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In Spain there is an important center for Astrobiology (CAB, http://www.cab.inta.es). I usually visit with my students. I know scientists who work there. Many times they collaborate in our projects.

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Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC/INTA)
www.cab.inta.esin Spain

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Sometimes there are associations that provide these experiences in schools

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We have not found to much informations about romanian astrobiologist job.

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In Spain, we have the Spanish Paleontology and Astrobiology Network. Rosa de la Torre Noetzel is an Astrobiology at SPAN and we will try to contact her through videoconference.

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İn my country astrobiology

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Bir başarı hikayesi: Betül Kacar'ın Türkiye'den NASA'ya uzanan yolculuğu

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Unfortunately I haven't found anyone in my country

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http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45828571/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.WfYlqlS0PIV

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http://www2.spacescience.ro/

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Astrobiology is a university degree, so I suppose it could be possible to organize a webinar with a researcher for example.

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We dont have unfortunately any such professionals in my county... Although we have great astronomy observatories and scientists who do a great job, this specialism is very rare... But, there are two scientists (women), who are doing great researches in the space field and especially in the existing of life in other planets. Anezina Solomonidou, http://usa.greekreporter.com/2015/07/25/nasa-scientist-new-earth-planet-discovery-kepler-452-b/ and Athena Coustenis , something that makes me very proud about them!!!!

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I came to Astrobiology quite early in my research. How could I miss the implications 'Titan: the frozen Earth', 'organic chemistry closest to our planet', the 'methane cycle mimicking the water cycle on Earth', etc. Of course, ancient Greek philosophers (them again !) had already thought of a universe consisting of "many worlds". Thales, from Militos, and his students in the 7th century BCE argued for a Universe full of other planets, teaming with extraterrestrial life. They also proposed the idea with which we're all familiar today (through Drake's equation, among other and Carl Sagan's musings, and the contributions of many other scientists' arguments), i.e. that a Universe so full of stars must also have a large number of populated worlds. This proposal, was already defended by Epicurus and other Greek atomists who countered the geocentric models brought forward later on by Aristotle. The latter concept stuck, though, and hindered scientific progress in this domain for quite a long period of time. In 1862, the French scientist Camille Flammarion , published 'La pluralité des mondes habités' ('on the plurality of inhabited worlds'), in which the conditions of habitability and the presence of life on such habitable planets of our Solar System is discussed. The public loved the book, but Urbain Le Verrier, then Director of the Paris Observatory , and many of his colleagues completely rejected Flammarion's arguments, as did many of his colleagues. Flammarion was consequently fired from the Observatory... I have had better luck so far...

I'm allowed to be fascinated by the possibility that we could find information on how human beings arose and/or discover life forms elsewhere. Mars, Venus, Titan, Enceladus, Europa and other such places have been our favorite targets for exploring habitats in the Solar System and pushing current models of the origin and evolution of life to their limits, and beyond. Subsurface liquid water oceans, organic constituents swimming in exposed hydrocarbon lakes, water-laden geysers, the possibility of water hiding beneath the CO2 ice fields of Mars: All these new opportunities for exploration in the field of Astrobiology make my every day life and research work exciting and busy. Learning about and contributing to future missions to the Saturnian and Jovian systems are constant sources of joy and reward. And I love sharing these new findings in Astronomy with the public, always supportive and sometimes as passionate as we are...[an excerpt of this text was published in the "Pioneers in Astrobiology" section of the Astrobiology Magazine in February 2012]

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I came to Astrobiology quite early in my research. How could I miss the implications 'Titan: the frozen Earth', 'organic chemistry closest to our planet', the 'methane cycle mimicking the water cycle on Earth', etc. Of course, ancient Greek philosophers (them again !) had already thought of a universe consisting of "many worlds".

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I have no knowledge of anyone in Croatia doing anything in astrobiology.

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The astrobiologist Radu Popa began his career exploring the caves in Romania and was the one who had the idea of exploring volcanic lava galleries after they were discovered on Mars, suggesting that it could be the place of life on Red Planet. Currently, he works at Portland University (USA). In our lessons, we can capitalize on the information resulting from his research.

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All very interesting, pity that in italy are not very widespread as matter.

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Portugal as two well known astrobiologists Zita Martins and Joana Lima. Both of them work in other countries but we can ask them to talk to our students in a video conference.

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In Mexico there is even a National Society of Astrobiologists (but they lack a list of members or contact list): http://web.soma.org.mx
They organize a Mexican school of astrobiology (mostly for undergraduate students).
Perhaps a way to involve them in classroom activities is to invite them, after their school, to give a talk about the recent works presented to show that high-level research is done in Mexico.

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Radu Popa is an astrobyologist who studdies about the lifo on other planet.

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i do not know any astrobiologist in my country, but do know many croatian collegues that work in CERN or LIGO

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I live in Singapore and I do not think there are any astrobiologists here. In fact, astronomy as a whole is very underdeveloped here. However, there are a number of astronomy enthusiasts, who occasionally go to astronomy retreats and such to give talks. I have given presentations on astrobiology in the past.

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Astrobiologist Radu Popa talks about life on Planet Nibiru

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Astrobiologist Radu Popa  talks about life on Planet Nibiru

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In Naples where I live there is the Science centre and the osservatorio astronomico. last year I went with my students and they were very happy to learn by doing and watching what in the Universe there is.

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There is the "Osservatorio Astrofisico di arcetri" in Florence where there is an active research in Astrobiology. I will contact them for a visit of my students.

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Habilitated doctor of the Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astronomy of Vilnius University Gražina Tautvaišienė participates in various international researches of Galaxy. In addition to scientific work, she takes part in scientific pedagogical activities - she gives lectures for adults and students. The Vilnius University Planetarium and Observatory in Molėtai are the best places where schoolchildren can see planets and stars, listen to interesting lectures.

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http://reteaualiterara.ning.com/profiles/blogs/30-de-ani-de-la-zborul-in

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In Portugal there are not many professional exits in this area and there are few courses related to this area but we have very good professionals who then have to go to other countries where they work more this area. Your video speaks in a portuguese astrobiologist, Zita Martins.

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We have a lot of professionals in our country.

For example , the fampus NICOLAE  ZAMFIR, the headmaster of the project "Extreme-Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics " (ELI-NP) from  Magurele, near Bucharest !

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The work of astrobiologist is very interesting. I found SETI Italia that is a scientific experiment that exploits the potential of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected computers for searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
http://www.mconsult.it/seti/
Forward I found the Italian Society of Astrobiologists to whom I could enroll. In this way I could ask an expert to come to class to talk about her work with my pupils.
https://astrobiologia.weebly.com/

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http://ovnis-direct.com/arguments-pour-lorigine-martienne-de-la-meteorite-marocaine-tissint.html

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http://marrakech-astro.uca.ma/Ouca/projet_dev_ouca.htm

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While surfing in Internet I found Daniela Billi as an astrobiologist. She teaches at the Tor Vergata University, in Rome. I could involve her job to show tests made in space.

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ResearchItaly - Four Italian astrobiology tests in space

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The Progress 56 carrier, that was launched on July 23 from Kazakhstan to reach the International Space Station (ISS), took four astrobiology tests to space in which Italian researchers will participate with the aid of the Italian Space Agency. The objective is to test life resistance as we know it, outside the Earth.

Three of these experiments will evaluate the ability of extremophile organisms - adapted to live in extreme environmental conditions - to survive in simulated Martian conditions. BOSS (Biofilm Organisms Surfing Space) and BIOMEX (Biology and Mars Experiment) focus on cyanobacteria living in a desert environment on which the team of the Laboratory of Astrobiology and Cyanobacteria Molecular Biology of the Biology Department of the University of Roma Tor Vergata has been working for years under the leadership of Daniela Billi. These are microorganisms isolated from hot and cold deserts - such as the Dry valleys in Antarctica and the Atacama Desert in Chile - that are considered terrestrial equivalents of Mars.

"Preliminary studies in simulated conditions of void and ultraviolet radiation carried out on desert cyanobacteria characterized by an extraordinary resistance to desiccation, UV and ionizing radiations - Daniela Billi explained - suggest that, once taken back to the Earth and rehydrated, they can reactivate their metabolism and repair the induced damage, including those involving DNA. The challenge is represented by the fact that, in Space, terrestrial extremophile organisms will not only be exposed to Earth simulated conditions, but also to a combination of void, temperature extremes, cosmic and solar radiations".

In particular, the BOSS project aims at verifying whether the organization of these cyanobacteria in biofilms can improve its performance in the space environment, while the BIOMEX experiment has the purpose of verifying if the shielding produced by minerals simulating the Martian and lunar surfaces can encourage microbial resistance. The third experiment, also involving a team of researchers from the University of Tuscia, aims at testing the resistance of Antarctic cryptoendolithic fungi inside and on the surface of samples of equivalent lunar and Martian rock. With the help of a team of researchers from the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in Catania, the fourth experiment was conducted to study the action exerted by the solar UV radiation on organic molecules of varying complexity.

The experiments will be carried out outside the International Space Station. At the end of August, the Expose-R2 facility of the European Space Agency, containing the samples, will be located outside the European laboratory Columbus during an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) by astronauts currently on board the ISS. During a second EVA, in October, the sun shield will be removed from Expose-R2 and the four experiments that will last 12 to 18 months will begin. After being carried back to Earth, the samples will be subject to investigations that will increase our knowledge on the origin of life.

