My Research into Life on Other Worlds
Astrobiology is the study of life in the Universe – where it is, how it came to be there, what it is like, and where it might be going.
As the only life we know about for sure is on Earth, a lot of astrobiology is about trying to predict where we might find life elsewhere. I am exploring the biochemical aspects of this problem. What might the chemistry of life be like on other worlds? Can you have life swimming around in liquid nitrogen or boiling sulfur? Could life be based on silicon instead of carbon? And if the answer to any of those questions is ‘yes’, how would we detect that life from Earth?
Software or data sets described in any of my astrobiology papers is available for download in the 'Document Library' section of this site.