ElsaesserLab
Experimental Biophysics & Space Sciences
at Freie Universitaet Berlin
Our Research Mission: Life’s Building Blocks and the Search for Life in the Universe
We are a young research group at Freie Universitaet Berlin, Germany, and interested in fundamental aspects of how space environments affect organic molecules and living organisms. We combine laboratory experiments and space research in the search for life beyond Earth and we perform planetary simulation experiments to decipher chemical pathways and reaction kinetics of organic molecules in space.
News & Opportunities
Is there life on other planets in the universe? Or does it only exist on Earth? These are some of mankind's oldest questions. Today we dispose of technologies that might help to answer them. Andreas Elsaesser and Riccardo Urso from Freie Universität Berlin study the conditions for life in space and on other planets. Their lecture will give us an insight into the scientific possibilities of searching for extraterrestrial life today. What are researchers actually looking for in the endless universe? How can we explore life and its prerequisites in space without leaving Earth? Not least, their research touches upon the big philosophical question: What is life?
Is there life on other planets in the universe? Or does it only exist on Earth? These are some of mankind's oldest questions. Today we dispose of technologies that might help to answer them. Andreas Elsaesser and Riccardo Urso from Freie Universität Berlin study the conditions for life in space and on other planets. Their lecture will give us an insight into the scientific possibilities of searching for extraterrestrial life today. What are researchers actually looking for in the endless universe? How can we explore life and its prerequisites in space without leaving Earth? Not least, their research touches upon the big philosophical question: What is life?
New funding from the German Space Agency for OREOcube and Exocube.