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Four Italian astrobiology tests in space

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The Progress 56 carrier, that was launched on July 23 from Kazakhstan to reach the International Space Station (ISS), took four astrobiology tests to space in which Italian researchers will participate with the aid of the Italian Space Agency. The objective is to test life resistance as we know it, outside the Earth.

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When I do research about"astrobiologist" in my country I can read:
https://www.researchitaly.it/progetti/quattro-esperimenti-italiani-di-astrobiologia-nello-spazio/

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The most successful astrobiologist from my country is Betül Kaçar. She is the first science woman from Turkey who gets scholarship from NASA. She has studied at Harvard University and get an offer about prof. degree from University of Arizona

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Betul Kacar ( pron. BE-tuel KUH-jarr) is an astrobiologist who is interested in understanding life's origins, evolution and possible existence elsewhere in the Universe. Only one history of life has been recorded on our planet, but can we reconstruct the contributing metabolic factors of this biological past? Is life a result of a fluke accident? What is the likelihood of life occurring elsewhere in the Universe? To answer these questions, she combines computational and experimental tools and travels backwards in evolutionary time in the laboratory. She follows the evolutionary history of our DNA to unravel how the harsh conditions of our ancient planet shaped life to be the way it is today, and explores the varying roles of chance and necessity in life's evolution.

Betul Kacar obtained her PhD from Emory University working jointly in the Department of Chemistry and the Emory School of Medicine. She was awarded a NASA Astrobiology Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2012 to bring abstractly reconstructed ancestral DNA sequences into the lab for physical, chemical and biological characterization by expressing inferred DNA sequences in modern organisms. In 2014, she moved her laboratory activities to the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, where she has focused on reconstructing key enzymatic intermediates between biological activity and global geochemical reservoirs throughout the Earth's deep history.

Betul Kacar was recently awarded grants from the Templeton Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the NASA Exobiology and Evolutionary Biology Programs to continue this work deeper into the past and to resurrect greater portions of the universally shared ancestral genome. The overall goal of her work is to assess the possible environmental impacts of ancient enzymes on global-scale signatures that record biological activity.

Betul Kacar's work has been recognized by various media outlets, such as NOVA Science, BBC Focus, New Scientist, WGBH, MIT Technology Review, SETI Institute, Astrobiology Magazine, Wired, Popular Science, PBS, iO9, CNN Turk, Quanta Magazine. She cares deeply about science education, outreach and communication, in 2012 she co-founded SAGANet,: The Online STEM Mentorship and Education Network, she serves on the Board of Advisory Committee of the MIT BioBuilder Foundation and was named "Way Cool Scientist" by the Science Club for Girls, USA in 2016.
For a brief list of Betul's awards and activities, please visit Brief CV. For even more information, please see Betul Kacar_CV.
For Turkish please visit Betul Kacar Kimdir?
Betul can be reached at betul (at) arizona (dot) edu or via

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Betul Kacar (pron. BE-tuel KUH-jarr) is an astrobiologist who is interested in understanding life's origins, evolution and possible existence elsewhere in the Universe. Only one history of life has been recorded on our planet, but can we reconstruct the contributing metabolic factors of this biological past? Is life a result of a fluke accident?

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When I do some research on the Astrobiology job, I come up with two names, Betül Kaçar and

Arsev Umur Aydinoglu. They were both Post Doctoral researcher at NASA Astrobiology Institute. I can mention about them in the class that there are Turkish people out there working on Astrobiology.

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There doesn't appear to be any Astrobiologists working in Ireland, there is however an online Astrobiology course, that is free and advertised by the Irish Federation of Astronomical Studies. Also a very interesting article published March 2017 in the Trinity News that
describes the newest development in the quest to find habitable exoplanets http://trinitynews.ie/habitable-exoplanets/

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We are accustomed to seeing animals in environments such as rivers, forests or even in the backyard of our house. However, there are species of animals that live in extreme environments. This incredible adaptation was due both to evolution and to the ability to use many things in these environments in their favor. These incredible animals are called extremophiles, that is, organisms capable of living in extreme environments. These organisms are very peculiar both in their form and in their power of adaptation and survival.
The origin of these animals is confused, in part, with the origin of the Earth itself. One of the most widely held hypotheses is that life on Earth has sprung up around hydrothermal vents on ocean floors. Extremophiles exist in a variety of ways, being they can be prokaryotes (beings made of simple cells) or eukaryotes (beings with complex cells), besides being unicellular (contains only one cell) or multicellular (contains several cells).
There are at least five main types of extremophilia:
Adaptation in saline environments: halophiles;
Adaptation to elevated temperatures: thermophilic and hyperthermophilic;
Adaptation at very low temperatures: psychrophiles;
Adaptation to pH extremes: acidophilic and alkaliphilic;
Adaptation to high levels of radiation: radioresistant microorganisms.
The term extremophile was first used in 1974 by MacElroy. He used the term when referring to extreme environments whose characteristics would exclude the vast majority of life species known on the planet. The mild environments, which house much of the Earth's life quantity, are those with a temperature of up to 40 degrees, pH values ​​close to neutrality, relative salinity of the oceans, atmospheric pressure and radiation similar to the earth's surface under normal conditions. Apart from this, only organisms such as very efficient adaptation managed to survive in environments outside of such characteristics.
Extremophiles are extensively studied in astrobiology, which is a branch of astronomy that aims to understand the origins of life on Earth and how life could adapt on other planets and moons. These animals live in very similar environmental conditions to those found elsewhere in the cosmos and some behave very much like the first types of life on our planet.
http://labisismi.fmrp.usp.br/index.php/br/extremofilos
http://ead.hemocentro.fmrp.usp.br/joomla/index.php/publicacoes/ciencia-em-foco/524-extremofilos-no-foco-da-ciencia
http://www1.univap.br/spilling/AB/Aula_11_Extremofilos.pdf

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I met the italian Astrobiologist Daniela Billi in Tor Vergata University (Rome, Italy) while I was attending a Master. She teachs also to young students, in special courses for high school; students appreciate her and the exciting topic!

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Working on Save The Planet eTwinning project

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Ioan Ardelean is a researcher at Institut of Biology of the Romanian Academy. Ioan Ardelean is author of Magnetotactic Bacteria and Their Potential for Terraformation. It is very interesting to read this .

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Dreaming and imagination. School environment and culture should serve for these things above mentioned.

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In my research i didn't find any astrobiologist in my country.

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Sadly most experts in the field of astrobiology seem to have fled to other countries .One example is Radu Popa which now works at Portland State University. I think it would be a great opportunity if we could get a scientist on a skype call with the entire class and do a AMA with them.

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https://www.researchitaly.it/progetti/quattro-esperimenti-italiani-di-astrobiologia-nello-spazio/
https://www.arcetri.astro.it/ricerca/planetologia-e-astrobiologia

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http://www2.spacescience.ro/
http://www.esero.ro/?p=527

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Two Italian experiment.

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Two Italian Experiments of the Tor Vergata University on the International Space Station to test the tenacity of life, including the Moon and Mars.

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Astrobiologia/ Due esperimenti italiani dell'Università "Tor Vergata" sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per provare la tenacia della vita, anche sulla Luna e su Marte

É partito la notte del 23 luglio dal cosmodromo di Baikonur il cargo Progress 56 con a bordo due esperimenti selezionati dall'Agenzia Spaziale Europea per testare la tenacia di estremofili - microrganismi che sopravvivono e proliferano in condizioni ambientali proibitive per gli esseri umani - al fine di provare la resistenza della vita come noi la conosciamo e la stabilità di bioimpronte per la ricerca di vita passata o presente su Marte.

I due progetti internazionali BOSS (Biofilm Organisms Surfing Space) e BIOMEX (BIOlogy and Mars Experiment) - coordinati da Petra Rettberg del DLR di Colonia e da Jean-Pierre de Vera del DLR di Berlino -, vedono per l'Italia la partecipazione dell'Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata.
Il responsabile scientifico è la dott.ssa Daniela Billi, leader del Laboratorio di Astrobiologia e Biologia Molecolare di Cianobatteri del Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università "Tor Vergata".
I cianobatteri di ambiente desertico, sui quali il team dell'Università romana lavora da anni, sono stati posizionati in un contenitore dell'ESA detto EXPOSE-R2 e dopo il lancio hanno raggiunto, in meno di 6 ore, la Stazione Spaziale Internazionale.
Il prossimo 18 agosto EXPOSE-R2 verrà collocato all'esterno della Stazione Spaziale durante un'attività extraveicolare degli astronauti. "Grazie al finanziamento ottenuto dall'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - spiega Daniela Billi - sarà possibile investigare la tenacia di diversi estremofili selezionatiti per gli esperimenti, nell'ambiente spaziale e marziano (simulato in bassa orbita terrestre)". Alla base del progetto BOSS l'ipotesi che gli estremofili in forma di biofilm possano tollerare l'ambiente spaziale e marziano simulato. Mentre nell'esperimento BIOMEX viene valutata la sopravvivenza di estremofili in presenza di regoliti lunari e marziani, in un contesto scientifico che vuol testare anche la stabilità di macromolecole biologiche per la ricerca di vita su Marte e per future sperimentazioni da condursi in un luogo più estremo della bassa orbita terrestre come la Luna.
"Studi preliminari in condizioni simulate di vuoto e radiazione ultravioletta condotti su cianobatteri desertici caratterizzati da una straordinaria resistenza al disseccamento, radiazioni UV e ionizzanti - anticipa Daniela Bili - suggeriscono che, una volta riportati a Terra e reidratati, abbiano la potenzialità di riaccendere il metabolismo e riparare i danni indotti, compresi quelli al DNA. La sfida risiede nel fatto che nello spazio gli estremofili terrestri saranno esposti non solamente alle condizioni simulate a Terra, ma ad una combinazione di vuoto, estremi di temperatura, radiazioni cosmiche e solari".

