Betül studies the foundations of life on Earth to understand the potential for life in space. Betül is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the NASA MUSE consortium, a NASA RCN, and her own molecular paleobiology research lab. Her team’s work has appeared on NOVA, BBC, CNN, PBS, Wired and more.
Deputy PI / Co-I
President’s Professor, Arizona State University
Expertise: Geochemistry/Earth evolution
Co-I
Assistant Professor, Stanford University
Expertise: Deep-sea microbiology and biogeochemistry
Co-I
Department Head and Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University
Expertise: Nitrogen fixation
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota
Expertise: natural mineral-fluid interactions
Postdoctoral Fellow, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
Expertise: Isotope and trace metal geochemistry
Dr. Roger Buick
Professor, University of Washington
Dr. Alison Butler
Professor, UC Santa Barbara
Dr. Colleen Cavanaugh
Professor, Harvard University
Dr. Andy Knoll
Professor, Harvard University
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