Astrobiology

Editor-in-Chief

Sherry L. Cady, PhD
Portland State University
Department of Geology
Center for Life in Extreme Environments
Portland, OR, USA
astrobiologyeditors@gmail.com
 

Managing Editor
 

Lawrence P. Cady
Journal Editorial Office
Sequim, WA, USA
 

Deputy Editor
 

Christopher P. McKay, PhD
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA
 

Asian Editor
 

Kenichiro Sugitani, DSc
Nagoya University
Nagoya, Japan
 

Australian Editor
 

Martin J. Van Kranendonk, PhD
University of New South Wales
Kensington, Australia
 

Senior Editors 
 

Penelope J. Boston, PhD
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA

Kathleen A. Campbell, PhD  
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
 

Charles Cockell, PhD
School of Physics and Astronomy
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
 

Don A. Cowan, BSc, MSc, PhD
Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics
University of Pretoria
Pretoria, South Africa

Lewis R. Dartnell, PhD —  Review Articles
The Centre For Planetary Sciences at UCL/Birkbeck Earth Sciences
London, United Kingdom
 

Timothy W. Lyons, PhD
Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of California
Riverside, CA, USA
 

Jack F. Mustard, PhD
Brown University
Providence, RI, USA
 

Victor Parro, PhD
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
Madrid, Spain
 

Radu Popa, PhD
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Margaret S. Race, PhD — Astrobiology in the Real World
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA, USA

Petra Rettberg, PhD
DLR German Aerospace Center
Cologne, Germany

 

John D. Rummel, PhD
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA, USA
 

Nita Sahai, PhD
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio, USA

Daniella Scalice, PhD — Education Articles
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC, USA
 

Mitch Schulte, PhD
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC, USA


Dirk Schulze-Makuch, PhD
Technical University of Berlin
Berlin, Germany


Sara Seager, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA

Russell Shapiro, PhD — Book Editor
California State University
Chico, CA, USA

Norman Sleep, PhD — Hypothesis Articles
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, USA
 

Michael C. Storrie-Lombardi, MD
Kinohi Institute, Inc. 
Santa Barbara, CA, USA
 

Jorge L. Vago, PhD
ESA/ESTEC
Noordwijk, Netherlands

Frances Westall, PhD
Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire
CNRS, Orléans, France
 

Editorial Board

Abigail Allwood, PhD
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, USA
 

Luther Beegle, PhD
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, USA


Steven A. Benner, PhD
Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution
Alachua, FL, USA
 

Daniella Billi, PhD
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Rome, Italy
 

Nathalie A. Cabrol, PhD
SETI Institute Carl Sagan Center
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA

Barbara Cavalazzi, PhD
Università di Bologna
Bologna, Italy


Elias Chatzitheodoridis, PhD
National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece
 

Christopher Chyba, PhD
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ, USA


Catharine A. Conley, PhD
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA

Huan Cui, PhD
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (IPGP)
University of Paris
Paris, France

Pascale Ehrenfreund, PhD
DLR German Aerospace Center
    Cologne, Germany
George Washington University
   Washington, DC, USA
 

Alberto G. Fairén, PhD
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA)
   Madrid, Spain
Cornell University
   Ithaca, NY, USA
 

Franco Ferrari, PhD
CASA*, University of Szczecin
Szczecin, Poland
 

Douglas Galante, PhD
Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS)
Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
 

Christos D. Georgiou, PhD
University of Patras
Patras, Greece

Rainer E. Glaser, PhD
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO, USA

Nader Haghighipour, PhD
University of Hawaii-Manoa
Honolulu, HI, USA

Ruth Hemmersbach, PhD
DLR German Aerospace Center
Cologne, Germany

Nancy W. Hinman, PhD
University of Montana
Missoula, MT, USA
 

Nils G. Holm, PhD
Stockholm University
Stockholm, Sweden

Reggie Hudson, PhD
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, MD, USA


Fumio Inagaki, PhD
JAMSTEC
Yokohama, Japan
 

James F. Kasting, PhD
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA, USA
 

Nancy Y. Kiang, PhD
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA
 

Isabelle Kingsley, PhD
University of New South Wales
Kensington, Australia

Gerhard Kminek, PhD
ESA/ESTEC
Noordwijk, Netherlands

Kensei Kobayashi, DSc
Yokohama National University
Yokohama, Japan
 

Doron Lancet, PhD
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, Israel

Yangting Lin, PhD
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China


Charles H. Lineweaver, PhD
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

Craig P. Marshall, PhD
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS, USA

Zita Martins, PhD
Instituto Superior Técnico
Lisbon, Portugal

Shigenori Maruyama, PhD
Tokyo Institute of Technology
Tokyo, Japan

Victoria S. Meadows, PhD
University of Washington
Seattle, WA, USA

Michael A. Meyer, PhD
NASA Headquarters
Washington, DC, USA

Ralf Moeller, PhD
DLR German Aerospace Center
Cologne, Germany

Gian Gabriele Ori, PhD
University G.d'Annunzio
Pescara, Italy

Carolyn Porco, PhD
University of California
Berkeley, CA, USA


Richard Quinn, PhD
SETI Institute Carl Sagan Center
Mountain View, CA, USA
 

Sean N. Raymond, PhD
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux
Bordeaux, France 
 

Antígona Segura, PhD
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mexico City, Mexico

Mark A. Sephton, PhD
Imperial College
London, United Kingdom
 

Seth Shostak, PhD
SETI Institute
Mountain View, CA, USA
 

Helga Stan-Lotter, PhD
Institute of Genetics and General Biology
Salzburg, Austria
 

Carol Stoker, PhD
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA
 

Roger E. Summons, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, USA


Inge L. ten Kate, PhD
Utrecht University
Utrecht, Netherlands

Feng Tian, PhD
Tsinghua University
Beijing, China

Hojatollah Vali, PhD
McGill University
Montreal, Canada 

Hikaru Yabuta, PhD
Hiroshima University
Hiroshima, Japan