Gli "Estremofili nello spazio" saranno protagonisti anche della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori, il 26 settembre, con un laboratorio interattivo presso le Scuderie Aldobrandini (Frascati). Esperimenti di astrobiologia in bassa orbita terrestre verranno raccontati dagli studenti del liceo Scientifico e Linguistico di Ceccano ai ragazzi delle scuole Medie.
Quest'anno la Notte è dedicata al tema della alla "Sostenibilità" e la novità di questa edizione 2014 è che alle sedi di Roma e Frascati si sono aggiunte quelle di Trieste, Bologna, Milano, Ferrara, Catania, Bari, Cagliari, Pavia,e Pisa.
La Notte Europea dei Ricercatori è un progetto promosso dalla Commissione Europea, coordinato e realizzato da Frascati Scienza in collaborazione con l'Assessorato alla Cultura e Politiche Giovanili della Regione Lazio, Comune di Frascati, ASI, CNR, ENEA Frascati e Casaccia, EGO VIRGO, ESA-ESRIN, INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali e INAF Bologna, INFN Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Ferrara, Frascati, Milano, Pavia, Pisa, Roma e Trieste, con Sapienza Università di Roma e il Dipartimento di Management, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata e Università Roma Tre. Partecipano all'evento, in qualità di partner di Frascati Scienza, l'INGV, Telethon, G.Eco, Associazione Tuscolana di Astronomia (ATA), Accatagliato, Associazione Arte e Scienza e Istituto Salesiano Villa Sora.
Info e programma http://www.frascatiscienza.it/

Roma, 24 luglio 2014

Ufficio Stampa d'Ateneo
via Orazio Raimondo, 18 00173 Roma
Tel. +39 06 72592709 - 06 72592059
Cell. 320.4375681
ufficio.stampa@uniroma2.it

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Astrobiologia/ Due esperimenti italiani dell'Università "Tor Vergata" sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per provare la tenacia della vita, anche sulla Luna e su Marte É partito la notte del 23 luglio dal cosmodromo di Baikonur il cargo Progress 56 con a bordo due esperimenti selezionati dall'Agenzia Spaziale Europea per testare la tenacia di estremofili - microrganismi che sopravvivono e proliferano in condizioni ambientali proibitive per gli esseri umani - al fine di provare la resistenza della vita come noi la conosciamo e la stabilità di bioimpronte per la ricerca di vita passata o presente su Marte.

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Astrobiology / Two Italian Experiments of the Tor Vergata University on the International Space Station to test the tenacity of life, including the Moon and Mars

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Astrobiologia/ Due esperimenti italiani dell'Università "Tor Vergata" sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per provare la tenacia della vita, anche sulla Luna e su Marte

É partito la notte del 23 luglio dal cosmodromo di Baikonur il cargo Progress 56 con a bordo due esperimenti selezionati dall'Agenzia Spaziale Europea per testare la tenacia di estremofili - microrganismi che sopravvivono e proliferano in condizioni ambientali proibitive per gli esseri umani - al fine di provare la resistenza della vita come noi la conosciamo e la stabilità di bioimpronte per la ricerca di vita passata o presente su Marte.

I due progetti internazionali BOSS (Biofilm Organisms Surfing Space) e BIOMEX (BIOlogy and Mars Experiment) - coordinati da Petra Rettberg del DLR di Colonia e da Jean-Pierre de Vera del DLR di Berlino -, vedono per l'Italia la partecipazione dell'Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata.
Il responsabile scientifico è la dott.ssa Daniela Billi, leader del Laboratorio di Astrobiologia e Biologia Molecolare di Cianobatteri del Dipartimento di Biologia dell'Università "Tor Vergata".
I cianobatteri di ambiente desertico, sui quali il team dell'Università romana lavora da anni, sono stati posizionati in un contenitore dell'ESA detto EXPOSE-R2 e dopo il lancio hanno raggiunto, in meno di 6 ore, la Stazione Spaziale Internazionale.
Il prossimo 18 agosto EXPOSE-R2 verrà collocato all'esterno della Stazione Spaziale durante un'attività extraveicolare degli astronauti. "Grazie al finanziamento ottenuto dall'Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - spiega Daniela Billi - sarà possibile investigare la tenacia di diversi estremofili selezionatiti per gli esperimenti, nell'ambiente spaziale e marziano (simulato in bassa orbita terrestre)". Alla base del progetto BOSS l'ipotesi che gli estremofili in forma di biofilm possano tollerare l'ambiente spaziale e marziano simulato. Mentre nell'esperimento BIOMEX viene valutata la sopravvivenza di estremofili in presenza di regoliti lunari e marziani, in un contesto scientifico che vuol testare anche la stabilità di macromolecole biologiche per la ricerca di vita su Marte e per future sperimentazioni da condursi in un luogo più estremo della bassa orbita terrestre come la Luna.
"Studi preliminari in condizioni simulate di vuoto e radiazione ultravioletta condotti su cianobatteri desertici caratterizzati da una straordinaria resistenza al disseccamento, radiazioni UV e ionizzanti - anticipa Daniela Bili - suggeriscono che, una volta riportati a Terra e reidratati, abbiano la potenzialità di riaccendere il metabolismo e riparare i danni indotti, compresi quelli al DNA. La sfida risiede nel fatto che nello spazio gli estremofili terrestri saranno esposti non solamente alle condizioni simulate a Terra, ma ad una combinazione di vuoto, estremi di temperatura, radiazioni cosmiche e solari".

Gli "Estremofili nello spazio" saranno protagonisti anche della Notte Europea dei Ricercatori, il 26 settembre, con un laboratorio interattivo presso le Scuderie Aldobrandini (Frascati). Esperimenti di astrobiologia in bassa orbita terrestre verranno raccontati dagli studenti del liceo Scientifico e Linguistico di Ceccano ai ragazzi delle scuole Medie.
Quest'anno la Notte è dedicata al tema della alla "Sostenibilità" e la novità di questa edizione 2014 è che alle sedi di Roma e Frascati si sono aggiunte quelle di Trieste, Bologna, Milano, Ferrara, Catania, Bari, Cagliari, Pavia,e Pisa.
La Notte Europea dei Ricercatori è un progetto promosso dalla Commissione Europea, coordinato e realizzato da Frascati Scienza in collaborazione con l'Assessorato alla Cultura e Politiche Giovanili della Regione Lazio, Comune di Frascati, ASI, CNR, ENEA Frascati e Casaccia, EGO VIRGO, ESA-ESRIN, INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali e INAF Bologna, INFN Bari, Bologna, Cagliari, Catania, Ferrara, Frascati, Milano, Pavia, Pisa, Roma e Trieste, con Sapienza Università di Roma e il Dipartimento di Management, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata e Università Roma Tre. Partecipano all'evento, in qualità di partner di Frascati Scienza, l'INGV, Telethon, G.Eco, Associazione Tuscolana di Astronomia (ATA), Accatagliato, Associazione Arte e Scienza e Istituto Salesiano Villa Sora.
Info e programma http://www.frascatiscienza.it/

Roma, 24 luglio 2014

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Astrobiologia/ Due esperimenti italiani dell'Università "Tor Vergata" sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per provare la tenacia della vita, anche sulla Luna e su Marte

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Astrobiologia/ Due esperimenti italiani dell'Università "Tor Vergata" sulla Stazione Spaziale Internazionale per provare la tenacia della vita, anche sulla Luna e su Marte É partito la notte del 23 luglio dal cosmodromo di Baikonur il cargo Progress 56 con a bordo due esperimenti selezionati dall'Agenzia Spaziale Europea per testare la tenacia di estremofili - microrganismi che sopravvivono e proliferano in condizioni ambientali proibitive per gli esseri umani - al fine di provare la resistenza della vita come noi la conosciamo e la stabilità di bioimpronte per la ricerca di vita passata o presente su Marte.

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What is astrobiology? What do you call those who do this job? how do they work? answers are sought in the classroom environment and using internet connections. Let's imagine a planet that has a temperature that can be deadly for us. But if they live there in their own atmosphere, how are their physical features, their color, their food, their home. Let's imagine.

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I have written the word "astrobiology" in Romanian and all I have found was a course of initiation for teachers of physics, chemistry and biology two years ago.

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Astrobiyology is a perfect area waiting to be discovered.Unfortunately, there is not enough work in the field of astrobiology in my country

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This is the HP of the Italian Astrobiology Association (https://astrobiologia.weebly.com/) it is quite recent but already very active and open to innovation. I have seen a coupla interviews with Mr Saladino, one of its founders. At the moment there are not programs or workshops open to Middle School Students available.

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There is this site, http://www2.spacescience.ro , where we can get up-to-date informations about Romanian scientists who work in this domanin. On July 1, 2015, Aurelian A. Radu delivered a seminar about Astrobiology in front of a group of students from the Faculty of Phyisics, University of Bucharest.

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In Italy there is no degree in astrobiology so we haven't here any astrobiologist. Just in the biology faculties you can find, only in some universities, a simple astrobiology course always optional. Besides it would be very difficult to find such a job here in my country.

