I'll be featured at the outreach event of the Science Café in Nijmegen 🇳🇱, talking about astrochemistry and the origins of life and its building blocks in space and on early Earth.
Stop by if you're in the area on Thu, Oct. 23, 7.45 PM. Admission is FREE, and there will be jazz! 🎶🎷🌌🔭☄🦠

I'm so excited to be on my way to #FALCON2025, our first jointly organized early-carrer conference of AbGradE and @oolen.bsky.social in Reykjavik 🇮🇸🌋! Can't wait to meet everyone and talk exciting science! 🤩

More info
oolen.org/news-and-events/in-person-meetings/falcon2025
and
abgrade.eu/falcon2025

[Re-posting Twitter, Apr 16, 2024]

We made it to the cover of ChemPlusChem!!!
Vitamins from outer space and the origins of life? Yes!
=> doi.org/10.1002/cplu...
Amazing what you can do yourself with #opensource @blender3d.bsky.social just following tutorials by youtube.com/@blenderguru (thanks!).

You can also go directly to the open-source chapter here: doi.org/10.5772/inte...

Silicate volcanos on the grounds of these extraterrestrial oceans might give rise to hydrothermal vents, a popular site for many theories around the origins of life. 🦠🌋🦠

[Re-posting Twitter; Feb 3, 2023]

It is nice to see something materialize in your own hands!
Volcanos 🌋 are awesome, right?
But how about volcanos on other planets and moons? Or even on exoplanets? 🪐🌋🌕
Hooked? Then read more about their potential to make alien worlds habitable (+👇🧵): bit.ly/cryovol

And the nucleobase abundances our model predicts (dashed lines) are agreeing with measurements in real meteorites (yellow bars)! Seems like the early solar system was packed with organics, which fell onto the early Earth, 🌍🌠 contributing to the primordial soup. 🥣
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[Re-posting from Twitter; Jan 23, 2023]

Do you know what the death of all dinosaurs 🦕 and the origins of life 🧬 might have in common? Carbonaceous chondrites, carbon-rich meteorites, 🌠 might have caused both. Skeptical? Hear me out 👇🧵 and read our freshly published paper doi.org/10.3847/1538...
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