Applications Open for the Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Washington
UWAB 25th Anniversary Event: Astrobiology Careers Panel
Recent UWAB Alum Dominic Sivitilli Accepts Postdoc at UW-APL
UWAB Alum Eliah Overby Accepts Professorship at UATX!
Over the past 20 years our program has trained the next generation of astrobiologists and made significant advances in understanding how to search for life beyond the Earth. Our program offers a rigorous, interdisciplinary dual-title PhD in a home department and Astrobiology, as well as a graduate certificate in Astrobiology. Our alumni have gone on to exciting careers at universities, government labs and elsewhere. Below we showcase the achievements of students, faculty and alumni, and on other pages you can learn about how to apply to our graduate program, learn more about our research and outreach activities, and find out the latest on our colloquium series and public events.
From Our Most Recent Newsletter
Research Highlight
Our UW Astrobiology Program members have made exciting scientific discoveries and published many research updates over the past year. Prof Brook Nunn (Genome Sciences) and her colleagues recently published their work detailing how polar microbes can shed light on ways to detect potential life in icy bodies in our solar system!
Alumni Updates
The UW Astrobiology Program has graduated over 60 alumni, who have exciting careers as faculty members, scientists, university researchers, industry specialists and, entrepreneurs. They’ve all been hard at work this past year and have shared some of their achievements, awards, and scientific publications with us here.
Recent Updates
- Applications Open for the Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Washington
The UW community supports research efforts in exoplanet and planetary science and astrobiology, primarily within… - UWAB 25th Anniversary Event: Astrobiology Careers Panel
As part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the University of Washington Astrobiology Program, we… - Recent UWAB Alum Dominic Sivitilli Accepts Postdoc at UW-APL
Dr. Dominic Sivitilli (dual-title PhD in Psychology and Astrobiology) will continue on at the University… - UWAB Alum Eliah Overby Accepts Professorship at UATX!
Dr. Eliah Overby, who completed her dual title PhD in genome sciences and astrobiology at… - (bio)Geochemistry on exoplanets: From desert planets to water worldsHilairy Hartnett Biogeochemistry integrates theory from geology, chemistry, biology and physics to address questions across…
- The cold chemistry of cryovolcanism: Insights from experimental and natural analogsMark Fox-Powell Open University ‘Cryovolcanism’ at icy worlds offers immense promise for astrobiology, as it…
- Coupling Planetary and Ecosystem Modeling to Asses Habitability and
Inhabitation in the Solar System and beyondStephane Mazevet Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, University Côte d’Azur, Nice (France) With thousands of… - Origin of Biological Homochirality by Crystallization of an RNA Precursor on a Magnetic SurfaceS. Furkan Ozturk Harvard University, Department of Physics Abstract: Life requires essential biomolecules such as amino…
- Photochemical Stability and Reactivity of Prebiotic Molecules Under Ceres-Like ConditionsJessica M Weber NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology Ceres is a dwarf…
- Astrobiology Research RotationsSam Gilbert-Janizek Presenting: Predicting Outgassing Rates for L 98-59 b with an Interior Model AB…