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PROTOS researchers participate in Goldschmidt Conference 2025 with new insights into life’s earliest stages

At Goldschmidt 2025 in Prague, PROTOS researchers will showcase groundbreaking insights into the geochemical pathways and mineral catalysts that shaped…

8 months hace

Postdoctoral Fellow at DIPC – Mineral self-organization and Origin of Life

The Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) is currently accepting applications for a postdoctoral position to work in PROTOS project. This…

10 months hace

Postdoctoral Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Naturalis has a job opening for a postdoc to study Preservation of organic compounds in silica under early Earth conditions…

10 months hace

Silica and the spark of life: new research reveals how protocells formed on early earth

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) shows that protocells and prebiotic compounds…

1 year hace

Strengthening Collaboration: Highlights from the Second PROTOS On-Site Meeting in Granada

The second PROTOS on-site meeting, organized in Granada (Spain) from November 27th to 29th, 2024, by the Spanish National Research…

1 year hace

(CLOSED) Research Engineer Position (M/F): Design of flow Microreactors for the Study of Rock/Fluid Interactions Mimicking Primordial Earth Conditions

Laboratoire de Génie Chimique - CNRS - Toulouse INP - UPS Research Engineer Position (M/F): Design of flow Microreactors for…

1 year hace

(CLOSED) Postdoctoral Fellow at Naturalis Biodiversity Center

Naturalis Biodiversity Center Postdoctoral Fellow to study Pattern formation in hot spring silica sinters under early Earth conditions Naturalis offers…

1 year hace

On the role of silica in the origin of life and primitive life detection

J.M. García-Ruiz1,2, W. Bach3, H. Coelfen4, M. van Zuilen5, R. Saladino6. E. di Mauro6, C. Jenewein2, B. M. Bizzarri6 1Donostia…

1 year hace

The project

An artist’s vision of the Hadean era, the geochemical scenario of the origin of life that PROTOS will study /…

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Team Members

Prof. Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Principal Investigator Ikerbasque Research Professor at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC), his main fields of…

1 year hace