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We can explain and meet new people with link.
Actually If we affect to them they want to learn more.
Like this: http://earthsky.org/

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Athina Coustenis is the one that I found and I would say it would be very interesting to be able to contact with her and share her job secrets with my students on grade 5

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Elias Chatzitheodoridis

Associate Professor, National Technical University of Athens, Greece; School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering; Department of Geological Sciences.Teaching: Mineralogy, Petrology, Economic Geology, Applications of Informatics and Programming Languages, Environmental Geochemistry, Applied Mineralogy

Original research on Martian meteorites

Materials and technologies oriented research interests

Research on micro- and mega-gravity effects in micro-organisms

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Romanian astrobiologist Radu Popa who collaborates with

Scorei Ion Romulus (research interests are Origin of life) and  Vily M. Cimpoiasu-biologist.
Radu Popa began his career exploring the caves in Romania and was the one who had the idea of ​​exploring volcanic lava galleries, after they were discovered on Mars.
In my classroom activities, these scientists would be

exemple in choosing the profession, for my students.

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Close to Madrid, there is a very important astrobiologist installation. It is the CAB, installation that depend on the NASA. Every year, my high scholl organize a trip to this centre for students of high courses.

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In Italy there is a book writer for children and teenagers who for several years has made the astronomer. Her name is Lara Albanese. Lara collaborates with several periodicals and national newspapers with articles of scientific divulging concerning astronomy and each year participates in the Book Festival organized by the institute in which I work.

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It's not about astrobiology, but Greek women astrophysicists

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Επτά ελληνίδες επιστήμονες μιλούν για τη διαδρομή τους και συμβουλεύουν τους νέους που αρχίζουν τη ζωή τους κοιτάζοντας... ψηλά.
Με τον ερχομό του 2012 η ελληνική αστρονομική κοινότητα είχε την ικανοποίηση να δει δύο διακεκριμένες συναδέλφους να βραβεύονται από την Αμερικανική Αστρονομική Εταιρεία (American Astronomical Society, AAS). Η Χρύσα Κουβελιώτου, που ασχολείται με Αστροφυσική Υψηλών Ενεργειών, πήρε το βραβείο Ντάνι Χάινεμαν (Dannie Heineman), το οποίο συναπονέμεται από το Αμερικανικό Ινστιτούτο Φυσικής (American Institute of Physics, AIP) και την AAS. Η Λία Αθανασούλα, που ασχολείται με Γαλαξιακή Δυναμική, πήρε το βραβείο Μπράουερ (Brouwer), το οποίο απονέμεται από τον Τομέα Δυναμικής Αστρονομίας της AAS. Υπάρχουν όμως και πολλές άλλες ελληνίδες αστρονόμοι που διαπρέπουν στο εξωτερικό. Με την ευκαιρία των βραβεύσεων και της Διεθνούς Ημέρας της Γυναίκας, που γιορτάζεται στις 8 Μαρτίου, επτά ελληνίδες αστρονόμοι της Διασποράς μιλούν στο ΒΗΜΑScience για τη ζωή τους, την επιστήμη τους και τα όνειρά τους και δίνουν τη γνώμη τους σε όσους σκέπτονται να ακολουθήσουν μεταπτυχιακή καριέρα. Πέρα από τη Χρύσα Κουβελιώτου, που εργάζεται στο κέντρο Μάρσαλ της NASA, και τη Λία Αθανασούλα, που εργάζεται στο Αστεροσκοπείο της Μασσαλίας, οι υπόλοιπες πέντε είναι οι: Αθηνά Κουστένη (Πλανητολογία, Αστεροσκοπείο Meudon, Παρίσι), Βίκυ Καλογερά (Αστροφυσική Υψηλών Ενεργειών, καθηγήτρια στο Πανεπιστήμιο Northwestern, ΗΠΑ), Δήμητρα Ρηγοπούλου (Αστρονομία Υπερύθρου, Πανεπιστήμιο Οξφόρδης), Ευανθία Χατζημηνάογλου (Ενεργοί Γαλαξιακοί Πυρήνες, Ευρωπαϊκό Αστεροσκοπείο του Νότου, ESO) και Βάσω Παυλίδου (Αστροφυσική Υψηλών Ενεργειών, Ινστιτούτο Ραδιοαστρονομίας Max Planck, Βόννη). Και οι πέντε έχουν δεχθεί πολλές τιμητικές διακρίσεις, ιδίως οι δύο πρώτες που είναι και επιστημονικά ωριμότερες. Αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι οι τέσσερις από τις επτά έχουν τίτλους σπουδών από το ΑΠΘ: οι τρεις (Καλογερά, Χατζημηνάογλου, Παυλίδου) πτυχίο Φυσικής και η τέταρτη (Αθανασούλα) διδακτορικό δίπλωμα. Αλλά ας αφήσουμε τις ίδιες να μιλήσουν για τις σπουδές τους, την έρευνά τους και τη ζωή τους.

ΧΡΥΣΑ ΚΟΥΒΕΛΙΩΤΟΥ
"Με τραβούσε η πρόσκληση του απρόσιτου αγνώστου"

Οταν ήμουν μικρή, περνούσα πολλά καλοκαιρινά βράδια με τους φίλους μου στην αμμουδιά, κοιτάζοντας τα αστέρια. Η πρόκληση του απρόσιτου αγνώστου με τραβούσε σαν μαγνήτης και με ώθησε από τότε να χαράξω την πορεία της καριέρας μου. Οταν πήρα το πτυχίο Φυσικής από το Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ρώτησα τον καθηγητή μου πώς και πού θα μπορούσα να σπουδάσω Αστρονομία. Μου απάντησε: "Δεν σου συνιστώ καθόλου αυτή την επιλογή. Δεν υπάρχει μέλλον σε αυτή την επιστήμη". Ομως εγώ αγνόησα τη συμβουλή του. Οταν είπα στον πατέρα μου ότι ήθελα να φύγω από την Ελλάδα για μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές, εκείνος μου απάντησε: "Θα προτιμούσα να κάνεις οικογένεια εδώ, αλλά δεν θα σε εμποδίσω".
Μετά το διδακτορικό μου εργάστηκα για ένα διάστημα στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών αλλά όταν παρουσιάστηκε η ευκαιρία, έκανα το μεγάλο βήμα και βρέθηκα στις ΗΠΑ. Πάντοτε ήθελα να παρατηρώ το Σύμπαν, να βιώνω την απρόσμενη χαρά της ανακάλυψης νέων φαινομένων και να λύνω μυστήρια για να κατανοώ τον κόσμο. Κάθε φορά που μαθαίνω κάτι καινούργιο αντιλαμβάνομαι πόσο λίγα γνωρίζω, πόσες ζωές χρειάζομαι για να βρω τις απαντήσεις και πόσες μελλοντικές γενιές θα έχουν τις ίδιες ανησυχίες και θα ακολουθήσουν παρόμοια πορεία.
Η συμβουλή μου στους επίδοξους νέους επιστήμονες είναι: αποφασίστε εσείς για την τύχη σας. Οι καθηγητές σας θα σας οδηγήσουν στο σταυροδρόμι, αλλά εσείς θα αποφασίσετε πότε θα το διαβείτε και προς ποια κατεύθυνση. Αλλά να έχετε πάντα στο μυαλό σας αυτό: όσα εμπόδια και αν βρεθούν στον δρόμο σας, ακολουθήστε τα όνειρά σας και θα σας πάνε στα αστέρια.

ΛΙΑ ΑΘΑΝΑΣΟΥΛΑ
"Είναι απαραίτητο να φύγει κανείς στο εξωτερικό"

Πήρα το Διδακτορικό μου από το Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, την εποχή που ήμουν υπότροφος στον Δημόκριτο. Εκείνο τον καιρό είχαν επιστρέψει αρκετοί Ελληνες με Διδακτορικό από το εξωτερικό και μας έδωσαν μερικά μαθήματα που με βοήθησαν αφάνταστα. Εφυγα για το εξωτερικό λίγο μετά το Διδακτορικό μου, μου άρεσε η Γαλλία και έμεινα εδώ. Νομίζω ότι είναι απαραίτητο να φύγει κάθε νέος επιστήμονας στο εξωτερικό. Τώρα αν αυτό θα είναι για μόνιμη εγκατάσταση (όπως συνέβη με εμένα) ή προσωρινή, εξαρτάται από πολλά πράγματα, τον χαρακτήρα του καθενός, τις συνθήκες, το περιβάλλον, την οικογένεια κ.λπ. Είναι μια πολύ προσωπική απόφαση και είναι δύσκολο να δώσει κανείς μια συμβουλή. Επιστημονικά είναι πολύ καλύτερα στο εξωτερικό, όχι μόνο επειδή υπάρχουν πολύ περισσότερα χρήματα για όργανα, για ταξίδια συνεργασίας και για συνέδρια, αλλά και επειδή υπάρχουν πολύ περισσότερες ευκαιρίες και πολύ καλύτερη οργάνωση.
Στην αρχή δεν ήταν σίγουρο ότι θα έμενα μόνιμα στη Γαλλία. Πήγαινα για να δω πώς θα μου φαινόταν η δουλειά εκεί. Μόνο έπειτα από ένα - δυο χρόνια αποφάσισα ότι θα έμενα οριστικά. Ο πατέρας μου μέχρι τέλους πίστευε ότι η Αστρονομία είναι μια παροδική ιστορία και ότι θα συνερχόμουν σύντομα και θα έπιανα μια πιο "λογική" δουλειά. Η μητέρα μου είχε πολύ γρήγορα καταλάβει ότι η Αστρονομία ήταν κάτι πολύ πιο βαθύ για μένα. Ετσι τελικά ευχαριστήθηκε όταν της ανήγγειλα από το τηλέφωνο ότι η θέση που είχα μπορούσε να γίνει μόνιμη και σκεφτόμουν να μείνω εδώ. Οταν το ξανασυζητήσαμε αργότερα, μου είπαν και οι δύο ότι έπρεπε να κάνω αυτό που ήθελα και που θα με έκανε πιο ευτυχισμένη. Το ξέρω ότι τους έλειψα πολύ, αλλά δεν μου το είπαν ποτέ, το κατάλαβα μόνο από όσα έμαθα κατά καιρούς από άλλους.

