LCLU Seminars


2022-04-27 16:00: Water and the Origins of Life (Matthew Powner (University College London))

2022-11-22 16:00: Building planets: what sets their composition? (Ewine F. van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands))

2023-03-15 16:00: Our Astrochemical Origins (Paola Caselli (Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany))

2023-05-10 16:00: Driving the chemistry of early Life with microscale geophysics (Dieter Braun (LMU Munich))

2023-10-16 16:00: Absence and ambiguity in life’s emergence on the Hadean earth (: Prof Stephen Mojzsis, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary.)

2023-10-26 17:30: LCLU Annual Talk: On Life's Origins: a View from Astrophysics (Prof Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University, USA)

2024-01-24 16:00: Evolving Concepts of Planetary Habitability from Earth Analogue Environments    (Barbara Sherwood Lollar, University of Toronto)

2024-03-13 16:00: Water-rock reactions and the search for life (Cara Magnabosco, ETH Zurich, Department of Earth Sciences )

2024-05-01 16:00: A New Spin on the Origin of Biological Homochirality (Furkan Ozturk, Harvard University, Department of Physics)

2024-11-27 16:00: Coupling Planetary and Ecosystem Modeling to Asses Habitability and Inhabitation in the Solar System and beyond (Stephane Mazevet, Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur, Nice (France))

2024-11-28 12:00: From Astronomy to Chemistry: towards a continuous path for the origins of life (Zoe Todd, University of Wisconsin-Madison ​ (Department of Astronomy))

2024-12-04 13:00: From astronomy to Chemistry: towards a continuous path for the origins of life (Zoe Todd, University of Wisconsin-Madison ​ (Department of Astronomy))

2025-03-05 16:00: Animals, Sediments, Slime, Muck and Goo:  The Record of Earth’s Early Animals and their Environments with Implications for Discovering Life Elsewhere (Mary Droser, University of California, Riverside (Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences)​)

2025-05-14 16:00: Astrochemical Origins of Planetary Habitability (Karin Öberg, Harvard University (Department of Astronomy)​)

2025-05-21 16:00: Chemical Composition of the Enceladus’ Ocean and its Habitability (Jihua Hao, University of Science and Technology of China (Department of Geochemistry and Planetary Sciences))

2026-02-04 16:00: Dated gene duplications elucidate the evolutionary assembly of the eukaryotic cell (Christopher Kay, University of Bristol)

2026-02-25 16:00: Biophysics and Life in the Universe (MARGARIDA HERMIDA, King's College London, Jacobsen Fellow (Department of Philosophy))

2026-04-21 16:00: Not-so-noble gases, key tracers of Earth’s habitability: what their behaviour in planetary interiors can tell us? (CHRYSTELE SANLOUP, Sorbonne University)

 : Water and the Origins of Life (Professor Matthew Powner (University College London))