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Georgia Soares

PhD graduate of the ACA

^{georgia.soares1@gmail.com}

Georgia is a recent PhD graduate of the ACA, whose thesis was on the identification of novel macroscopic fossils from the beginning of the great oxidation Event in 2.4 Ga rocks from Western Australia. She is currently searching for a post-doctoral position in Astrobiology.

Kathleen Campbell

Professor

^{ka.campbell@auckland.ac.nz}

Prof. Kathy Campbell is a geologist, paleoecologist and astrobiologist at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.��

Eizo Nakamura

Professor

Eizo Nakamura has been leading the Pheasant Memorial Laboratory (PML) at the Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University at Misasa. Eizo does research in petrology, geochemistry, cosmochemistry, astrobiology and bio-medical chemistry. He is a representative of the Phase-2 Curation Facility at Misasa designated for the initial comprehensive analyses of samples to be returned from an asteroid Ryugu by Hayabusa 2 spacecraft on 6 December 2020.

Abigail Allwood

Doctor - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

^{abigail.c.allwood@jpl.nasa.gov}

My main research focus is detection and characterization of ancient microbial biosignatures in the rock record, including investigation of past habitability and taphonomic potential of rock sequences. My research emphasizes field geology and the multidisciplinary analysis of returned samples. I have worked on Early Archean age stromatolites of the Pilbara Craton, and associated sedimentary, hydrothermal and aqueously altered igneous rocks.��

Ariel Anbar

Professor

anbar@asu.edu

Ariel Anbar studies the geological, chemical and biological processes that shape the environment of Earth and other planets, and how they have changed through time. The study of these processes teaches us about the habitability of the Earth, the history of the environment and life, the effects of human activities on the environment, and the prospects for life beyond Earth. An author or co-author of over 100 refereed research publications, Anbar is also an education innovator who has developed a game-like online science course for non-scientists,��Habitable Worlds��().

Erica Barlow

Doctor

evbarlow@gmail.com

I’m interested in studying microfossils and stromatolites. I’m currently working on the adaptation of life to the Great Oxidation Event, within rocks from the 2.4 Ga Turee Creek Group, Western Australia.

Brett Biddington

Doctor

^{biddingtonresearch@iinet.net.au}

Brett��Biddington��owns his own Canberra-based consulting firm, which focuses on space and cyberspace policy, security and industry development subjects. He is a member of the Government’s Australian Space Industry Innovation Council, Chair of the Space Industry Association of Australia and is also involved with the governance of Australian astronomy.

Elizabeth Blaber

Assistant Professor

blabee@rpi.edu

Elizabeth A. Blaber, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.��She earned her Bachelor of Medical Sciences (Honours) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and her PhD in Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry from the same university.��

Kim Bott

���������¼� ACA graduate

kbott@ucr.edu

Jochen J. Brocks

^{jochen.brocks@anu.edu.au}

Adrian Brown

Associate Member

adrian.j.brown@nasa.gov

Dr Adrian Brown is currently working as the Mars2020 Deputy Program Scientist at����in Washington D.C. in the United States of America. Adrian has a background in computer science and electrical engineering - his first degree was in Electrical Engineering from the��Australian Defence Force Academy��in Canberra, Australia.

Graziella Caprarelli

Doctor

^{graziella.caprarelli@usq.edu.au}

Dr Graziella Caprarelli's area of professional expertise is in the study of volcanic activity of Earth and Mars. Because the most common volcanic rocks on both planets are basalts, she specialised in the investigation of the chemical and physical characteristics of basalts, from when they are produced in the interior of planets, during ascent through several hundred km of solid rocks, up to their eruption and flow to the surface of the planets.

Stefano Caruso

Doctor

s.caruso@unsw.edu.au

Jonathan Clarke

Doctor

r.bishop@unsw.edu.au

My career has been extremely varied and when asked what my expertise is, I generally reply I am a geological general practitioner. I graduated as a palaeontologist, moved into petroleum and coal geology; my PhD was in carbonate sedimentology and palaeoecology. I've also worked on marine surveys in the Southern and Indian Oceans, explored for base metals, nickel and gold in Archaean and Proterozoic terranes in South and Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland, as well as for gold and copper in the Philippines and Chile.

Thomas Cudahy

Doctor

r.bishop@unsw.edu.au

A CSIRO project leader of numerous collaborative industry-funded projects. These projects aim to develop and demonstrate operational remote hyperspectral VNIR-SWIR-TIR technologies for enhanced mineral exploration, mining and mine environment of different commodity types. Technologies include airborne ARGUS, SEBASS, HyMap and AMSCAN and satellite-borne Hyperion, ASTER and CHRIS systems. Supporting agencies include national and international government bodies and multinational mining companies. Supervise project staff.