ΕΥΑΝΘΙΑ ΧΑΤΖΗΜΗΝΑΟΓΛΟΥ
"Οι νυχτερινές παρατηρήσεις μου φαίνονται ακόμη μαγικές"

Ημουν 6 χρόνων όταν αποφάσισα πως "όταν μεγαλώσω θα γίνω αστρονόμος". Τελικά σπούδασα Φυσική στο Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης ενώ παράλληλα αγόρασα και ένα μικρό τηλεσκόπιο και παρατηρούσα από το μπαλκόνι πλανήτες, νεφελώματα και διπλούς αστέρες τις ξάστερες νύχτες, με πιστή συντροφιά τις γάτες μου. Πήρα διδακτορικό στη Γαλλία και η εύρεση της πρώτης μεταδιδακτορικής μου δουλειάς ήταν μια από τις μεγαλύτερες προκλήσεις που αντιμετώπισα. Η αμφιβολία για το αν έκανα τη σωστή επιλογή, όταν τελικά παρουσιάστηκαν δύο ευκαιρίες, με κυνηγάει ακόμη.
Οσο πιο βαθιά μπαίνω στον επαγγελματικό χώρο της Αστροφυσικής, τόσο απομακρύνομαι από το παιδικό μου όνειρο αλλά και από την ερασιτεχνική αστρονομία. Περνάω τον περισσότερο καιρό μπροστά στον υπολογιστή μου, οι νυχτερινές παρατηρήσεις όμως μου φαίνονται ακόμη μαγικές και προσπαθώ να πηγαίνω στο τηλεσκόπιο όποτε μου δίνεται η ευκαιρία.
Η Αστρονομία μού προσέφερε μια συναρπαστική ζωή, τη δυνατότητα να δουλέψω σε μερικά από τα μεγαλύτερα εργαστήρια Αστροφυσικής του κόσμου, να επισκεφθώ μέρη που αλλιώς και κατά πάσα πιθανότητα δεν θα είχα δει ποτέ, όπως τις κορυφές τον Ανδεων, και να ζήσω στα υπέροχα Κανάρια Νησιά. Παρ' όλα αυτά, υπήρξαν και υπάρχουν δυσκολίες: η Αστρονομία διέπεται από έντονο ανταγωνισμό, έχει μια πολύ απότομη πυραμιδική δομή και τελικά λίγες μόνιμες θέσεις εργασίας παγκοσμίως. Kαι για να πραγματοποιήσει κανείς το όνειρό του χρειάζεται να επενδύσει πολύ περισσότερο από ατέλειωτες ώρες μελέτης και εργασίας: χρειάζεται να αφιερώσει τη ζωή του.

ΑΘΗΝΑ ΚΟΥΣΤΕΝΗ
"Μελετώ ουράνια αντικείμενα που μπορούμε να επισκεφθούμε"

Αρχισα να ενδιαφέρομαι για την Αστρονομία από την εποχή που ήμουν 15 χρόνων, τότε που διάβαζα βιβλία των Καρλ Σέιγκαν και Ισαάκ Ασίμοφ. Επίσης μου άρεσε να παρακολουθώ στην τηλεόραση τόσο τη σειρά Κόσμος (Cosmos) του Σέιγκαν όσο και τη σειρά Θεμέλια (Founda-tions) του Ασίμοφ. Αποφοίτησα από ένα γαλλικό σχολείο της Αθήνας και αυτό μου επέτρεψε να εγγραφώ απευθείας στο Πανεπιστήμιο Παρίσι 7 (Πέτρος και Μαρία Κιουρί), όπου σπούδασα Αστροφυσική και Διαστημική Φυσική. Πήρα επίσης πτυχίο Αγγλικής Φιλολογίας από το Πανεπιστήμιο Παρίσι 3 (Σορβόννη), για το οποίο επέμενε ο πατέρας μου, ως ένα "δίχτυ ασφαλείας", για την περίπτωση που δεν θα μπορούσα να βρω δουλειά στην Αστρονομία!
Προς το τέλος των πανεπιστημιακών σπουδών μου συνάντησα έναν γάλλο πλανητολόγο του Αστεροσκοπείου του Παρισιού, ο οποίος εργαζόταν σε δεδομένα της αποστολής Βόγιατζερ (Voyager). Με βάση αυτό το υλικό μελέτησα την ατμόσφαιρα του Τιτάνα, δορυφόρου του Κρόνου, και πήρα Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα στην Αστροφυσική και τη Διαστημική Τεχνολογία.
Πάντα ενδιαφερόμουν να ασχοληθώ με ένα ερευνητικό πεδίο όπου θα μπορούσα να ελέγξω θεωρίες ή μοντέλα σχετικά με ουράνια αντικείμενα, τα οποία θα μπορούσαμε να επισκεφθούμε με διαστημόπλοια. Για αυτό προτιμούσα πάντα να ασχολούμαι με την Πλανητολογία και όχι με άστρα ή απομακρυσμένους γαλαξίες. Αξίζει να σημειώσω ότι όλη η επιστημονική μου εξέλιξη αναπτύχθηκε στο ίδιο εργαστήριο του Αστεροσκοπείου της Μεντόν στο Παρίσι, κάτι που δεν είναι συνηθισμένο στη σημερινή εποχή.

ΔΗΜΗΤΡΑ ΡΗΓΟΠΟΥΛΟΥ
"Είναι σπουδαίο να ακολουθείς ως επάγγελμα ένα όνειρο"

Από νεαρή ηλικία ήθελα να ασχοληθώ με τις επιστήμες και να μελετήσω τον μακρόκοσμο γύρω μου. Το 1983 έτυχε να παρακολουθήσω την εκτόξευση του πρώτου δορυφόρου για την εξερεύνηση του Διαστήματος στο υπέρυθρο φως, του IRAS (InfraRed Astronomical Satellite). Ο δορυφόρος ήταν το αποτέλεσμα μιας διεθνούς συνεργασίας μεταξύ επιστημόνων από την Αγγλία, την Ολλανδία και την Αμερική. Ισως δεν ήταν τυχαίο ότι η πτυχιακή εργασία μου στο Πανεπιστήμιο Ιωαννίνων βασίστηκε σε δεδομένα του δορυφόρου IRAS, και από τότε αποφάσισα πως η κατεύθυνση που ήθελα να ακολουθήσω ήταν η Αστρονομία του υπερύθρου. Ετσι ακολούθησα μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στο Queen Mary College (University of London), την έδρα της αγγλικής ομάδας του IRAS, και έκτοτε εργάστηκα με δεδομένα από όλους τους δορυφόρους παρατήρησης στο υπέρυθρο.
Η έρευνα στην Αστροφυσική είναι αρκετά ενδιαφέρουσα αλλά και ανταγωνιστική, με μέτριες προοπτικές αγοράς εργασίας. Χρειάζεται σκληρή δουλειά για να φτάσεις στην κορυφή και να κρατηθείς εκεί. Αλλά πόσα είναι, αλήθεια, τα επαγγέλματα όπου έρχεσαι το πρωί στο γραφείο, ανοίγεις την οθόνη του υπολογιστή και βρίσκεσαι δισεκατομμύρια έτη φωτός μακριά από τη Γη, προσπαθώντας να εξηγήσεις γιατί ο κόσμος, οι γαλαξίες, τα αστέρια είναι έτσι όπως τα βλέπουμε σήμερα; Για μένα η Αστροφυσική συνεχίζει να ασκεί πάντα την ίδια γοητεία: ο ουρανός τη νύχτα από τη Χιλή είναι μαγευτικός και αισθάνομαι δέος κοιτάζοντάς τον. Το να μπορεί κανείς να ακολουθήσει ως επάγγελμα ένα όνειρο είναι σημαντικό, αλλά το να εμπνέει κανείς νέους ανθρώπους να ασχοληθούν με την Αστρονομία δίνει ικανοποίηση και αναγνώριση.

