{"id":5746,"date":"2023-05-12T20:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T04:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=5746"},"modified":"2026-07-24T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T18:55:33","slug":"fabian-klenner","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/profile\/fabian-klenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabian Klenner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I grew up in a small village near Heidelberg, Germany.  I earned a Ph.D. degree from Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany. My Ph.D. was technically in Geosciences, but my work was about Planetary Sciences and Astrobiology <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After finishing my Ph.D. in 2021, I did a two-year Postdoc in the research group of Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing at Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin where I extended my Ph.D. work and did more experiments for the detection of biosignatures on Enceladus and Europa \u2022In my current position, I combine laboratory experiments and modeling efforts to better understand chemical and physical processes in icy moon oceans, with a focus on Enceladus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My goal at the moment is to better understand the freezing of Enceladus ocean water and its emission into space.&nbsp; The big question that drives me is not only to find out if there is life out there, but also how we could detect it \u2022 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Outside of UW I like to do all kinds of sports, hiking, reading books<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Publications:<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=j6MVr08AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!iXRuYLz2TEN3fwbeCi5Ajww6wbIHvtYx6QaGC-EDtKfCDJqBvIbWRBFDk8ft7bRNLwyHs-BMq4KmPZh2$\">https:\/\/scholar.google.de\/citations?user=j6MVr08AAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;oi=ao<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in a small village near Heidelberg, Germany. I earned a Ph.D. degree from Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin, Germany.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5759,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"tags":[],"profile_types":[28],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6309,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/5746\/revisions\/6309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5746"},{"taxonomy":"profile_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/astrobio\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile_types?post=5746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}