Invited Speakers

Pre-conference training school (December 9th-11th)

  • Carlos Briones, Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
  • Nader Haghighipour, University of Hawaii-Manoa, US
  • Antonio Lazcano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico
  • Alain Lecavellier des Etangs, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France
  • Hervé Martin, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • Masatoshi Ohishi, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, Tokyo, Japan
  • Daniele Pinti, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
  • Nikos Prantzos, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France

Conference (December 12th-16th) 

1) Formation and Evolution of Stars and Planets, Habitability

  • Nader Haghighipour, University of Hawaii-Manoa, US 
  • José Cernicharo, ICMM-CSIC Madrid, Spain 
  • Hervé Cottin, Université Paris-Est, France 
  • François Forget, Université Paris 6, France 
  • Jean Pierre Bibring, Institut d’Astrophysqiue Spatiale, Orsay,Paris 
  • Manuel Güdel, University of Vienna, Austria 
  • Thomas Henning, Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany 
  • Yoko Kebukawa, Yokohama National University, Japan
  • Sun Kwok, University of Hong Kong, China
  • Alain Lecavellier, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France 
  • Sean Raymond, CNRS-Université de Bordeaux, France 
  • Jorge Vago, ESA, The Netherlands
  • Hajime Yano, Japan

2) Early Earth Environment

  • Daniele Pinti, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
  • Axel Hofmann, University of Johannesburg, South Africa 
  • Takeshi Kakegawa, Tohoku University, Japan 
  • Yiliang Li, University of Hong Kong, China
  • Hervé Martin, Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France
  • Ramon Brasser, Earth Life Science Institute, Japan

3) Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Life on Earth

  • Satoshi Akanuma, Waseda University, Japan
  • Carlos Briones, Centro de Astrobiologia CSIC INTA, Spain 
  • Albert Fahrenbach, Earth-Life Science Institute, Japan
  • Antonio Lazcano, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico
  • Dougal Ritson, MRC LMB, UK

4) Life in Universe, societal impacts and ethical issues

  • Charley Linewaever, Australia
  • Jesùs Martinez-Frias, Geosciences Institute, Madrid, Spain
  • Nikos Prantzos, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, France