ΒΙΚΥ ΚΑΛΟΓΕΡΑ
"Ο φόβος και το τρακ είναι μέρος του παιχνιδιού"

Αποφάσισα να ακολουθήσω μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές στις ΗΠΑ για δύο βασικούς λόγους: πρώτον, επειδή τα διδακτορικά των ΗΠΑ έχουν σημαντική αναγνώριση από τη διεθνή επιστημονική κοινότητα και δεύτερον, επειδή εκεί υπήρχε οικονομική στήριξη επαρκής για μια αξιοπρεπή διαβίωση. Εκείνη την εποχή η δυνατότητα αυτή δεν υπήρχε στην Ευρώπη και φοβάμαι ότι δεν υπάρχει ακόμη και σήμερα στην Ελλάδα.
Είχα την ευκαιρία να ασχοληθώ με την έρευνα ακόμη ως προπτυχιακή φοιτήτρια, χάρη στον τότε καθηγητή μου στο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης. Με τη βοήθειά του παρακολούθησα διεθνή συνέδρια και, χάρη σε μια υποτροφία Εράσμους, εργάστηκα κοντά σε μια πολύ καλή ερευνητική ομάδα στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Αμστερνταμ.
Σε όσους παίρνουν τώρα το πτυχίο τους και σκέπτονται να συνεχίσουν για μεταπτυχιακές σπουδές συνιστώ σκληρή δουλειά, επιμονή και αγάπη για ό,τι κάνουν.
Αν τα έχετε όλα αυτά, είστε τυχεροί και θα πάτε καλά. Να είστε δυναμικοί, επειδή κανείς δεν πρόκειται να φροντίσει για την καριέρα σας περισσότερο από τον εαυτό σας. Να έχετε τα μάτια σας ανοιχτά για ευκαιρίες και όταν συναντήσετε μία αρπάξτε τη, μη διστάζετε. Στην αρχή ίσως τα βρείτε μπαστούνια αλλά, αν επιμείνετε, σίγουρα θα φτάσετε στον στόχο σας.
Τέλος, να θυμάστε ότι οι αμφιβολίες για τον εαυτό σας, ο φόβος και το "τρακ" είναι μέρος του παιχνιδιού. Ολοι μας περάσαμε από αυτά τα στάδια.
Μην αφήσετε αυτές τις φυσικές αντιδράσεις να σας καταβάλλουν.
Αντίθετα, χρησιμοποιήστε τις σαν κίνητρο για να καταφέρετε περισσότερα από όσα νομίζετε ότι μπορείτε.

ΒΑΣΩ ΠΑΥΛΙΔΟΥ
"Υπάρχουν εξαιρετικές ερευνητικές ευκαιρίες και στη χώρα μας"

Την απόφαση για σπουδές στο εξωτερικό, και συγκεκριμένα στην Αμερική, την πήρα γιατί έψαχνα για ένα πανεπιστήμιο όχι μόνο με καλή φήμη στην έρευνα, αλλά και με οργανωμένο μεταπτυχιακό πρόγραμμα σπουδών, που θα μου έδινε τόσο τον χρόνο όσο και την ευκαιρία να παρακολουθήσω μεταπτυχιακά μαθήματα με μεγάλο εύρος θεμάτων. Σήμερα ωστόσο τα πράγματα έχουν αλλάξει αρκετά, και αντίστοιχες ευκαιρίες οργανωμένων μεταπτυχιακών σπουδών με πολλά μαθήματα υπάρχουν και στην Ευρώπη, συμπεριλαμβανομένης και της Ελλάδας, οπότε δεν είναι προφανές ότι αν έπρεπε να αποφασίσω σήμερα θα έπαιρνα την ίδια απόφαση.
Η μεγαλύτερη δυσκολία που συνάντησα ήταν η ανάγκη, εξαιτίας της μακροχρόνιας απουσίας μου από την Ελλάδα (13 χρόνια), να διαχειριστώ δυσάρεστες και δύσκολες οικογενειακές καταστάσεις είτε από απόσταση, είτε με συχνά υπερατλαντικά ταξίδια. Πάντως σίγουρα δεν είχα τη δυνατότητα να προσφέρω στην οικογένειά μου όσο θα ήθελα. Δεν έχω μετανιώσει για καμία από τις επαγγελματικές μου επιλογές, αλλά η απόσταση έρχεται με τίμημα, και μερικές φορές το τίμημα είναι βαρύ.
Σε όσους παίρνουν τώρα το πτυχίο τους συνιστώ να αψηφήσουν κάθε δυσκολία, εφόσον αγαπούν αυτό που κάνουν, εφόσον έχουν πάθος για το αντικείμενό τους. Να μη φοβηθούν να ταξιδέψουν: η εργασία σε πολλά ερευνητικά κέντρα ήταν για μένα πολύτιμη εμπειρία και συνεισέφερε πολύ στη διεύρυνση των ερευνητικών μου γνώσεων και οριζόντων. Ταυτόχρονα, να κρατούν πάντοτε την Ελλάδα μέσα στις ερευνητικές τους προοπτικές, καθώς υπάρχουν εξαιρετικές ερευνητικές ευκαιρίες και στη χώρα μας, ως μέλους του γενικότερου ευρωπαϊκού ερευνητικού χώρου.

Του Χάρη Βαρβόγλη από το Βήμα της Κυριακής
http://www.msfc.nasa.gov/news/NSSTC/news/releases/2003/N03-001.html

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Τίνα Νάντσου

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Ελληνίδες που έφτασαν στα... άστρα

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Επτά ελληνίδες επιστήμονες μιλούν για τη διαδρομή τους και συμβουλεύουν τους νέους που αρχίζουν τη ζωή τους κοιτάζοντας... ψηλά. Με τον ερχομό του 2012 η ελληνική αστρονομική κοινότητα είχε την ικανοποίηση να δει δύο διακεκριμένες συναδέλφους να βραβεύονται από την Αμερικανική Αστρονομική Εταιρεία (American Astronomical Society, AAS).

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So far I didn't know any astrobiologist,but sometimes I read articles from science magazines

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I have no knowledge about someone in the field of Astrobiology in my country. May some amateur or groups to dadicate to this issue in the Planetario de Bogotá. One can take the pupils on to this place for attending to some lectures about Life out of our planet.

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In our school we like science very much. As we are quit near Lisbon, our main town we often invite students and teachers from lisbon´s university to  come to our classroom to help us to find science. In Portugal we have at least 2 astrobiologist. Zita Martins and Joana Lima. As they work abroad we can ask them to meet us by video conference.

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It is a very interesting job and my primary school students were fascinated about it when I explained them.

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In my research I found Athena Coustenis, who is is an Astrophysicist at Paris-Meudon Observatory with a specialty in space exploration working, and studying the outer solar system, the giant planets, their satellites and the exoplanets. She was  heavily involved in the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn and Titan. Her passion for Astrobiology, led her to write a book on the subject in 2013. It would be a nice idea to make a research about her in my class.

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My research to find an astrobiologist from my country-RADU POPA, working at Portland University, found the possibility of life on Mars, more precisely in the ice in the volcanic lava galleries ....WE can only dreaming to meet him...

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Here is what I found about Greece (it's in

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Φυσική για όλους

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Τι μπορεί να συνδέει τους κβαντικούς υπολογιστές με τα νανοσωματίδια για βιοϊατρική και τον έλεγχο των σεισμών με την κατανόηση των κανόνων στο διεθνές εθιμικό δίκαιο; Αποτελούν ερευνητικά πεδία πάνω στα οποία θα εργαστούν πέντε νέοι Ελληνες ερευνητές που επιλέχθηκαν και επιχορηγήθηκαν από το ιδιαίτερα απαιτητικό Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο Έρευνας. Το Συμβούλιο παρέχει σε κάθε πρόγραμμα, πενταετούς διάρκειας, υψηλή επιχορήγηση ύψους 1,5 εκατ. ευρώ, δίνοντας έτσι στους πολλά υποσχόμενους νέους ερευνητές τη δυνατότητα να δημιουργήσουν τη δική τους ερευνητική ομάδα. Αποκαλυπτικό των μεγάλων δυσχερειών του ερευνητικού έργου στην Ελλάδα αποτελεί το γεγονός πως και οι πέντε ερευνητές, με τους οποίους μιλήσαμε, εργάζονται και διαπρέπουν σε μεγάλα ιδρύματα της Ευρώπης και κανένας στην Ελλάδα, αν και μίλησαν με τα καλύτερα λόγια για τις εγχώριες σπουδές.

Τι μπορεί να συνδέει τους κβαντικούς υπολογιστές με τα νανοσωματίδια για βιοϊατρική και τον έλεγχο των σεισμών με την κατανόηση των κανόνων στο διεθνές εθιμικό δίκαιο; Αποτελούν ερευνητικά πεδία πάνω στα οποία θα εργαστούν πέντε νέοι Έλληνες ερευνητές που επιλέχθηκαν και επιχορηγήθηκαν από το ιδιαίτερα απαιτητικό Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο Έρευνας. Το Συμβούλιο παρέχει σε κάθε πρόγραμμα, πενταετούς διάρκειας, υψηλή επιχορήγηση ύψους 1,5 εκατ. ευρώ, δίνοντας έτσι στους πολλά υποσχόμενους νέους ερευνητές τη δυνατότητα να δημιουργήσουν τη δική τους ερευνητική ομάδα. Αποκαλυπτικό των μεγάλων δυσχερειών του ερευνητικού έργου στην Ελλάδα αποτελεί το γεγονός πως και οι πέντε ερευνητές, με τους οποίους μιλήσαμε, εργάζονται και διαπρέπουν σε μεγάλα ιδρύματα της Ευρώπης και κανένας στην Ελλάδα, αν και μίλησαν με τα καλύτερα λόγια για τις εγχώριες σπουδές.

Από αριστερά προς τα δεξιά: Κωνσταντίνος Δημητριάδης, Ελένη Διαμαντή, Ιωάννης Στεφάνου, Παναγιώτης Μερκούρης και Γεώργιος Σωτηρίου.