Alan W. Decho

Professor

^{awdecho@mailbox.sc.edu}

The Decho Microbial Interactions laboratory investigates microbial biofilms and mats, focusing specifically on processes occurring within the extracellular polymer (EPS) matrix. We're interested in looking for carbonate precipitation, quorum sensing (communication), the use of nanoparticles as probes, and searching for signatures of EPS processes in mat fossil systems.

Tara Djokic

Doctor/ Research Officer (Palaeontology)

^{tara.djokic@australian.museum}

Dr Tara Djokic completed her PhD with the Australian Centre for Astrobiology in 2019. Her research involved the discovery of Earth’s oldest fossilised land-based hot springs preserved in the Pilbara of Western Australia and this work has been used to provide context for origin of life studies and the search for life on Mars.

David Flannery

NASA JPL

flannery@jpl.nasa.gov

Simon George

Professor

^{simon.george@mq.edu.au}

Simon George was awarded a BSc (Hons) degree in geology from St Andrews University in Scotland in 1985 and then worked as a mudlogger. He obtained his PhD (1990) in organic geochemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, for his work on the influence of igneous activity on petroleum generation and accumulation. He moved to Macquarie University in 2006, where he is now a Professor with a research group in organic geochemistry, working especially on research areas to do with the geochemical record of the early evolution of life and bioremediation in cold climates.

Kliti Grice

Professor

k.grice@curtin.edu.au

Professor Kliti Grice Grice is an internationally renowned organic geochemist who creatively combines geological information with data on molecular fossils and their stable carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions to reconstruct details of microbial, fungal and floral inhabitants of ancient aquatic environments. She’s especially well known for identifying a geological and environmental basis for the largest mass extinction in Earth’s history, which happened at the end of the Permian Period, about 252 million years ago.

Jonti Horner

Lecturer, USQ

^{jonathan.horner@usq.edu.au}

At ���������¼�, Jonti is working with Prof.��Chris Tinney��and hopes to be able to gain observational experience, looking for planets around other stars, as well as continuing his theoretical studies, exploring the stability of newly discovered planetary systems, and the impact regimes that might be experienced by potentially habitable planets in those systems. In addition, he is heavily involved in collaborations with colleagues in Japan, Europe, and the United States, addressing various questions of both Solar system and exoplanetary science, and is a committee member of the��.

Yosuke Hoshino

Associate Member

yhoshino@gfz-potsdam.de

My primary research interest is the evolution of membrane dynamics in three domains of life and biophysical roles of polycyclic triterpenoids in the membrane system.��

Amber Jarrett

amber.jarrett@anu.edu.au

My research interests lie in the field of ancient biogeochemistry. I'm particularly interested in using biomarkers as proxies for early life and using palaeo-redox proxies for oxygen using iron speciation and other trace metals. Using a multidisciplinary approach, I'm interested in researching the relationships between an evolving ocean and the evolution of organisms in Neoproterozoic oceans.

Penelope King

penny.king@anu.edu.au

My current research focuses on the origin and evolution of planetary interiors and surfaces; and the roles of volatiles, pH, and oxygen fugacity on minerals and melts/glasses at high and low temperatures. My group uses techniques in micro-analysis (especially infrared spectroscopy), performs high and low-temperature experiments, and examines geology in the field. I'm especially interested in the planet Mars and I am a Science Co-Investigator on the Curiosity rover, Mars Science Laboratory mission.

Anthony Larkum

Emeritus Professor

a.larkum@sydney.edu.au

Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Adjunct Professor, University of Technology.

Ian S. Morrison

Doctor

^{ian.morrison@curtin.edu.au}

Ian Morrison has been awarded a second doctorate, the latest one being in broadband SETI. His PhD research for the second doctorate was explicitly focused on the development of��new tools for extending the search to wideband signal formats as may be used for interstellar communications in the pursuit of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence using radio telescopes. He is also interested in Galactic habitability and how this varies��spatially and temporally, and the implications for��SETI. In 2018 he commenced a research fellowship with the Curtin Institute for Radio Astronomy, specialising in telescope back-end signal processing.

Brett Neilan

Professor

r.bishop@unsw.edu.au

He’s considered to be one of the world’s leaders in the genetics of toxic cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). The results of his basic research and his other work on the evolution of cyanobacteria have revolutionised an entire field of environmental science. He’s��also engaged in “molecular bioprospecting”, which has led him to study the secondary metabolism of microorganisms from unique environments, such as Antarctica and the hypersaline coasts of Shark Bay in Western Australia.