EANA Conference 2025
The EANA 2025 will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, from the 21st (Tuesday) to the 24th (Friday) of October 2025. The EANA Council Meeting and AbGradE'25 will be held on Monday, 20th October 2025.
The LOC is composed of Zita Martins (Chair), Nuno Santos, Jorge Gameiro, Pedro Machado, Ana Zélia Miller, and Marta Cortesão and invites the European Astrobiology community for the 25th EANA conference.
The meeting will consist of invited keynote as well as contributed talks, the well-known Space Factor contest, and poster sessions. EANA 2025 will set a special focus on "Astrobiology: From the Field to the Labs and into Space", but welcomes abstracts from all fields of Asrobiology.
Arbeitskreis "Präbiotische Chemie"
Anfang Oktober trifft sich der Arbeitskreis „Präbiotische Chemie“ der DAbG am Campus Essen der Universität Duisburg-Essen.
Zeit und Ort:
Dienstag, den 7. Oktober 2025 um 11:00 – 16:00 Uhr
Campus Essen (Universitätsstr. 2, 45 141 Essen) in Raum S05 R00 L81
(Tel. 0201 183 2570)
Vorläufig ist folgendes Programm geplant:
Ulrich Schreiber: Frühe Informationsspeicherung durch Hydrophobizitätsgradienten (und/oder Chromatografische Trennung in der Erdkruste)
Jan Bredehöft: Neues von BioSigN (DLR-Projekt zu Biosignaturen)
Christian Mayer: Vesikelbildung auf Titan (gemeinsames Projekt mit Conor Nixon, NASA)
Philipp Henn: Zeitabläufe der Lebensentstehung vor dem Hintergrund kosmologischer Modelle
Kuhan Chandru: Selektion von Dimeren in Vesikelmembranen im Evolutionsversuch
Die Programmpunkte können nach Bedarf erweitert werden.
Alle Mitglieder und interessierte Gäste sind herzlich willkommen!
Anmeldungen bitte bis zum 30.09.2025 unter christian.mayer_at_uni-due.de
Christian Mayer
The German Astrobiological Society e.V. invites you to the
9th DAbG Workshop:
When: December 8th to December 9th 2025
Where: Ruhr-University Bochum, Veranstaltungszentrum
Abstract Deadline: October 15th 2025
Registration Deadline: November 30th 2025
Conference Fee: 60 Euro
Conference Fee Payment Deadline: November 30th 2025
ESA Post-Doc Research Fellowships
We are pleased to announce the 2025 Call for Applications for the European Space Agency's Research Fellowships in Space Science. We expect to hire 5 to 6 postdoctoral fellows who will start their fellowship in fall 2026.
The deadline for applications is 22 September 2025.
ESA's postdoctoral Research Fellowship programme offers early-career researchers the possibility to carry out independent research in a variety of disciplines. Research Fellowships in Space Science offer the opportunity to contribute to ESA's endeavour to explore our Solar System and the Universe in the fields of heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, and fundamental physics.
ESA Research Fellow contracts have a maximum duration of three years. Projects initially last two years and are frequently extended to a third year upon submission of a dedicated proposal.
Research Fellowships in Space Science can be located at any of the following institutes:
- European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC) in Villafranca del Castillo near Madrid, Spain
- European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands
- ESA Office at Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Detailed information and a link to the application portal can be found on the fellowship webpage: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/fellowship
We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02381-x
https://bigthink.com/hard-science/follow-the-salt-a-new-strategy-for-finding-life-on-mars
Payload Proposals for SpinSat Platform
Dear colleagues of Commission F,
I am part of a NASA Ames-led team that is developing the SpinSat platform, a multi-payload spinning satellite that will provide centrifugal gravity in beyond-LEO radiation environments.
We recently released a request for information (RFI) via SAM.gov, aimed to solicit interest and responses from those who might propose science payloads for this platform, as well as those who could develop payload hardware to enable such experiments to fly on SpinSat.
Please see the SpinSat RFI for descriptive details and to be added to the e-mailing list for updates, and please contact julie.k.fletcher_at_nasa.gov (or me) if you have questions. We would welcome a response from you to this RFI!
Sincerely,
Dr. Petra Rettberg
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