research proposals

Research Proposals

2024

Unravelling the nature of an ice-rich body from the outer Solar System
Supervisor: Helen Williams, Department of Earth Sciences

Bayesian inference applied to interferometric calibration of extreme-precision radial-velocity spectrographs
Supervisor: David Buscher, Department of Physics

Do prebiotic molecules survive cometary impact?
Supervisor: Paul Rimmer, Department of Physics

Microbially drive iron mineralogy changes in sediment
Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Department of Earth Sciences

Growth of bacteria on iron minerals - impact of carbon source on changing mineralogy
Supervisor: Sasha Turchyn, Department of Earth Sciences

Constraining the cometary delivery of prebiotic molecules to the terrestrial planets
Supervisor: Catriona McDonald, Institute of Astronomy

Simulating species: investigating the impact of biodiversity on the biosphere through deep time
Supervisor: Emily Mitchell, Department of Zoology

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