Life — Section Editors

Section Editor-in-Chief
1. Director, NASA Center for Computational Astrobiology and Fundamental Biology, NASA-Ames Research Center, Mail Stop 239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
2. Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Tel. 650-604-5759
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Interests: statistical mechanics of chemical and biological systems, molecular and cellular-scale computer simulations and modeling, astrobiology, origin of life, protein structure, function and folding, biological membranes, transport through membranes, evolutionary innovation

Program Director, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science & Technology, 2-15 Natsushima-cho, Yokosuka 237-0061, Japan
Fax: +81 46 867 9715
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Interests: geomicrobiology; biogeochemistry; astrobiology; extremophiles; limits of life and biosphere; habitability; exploration of boundary biosphere

Astrobiology Group, Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technical University Berlin, Germany
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Interests: planetary habitability; astrobiology; evolutionary biology; extreme environments; geobiology; space missions
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Life: Planetary Exploration: Habitats and Terrestrial Analogs
Special Issue in Life: Planetary Exploration of Habitable Environments

Laboratoire Inter-universitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA), UMR CNRS 7583, Université Paris Est Créteil et Paris Diderot, Institute Pierre Simon Laplace, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010, Créteil, France
Fax: +33 1 45 17 15 64
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Interests: prebiotic chemistry; extraterrestrial organic chemistry; astrobiology; exobiology; astrobiologically oriented space missions; Titan; Mars; comets

Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Tel. +1 808 956 6868; Fax: +1 808 956 9580
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Interests: comets; delivery of volatiles in the early solar system to habitable worlds; space missions

Instituto de Geociencias, IGEO (CSIC-UCM), C/ Del Doctor Severo Ochoa 7, Facultad de Medicina (Edificio Entrepabellones 7 y 8), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Tel. +34 91 3944829; Fax: +34 91 3944798
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Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Sustainability: Astrobiology and Sustainability
Special Issue in Challenges: Challenges in Astrobiology
Special Issue in Geosciences: Planetary Geosciences and Space Exploration
Special Issue in Challenges: Challenges in Astrobiology II
Special Issue in Minerals: Meteorites and Cosmic Mineralogy
Special Issue in Geosciences: Geosciences and Future Earth
Special Issue in Geosciences: Ethics and Geoethics in Geosciences
Special Issue in Geosciences: Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
Special Issue in Geosciences: Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Geosciences
Special Issue in Geosciences: Educating for Geoscience
Special Issue in Geosciences: Selected Papers from the 2th International Electronic Conference on Geosciences

Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
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Interests: biogeochemical cycles; astrobiology; geobiology; Earth history; isotope geochemistry; oceanic anoxia; evolution of the ocean and atmosphere and the co-evolution of life

Department of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University, SE-106 91, Stockholm, Sweden
Tel. +468164743; Fax: +46 8 674 7897
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Interests: geobiology; astrobiology; hydrothermal organic geochemistry; subsurface biosphere

1. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
2. DigitalSpace Research, Boulder Creek, CA 95006, USA
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Interests: origin of life; computational modeling; space science; theoretical biology
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Life: Origin of Cellular Life
Special Issue in Life: Themed Issue Commemorating Prof. David Deamer's 80th Birthday