SCOL Team

Woodward Fischer holds a B.A. from Colorado College and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He is a Professor of Geobiology in Geological and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology.

Greg Fournier is currently an associate professor of geobiology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and holds joint appointments with both Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the interdepartmental MIT Microbiology Program.

Wilhelm Huck was initially trained as a physical organic chemist and received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Twente, Netherlands. After postdoctoral training with George Whitesides of Harvard University, he started his academic career in the Department of Chemistry at…

Joel Hurowitz is a geochemist and planetary scientist working on the exploration of Mars and the study of modern and ancient Mars analog environments on Earth. He is currently a assistant professor in the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University.

Gerald F. Joyce is a professor in the Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California. He also is institute director of the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation (GNF).

Krishnamurthy is a scientific collaborator with the Center for Chemical Evolution at the Georgia Institute of Technology and has been appointed as a co-lead of the Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments (PCE3) Consortium, one of the five Research Coordination Networks within…

Sheref Mansy is a professor of chemistry at the University of Alberta. He received a B.S. and Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, where he worked on the bioinorganic chemistry of metalloproteins.