Ο Γεώργιος Σωτηρίου εργάζεται στο Ινστιτούτο Καρολίνσκα στη Σουηδία και η ερευνητική πρότασή του αφορά την αξιοποίηση της νανοτεχνολογίας σε βιοϊατρικές εφαρμογές. Η επιδίωξη είναι να διαμορφωθούν νανοσωματίδια με αντιμικροβιακές ιδιότητες, έτσι ώστε να αντιμετωπίζονται οι μολύνσεις, που αποτελούν πολύ μεγάλο πρόβλημα ειδικά στα νοσοκομεία. "Για παράδειγμα, με τη δημιουργία πολυμερικών φιλμ που θα εφαρμόζονται πάνω στο δέρμα, χωρίς όμως να προκαλούν μολύνσεις. Ή για τη δημιουργία εμφυτευμάτων τιτανίου με έξυπνες ιδιότητες, που θα ενσωματώνονται στο οστό χωρίς πρόκληση μολύνσεων", μας λέει ο κ. Σωτηρίου, που είναι απόφοιτος της Σχολής Εφαρμοσμένων Μαθηματικών και Φυσικών Επιστημών του ΕΜΠ και συνέχισε με σπουδές στο Πολυτεχνείο της Ζυρίχης και στο Χάρβαρντ στη Βοστώνη.

Η Ελένη Διαμαντή εργάζεται στη Γαλλία, στο Εθνικό Κέντρο για την Επιστημονική Ερευνα (CNRS). Το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα που θα αναπτύξει αφορά την κβαντική κρυπτογραφία στις τηλεπικοινωνίες και στο Ιντερνετ. "Στόχος είναι να αποδείξουμε πώς μπορεί να γίνει επικοινωνία με κρυπτογραφημένα μηνύματα μέσω κβαντομηχανικής και να είναι πιο αποδοτική. Βεβαίως, κάτι τέτοιο θα απαιτήσει αλλαγή όλης της υποδομής, κβαντικούς υπολογιστές, οι οποίοι θα στηρίζονται σε οπτικά συστήματα", μας λέει. Η κ. Διαμαντή έχει αποφοιτήσει από τη Σχολή Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών του ΕΜΠ, συνέχισε στο Πανεπιστήμιο Στάνφορντ για μάστερ και διδακτορικό, μέχρι να προσληφθεί στο CNRS.

Ο Γιάννης Στεφάνου βρίσκεται στην Εθνική Σχολή Γεφυρών και Δρόμων της Γαλλίας, μιας από τις τρεις μεγάλες σχολές. Η πρότασή του αφορά το πώς θα μπορούσαμε να ελέγξουμε και να σταματήσουμε τους σεισμούς. "Διοχετεύοντας νερό με μεγάλη πίεση σε κάποιο σεισμικό ρήγμα, θα μπορούσαμε να προκαλέσουμε μικρότερες σεισμικές δονήσεις που θα εκτονώνουν πιο ήπια την τεράστια σεισμική ενέργεια. Το κόστος επέμβασης θα είναι μικρότερο από τις ζημιές", σημειώνει. Ο κ. Στεφάνου είναι απόφοιτος της Σχολής Πολιτικών Μηχανικών του ΕΜΠ.

Ο Παναγιώτης (Πάνος) Μερκούρης εργάζεται στο Πανεπιστήμιο του Χρόνινγκεν στην Ολλανδία και η δική του πρόταση αφορά τους κανόνες ερμηνείας του διεθνούς εθιμικού δικαίου. "Οι κανόνες ερμηνείας στους νόμους που ορίζονται από διεθνείς συνθήκες βασίζονται σε συγκεκριμένα κείμενα και γι' αυτό είναι κατανοητό πώς προκύπτουν. Τι γίνεται όμως όταν το δίκαιο είναι άγραφο και προκύπτει για παράδειγμα μέσα από την πρακτική κρατών; Πώς αποφασίζει ένα διεθνές δικαστήριο;", μας λέει. Ο κ. Μερκούρης είναι απόφοιτος της Νομικής Αθηνών, έκανε μεταπτυχιακό στο δημόσιο διεθνές δίκαιο στην Αθήνα και συνέχισε τις σπουδές του στο Λονδίνο, με διδακτορικό στο Queen Mary.

Ο Κωνσταντίνος Δημητριάδης εργάζεται στο ερευνητικό κέντρο Max Planck, στην Κολωνία. Το ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα με το οποίο θα ασχοληθεί αφορά την κατανόηση των μοριακών μηχανισμών, με τους οποίους τα κύτταρά μας αντιλαμβάνονται την παρουσία ή την απουσία θρεπτικών μηχανισμών. "Σήμερα συναντάμε απορρυθμισμένα κύτταρα, χωρίς συντονισμό με το περιβάλλον, που προσπαθούν να αναπτυχθούν ακόμα και όταν δεν υπάρχουν όροι, όπως για παράδειγμα τα καρκινικά κύτταρα", μας λέει. Ο κ. Δημητριάδης τελείωσε το Βιολογικό Θεσσαλονίκης και εκπόνησε διδακτορικό στην Αθήνα, στο Ιδρυμα Αλέξανδρος Φλέμινγκ.

Καλές βάσεις

Ποια είναι η γνώμη τους για τις σπουδές στην Ελλάδα; Ολοι θεωρούν πως έλαβαν πολύ καλές βάσεις από τις προπτυχιακές σχολές τους ή από τα πρώτα βήματα μεταπτυχιακών. Κι αυτό εξηγεί το γιατί πολλοί Ελληνες διαπρέπουν στο εξωτερικό.

"Συναντάμε πολλούς Ελληνες στα διεθνή επιστημονικά συνέδρια να παρουσιάζουν πολύ καλές εργασίες και να δημιουργούν. Αισθανόμαστε μεγάλη περηφάνια, οι φίλοι από άλλες χώρες μάς λένε αστειευόμενοι "ελληνική μαφία", επειδή τα καταφέρνουμε", μας λέει ο κ. Μερκούρης.

Γιατί διάλεξαν τον δρόμο του εξωτερικού; Δεν μπορούσαν να εργαστούν ερευνητικά στην Ελλάδα; "Είναι πολύ δύσκολο, γιατί είναι πολύ χαμηλή η χρηματοδότηση. Παρ' όλα αυτά γίνεται έρευνα, οι ερευνητές το παλεύουν πολύ", λέει η κ. Διαμαντή. "Το 2012 όλα ήταν σκούρα. Αισθανόμουν πως δεν υπήρχε προοπτική", λέει ο κ. Δημητριάδης. "Ηθελα να ταξιδέψω, να δω τον κόσμο της έρευνας και άλλες επιστημονικές σχολές", μας λέει ο κ. Στεφάνου.

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Πέντε νέοι Έλληνες ερευνητές διαπρέπουν στο εξωτερικό

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Τι μπορεί να συνδέει τους κβαντικούς υπολογιστές με τα νανοσωματίδια για βιοϊατρική και τον έλεγχο των σεισμών με την κατανόηση των κανόνων στο διεθνές εθιμικό δίκαιο; Αποτελούν ερευνητικά πεδία πάνω στα οποία θα εργαστούν πέντε νέοι Ελληνες ερευνητές που επιλέχθηκαν και επιχορηγήθηκαν από το ιδιαίτερα απαιτητικό Ευρωπαϊκό Συμβούλιο Έρευνας.

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My students working in astrobiology. :) http://saganet.org/group/mentorship_forum

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Conducting a e-conference with female astrobiologist Dr. Betul Kacar, working at NASA, to raise awareness of female students. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/betul-kacar-on-paleogenomics/

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We use Boinc project aplication for our eTwinning project https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
This is about Grid compiting system.
We helping  calculation date for SETI project
SETI :https://setiathome.berkeley.edu/

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Very interesting, haven't done a huge amount of research so need to do more but was unnable to find any names of irish astrobiologists. Hopefully can be proved wrong with more research!

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Luminita Moise, Romania

A group of scientists from Portland University led by romanian microbiologist and astrobiologist Radu Popa,  found the possibility of life on Mars, more precisely in the ice in the volcanic lava galleries.
His activity can be made known to students and in case of visits in  our country, we could contact him and find out more things.

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For many years kept under wraps, the Movile Cave, the discovery by accident of Romanian specialists that were surveying the area in 1986 for the location of a power plant near the Black Sea in Mangalia, came to be considered one of the greatest discoveries of the century that was to completely revolutionise the theories about the origin of life on Earth.

Screenshot (c): RICH BODEN / YOU TUBE

The epochal discovery of scientist Cristian Lascu was certified ten years later by NASA scientists, who brought to Mangalia a highly sophisticated mobile laboratory and a team of scholars who launched a research project in collaboration with Romanian counterparts. The Movile Cave near Mangalia was to amaze the whole scientific world with the discovery of life in a unique chemoautotrophic ecosystem totally isolated from the terrestrial atmosphere and perpetuated in an underground world hostile to humans, animals or plants on the outside. And this was because for the first time life was discovered in the most hidden corners of the earth the underground life did not depend on the outside world.

Larry Lemke of NASA, working on a research mission to probe for life on Mars, has likened the living conditions in the Movile Cave to Mars and put forth a supposition that life forms might have existed on the planet some 3.5 billion years ago, when Mars was warmer. The Movile Cave rekindled hope that some form of early life might be found in the underground of the Red Planet, where sources of hot liquid water exist.

The discovery of Movile Cave has also inspired American screenwriters, who used the place for the shooting of 'The Cave' (2005) directed by Bruce Hunt.

