Prof. Paolo Sossi - COPL member - gave his Inaugural Lecture "A cookbook for planets - from the lab to outer space" at ETH Zurich on 15 May 2023. See recording
Nobel laureate Didier Queloz - Director of the COPL - gave his Inaugural Lecture "The exoplanet revolution" at ETH Zurich on 2 May 2023. See recording
We are very pleased to announce the 2024 Cohort of the NOMIS-ETH Fellows. Between July and September three postdoctoral fellows will join the COPL thanks to the generous support that we receive from the NOMIS Foundation.
Physicists at ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich wanted to know whether the planned LIFE space mission could really detect traces of life on other planets. Yes, it can. The researchers reached this conclusion with the help of observations of our own planet.
How did the reactions that first produced life on Earth cope with scarce bio-essential elements before the evolution of enzymes? Cosmic dust may have fuelled prebiotic chemistry. Natural sedimentary processes could have concentrated cosmic dust into nutrient-rich deposits. Our study challenges the idea that cosmic dust wasn't a local fertilizer for early life.
Craig Walton is the first NOMIS Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich. With an unconventional idea, he wants to find out the conditions under which life originated on Earth.