Network Members
To join the SWAN network and get your homepage linked on this page, you need to be an active researcher interested in astrobiology.
To apply, please contact any member of the executive committee.
Executive committee:
Alexis Brandeker (Stockholm University) (Chair)
Samuel Regandell (Uppsala University) (Secretary)
Natuschka Lee (Umeå University)
Paula Lindgren (University of Glasgow)
Jan-Erik Wahlund (IRF Uppsala)
Axel Brandenburg (Nordita & CU Boulder)
Members:
Carl Alwmark (Dept. of Geology, Lund University)
Interests: Impact cratering
Sanna Alwmark (Dept. of Geology, Lund University)
Interests: Impact cratering, shock metamorphism
Sandra Baldauf (Systematic Biology, Uppsala University)
Interests: Deep phylogeny of eukaryotes (the eukaryote tree of life), origin and evolution of mitochondria
Stefan Bengtsson (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Interests: Proterozoic and Cambrian palaeobiology; history of eukaryotes; deep biosphere
Alexis Brandeker (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
Interests: Planet formation environments, exoplanetsAxel Brandenburg (Nordita)
Interests: homochirality, astrophysics
Per Calissendorff (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
Interests: Extrasolar planets, SETI
Maria Cavallius (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
Interests: exoplanets, circumstellar disks
Patrick Crill (Dept. of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University)
Interests: Biogeochemistry
Melvyn B. Davies (Lund University)
Interests: Dynamical evolution of planetary systems, effect of Galactic environment on planetary habitability, exotica in stellar clusters
Dainis Dravins (Lund Observatory)
Interests: Exoplanets & their host stars
David Dunér (Lund University)
Interests: history and philosophy of astrobiology
Peter Ekström (Division of Nuclear Physics, Lund University)
Interests: Nuclear Structure
Pantea Fathi (Physics Department, Stockholm University)
Interests: Astrobiology Astrochemisty
Wolf Geppert (Physics, Stockholm University)
Interests: Astrochemistry, Molecular Astrophysics, Planet and satellite atmospheres
Åke Hjalmarson (Onsala Space Observatory)
Interests: Interstellar molecules and their possible importance for the origin of life
Nils Holm (Dept. of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University)
Interests: Geochemistry
Gustav Holmberg (University of Gothenburg)
Interests: History of astrobiology, specifically changing boundaries of scientific disciplines and formation of scientific fields, history of exoplanets.
Lisa C.Q. Holmström (Rymdgymnasiet)
Interests: Teaching astrobiology to younger students (highschool with outreach to lower grades)
Magnus Ivarsson (Dept. of Palaeobiology, Swed. Museum of Natural History)
Interests: The deep biosphere, fossilized microorganisms, life in impact craters, habitability of extraterrestrial planets
Markus Janson (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
Interests: Extrasolar planets
Daniel Jaraj (Sahlgrenska Akademien, Gothenburg University)
Interests: Space medicin
Anders Johansen (Lund University)
Interests: Planet formation, exoplanets
Andreas Johnsson (Dept. of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg)
Interests: Martian geomorphology and terrestrial analogues
Jonas Jonsson (NASA Ames Research Center)
Mats Larsson (Dept. of Physics, Stockholm University)
Natuschka Lee (Dept. of Ecology & Environmental Sci., Umeå University)
Interests: Microbial biodiversity, ecology and evolution, Microbiology of rocky environments (caves, meteorites, subsurface); Extremophilic organisms (prokaryotes, eukaryotes like tardigrades and lichens). Environmental biotechnology (transformation of various hazardous contaminants).
Paula Lindgren (University of Glasgow)
Interests: Mineralogy and geochemistry of meteorites and impactites
Michael Lindqvist (Onsala Space Observatory)
Interests: AGB stars
René Liseau (Earth & Space Sci., Onsala Space Obs., Chalmers Uni. of Tech.)
Interests: Nearest stars and planets, physics of the Interstellar Medium, observational star formation
Daniel Lundin (Inst. för biokemi och biofysik, Stockholms universitet)
Interests: tidig biokemi, särskilt nukleotidmetabolism
Javier Martín-Torres (Luleå Tekniska Universitet )
Interests: Mars exploration and research, planetary atmospheres, thermodynamics, disequilibrium and evolution
Alexander James Mustill (Lund Observatory)
Interests: Exoplanets, planetary dynamics
Anna Neubeck (Dept. of Geological Sciences, Stockholm University)
Interests: serpentinization, nickel isotopes, methanogenesis
Ricky Nilsson (Depts. of Astronomy, Stockholm University / California Institute of Technology)
Interests: Exo-Kupier belts, exoplanets
Lennart Nordh (Pensionär, ordf. KTH Space Center)
Birgitta Nordström (Niels Bohr Inst., Copenhagen University)
Interests: The First Stars, creation of elements fundamental for life (C, O etc), Evolution of the Galaxy
Albert Nummelin (occasionally teaching at University of Gothenburg)
Interests: Molecular astrophysics, outreach activities
Magnus Näslund (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
Göran Olofsson (Dept. of Astronomy, Stockholm University)
Interests: Stellar discs, exoplanets
Hans Olofsson (Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, Chalmers)
Interests: Evolved stars
Carina Persson (Chalmers University of Technology)
Interests: ISM and exoplanets
Samuel Regandell (Uppsala University)
Interests: Protoplanetary disks, planet formation
Oleg Shebanits (Swedish Inst. for Space Physics, Uppsala university)
Interests: Pre-biotic molecules in the ionosphere of Titan and early Earth
Sandra Siljeström (Dept. of Chemisty, Materials and Surfaces, SP)
Interests: Analysis organic molecules in astrobiologically relevant materials on Earth and in space.
Britt-Marie Sjöberg (Dept. of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm University)
Interests: Ribonucleotide reduction, catalytic RNA, origin of life
Maria Sundin (University of Gothenburg)
Vivi Vajda (Swedish Museum of Natural History)
Interests: Meteorite impacts and their effect on biota, impact processes, organic compounds in fossil plant matter, carbon isotope signals in the geological record.
Erik Vigren (Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala)
Interests: Ionospheres of planets, satellites and comets
Jan-Erik Wahlund (IRF, Uppsala)
Michael Way (NASA/Goddard Inst. for Space Studies & Dept. of Astronomy, Uppsala University)
Interests: Planetary Atmospheres, Exoplanets, Planet Formation
Eva Wirström (Chalmers)
Interests: Astrochemistry
Erik Zackrisson (Uppsala University)
Interests: SETI, habitability on cosmological scales