But at Movile, biologists of the National Institute of Speleology found a closed full circle, a stable ecosystem consisting of life forms and fungi that is totally isolated and independent from the outside, only 20 meters deep in the Earth, which works on chemosynthesis and which had been completely sealed off from the outside world for about 5.5 million years. This made one of the scientists who discovered and studied the flora and fauna there to conclude that, if a nuclear war wept out life on Earth, that ecosystem would be a survivor.

Scientific exploration of the Movile Cave, says Cristian Lascu began only in 1990, during which time the cave was isolated. 'As many as 35 entirely new species in all were found living in an environment very rich in hydrogen sulphide, with an atmosphere very poor in oxygen but rich in carbon dioxide and methane, somehow comparable to the volcanic pits on Mars, as NASA scientists subsequently pointed out,' says Lascu.

The bio-speleological and geological exploratory research works were conducted by Cristian Lascu, Stefan Radu Sarbu and Radu Popa, all members of the GESS group for underwater and speleological explorations. On the surface of the sulphurous water in the cave, the presence of a white, creamy substance, a few millimetres thick, was noticed, a nutritional organic substance found in various organisms, especially small snails and worms.

The scientific potential of the Movile Cave is not exhausted, Lascu tells Agerpres, as observations continue and exploring is done every year, but the integrity of the habitat is endangered every day, including by the 'searchers' of scrap metal that constantly threaten the huge metal door that closes off access to the surface. 'There is a constant danger that local authorities must take into account and that is just their job. That danger is the expansion of the urbanisation of Mangalia encroaching on the area where the cave is located, a place defined as a strictly protected scientific reserve. Well, all dwellings in the newly built district have to be connected to the sewerage system, because any clandestine septic tank can generate underground infiltrations that would reach the ground water in the special environment of the Movile Cave, which apparently keeps the secret of the origin of life. Human presence in this place seriously threatens the existence of the ecosystem as the simple respiratory process can cause irreversible imbalances by modifying the amount of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the cave. In order to protect the habitat and the ecosystem, work inside the cave is limited to two hours, while access is allowed twice a month at most for specialists and limited to a maximum of three people by raid. In addition, clean footwear and costumes have to be worn to avoid contamination,' says Lascu.

Romanian scientists say that there was no external evidence of an outside origin of the cave water and that the water most likely come from an underground reservoir that had apparently been preserved here for over 2,500 years. Two air pockets were identified in the cave. In the first, known invertebrate species were detected, while in the second a milky layer of organic materials was discovered. The air was unbreathable as it was poisoned by hydrogen sulphide and carbon dioxide , both noxious gases and the oxygen level was very low. The absence of sunlight leads to the elimination of the possibility to obtain food through photosynthesis and the life forms here have adapted themselves to the existing environmental conditions using chemical energy resulting from the oxidation of the hydrogen sulphide. Microorganisms use chemosynthesis (or chemosynthesis) to procure food. The process led to the formation of the milky film full of microorganisms, which has been food for other animals in the cave and the last link in the food chain. The underground living life forms are pale, and what differentiates them completely from their outside relatives is their total lack of vision and their gigantic antennas they use to move around in the dark. 'Subsequent expeditions have identified three more cavernous areas, somehow similar in morphology to the Movile Cave, fed by life-hosting sulphurous waters and thermal springs, in Italy - the Apennines Mountains, in Greece and the Sea of Galilee in Israel, where there are vibrant underground oases teeming with life forms akin to the fauna of the Movile Cave, but the Movile Cave has remained absolutely unique,' Lascu points out.

Geologically speaking, the cave is located in the Moesian Platform and dates back to the Quaternary. With a length of 300 metres and a total area of just 12,000 square meters, the cave is relatively small, with narrow passages that form a maze of low 1-2 m galleries, round in shape, carved in oolitic limestone. It is believed that the population of the cave became isolated 5.5 million years ago, when the level of the Black Sea plummeted, at a time when the closest ancestors of today's humans were monkeys in southern Africa. AGERPRES

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DESTINATION: ROMANIA / The Movile Cave (Constanta) - Mars on Earth - AGERPRES

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For many years kept under wraps, the Movile Cave, the discovery by accident of Romanian specialists that were surveying the area in 1986 for the location of a power plant near the Black Sea in Mangalia, came to be considered one of the greatest discoveries of the century that was to completely revolutionise the theories about the origin of life on Earth.

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In Italy there is an Astrobiology Association created by many scientists from different fields (Physics, Biologists, Physicians and Geneticists). Here the link
https://astrobiologia.weebly.com/

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astrophysics and planetologie are available in my country, as well as geology and meteoritc studies, but I dont find yet any astrobilogy studies.

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I found about the Romanian biologist Radu Popa, currently working in the USA and studying the possibility of discovering different life forms on Mars. The students could do research about his work and the way that he developed his theory.

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I see right now the interview with Zita Martins, ohhh she´s is portuguese astrobiologist and a good example to show in my class

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Cyprin Verseux is a french astrobiologist working in Hawaï. I works with a team to recreate Mars conditions. We could imagine having video-conference with him to talk about his job.

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Well, always learning, now about Zita Martins, a fellow Portuguese. So proud.

In a quick search, all the info I could get is absolutely outdated – the most recent entry dates back to 2009 and Zita Martins isn’t even mentioned!!!

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I studied Astrobiology at university and made the thesis for my MPS in this field, under supervision of professoress Daniela Billi. I choosen the scientific explainer's carreer and I will ask her if she could speak about her activities and recent work in astrobiology.

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I never dealt with astrobiology however I find it exciting. I saw that Padua University, relatively close to my school, has many researcher involved with the topic, e.g.  prof. Giuseppe Galletta

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ESERO Romania organizes astrobiology and

space sciences courses for teacher.

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Looking for information about Romanian astrobiologists, we discovered that a group of scientists led by microbiologist and astrobiologist Radu Popa (Romania) from Portland University found the possibility of life on Mars, more precisely in the ice in the volcanic lava galleries !

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Is  my duty to inform my students  of this events and theses carers of science.

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ESERO Romania organizes astrobiology and space technology initiation courses for teachers, first of all

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We can announce this event to our students soon:

Middle East Technical University (METU) will organize the first Astrobiology Conference in Turkey this year with the Biology and Genetics Society, which has been hosted by the Middle East Technical University (METU), together with the students of Physics department since 1986 and Turkey's most established Amateur Astronomy Society.

Turkey's first astrobiology conference starts
The first astrobiology conference organized by these two important communities in METU will be held on November 18, 2017 at Middle East Technical University.

Such scientific activities are carried out in the community room which is located in the building of physics department depending on the METU Cultural Affairs Directorate.

Members of such a community are astronomy enthusiasts, especially METU students and academicians.

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Here in Colombia, there are groups that are dedicated to astrobilogy, groups, even great academics, even better, there are congresses to address these issues. I would use them in my talks to address questions about the origin of life on Earth and the possibility of existence of life in other worlds than ours.

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Astromony is a fun subject. But Astrobiology is a concept that we have always overlooked. The videos aroused interest.

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Astromony is a fun subject. But Astrobiology is a concept that we have always overlooked. The videos aroused interest.

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Congress held in my country. European Planetary Science Congress 2017

17–22 September 2017

Radisson Blu Hotel Latvija | Riga | Latvia
https://www.epsc2017.eu/

Was there an astrobiologist?

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About 16 years ago I participated with my pupils in the astrobiology project "Is life in the universe?" organized by the astronomical observatory of Padova.

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I have a friend who does the astrologer who deals with research and study of life in the universe from its origins in search of life in space and planetary bodies. He participates in one of the international projects and collaborates with the major research institutes in the field. he likes to do this job, he likes me too.

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In my country - in Madrid - is the CAB (center dependent on NASA) and do important research. One of the instruments of the Curiosity - sent to Mars - was designed by the Spanish researchers of the CAB. One of the fields of study is the study in the hard conditions of Riotinto and I teach my students that, humbly, we look for microscopic life and not green little men.

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Environment for the life.
There are many young people interested to these arguments. We, as teachers, have to show, to everyone, the value of the respect of the environment.

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Silvia Cau= Degree and Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Cagliari, is a researcher in the Astrochemistry and Astrobiology group at the INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari.
It deals with interstellar powder, molecular excitation and interstellar chemistry models.
He is currently part of the Sardinia Radio Telescope Operations Team (SRT), and was part of the SRT Scientific Validation Team during 2013-2016. He is author of scientific articles on peer reviewed international journals.

Since April 2011 he has been responsible for the INA-Astronomical Observatory of Cagliari and on the outreach activities of SRT. He is responsible for the development of didactic activities for schools of every rank and grade, coordinates the management of the dissemination events, coordinates and manages public outfitting (Planetarium, Museum, Auditorium, Classroom) of the new INAF-OAC headquarters.
Since 2015 he has been formally responsible for the SRT Macro WP Outreach, for which he coordinates activity with the public, managing communication to the territory, and setting up public spaces (Visitor Center).
From May 2016 he is a member of the Education and Divulgation Working Group of the INAF Communication Office, chairmanship, under the responsibility of Dr. Stefano Sandrelli. He deals with new forms of didactics, with particular regard to new technologies and inclusive education.

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National Institute of Astrophysics Rome: Maria Teresa  Capria Cristina De SanctisFabrizio CapaccioniFederico TosiE. AmmannitoErnesto Palomba

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National Institute of Astrophysics Rome: Maria Teresa  Capria Cristina De SanctisFabrizio CapaccioniFederico TosiE. AmmannitoErnesto Palomba