Dr Annemieke Petrignani. Image: HIMS.
Dr Annemieke Petrignani. Image: HIMS. Astrochemist and MacGillavry Fellow Dr Annemieke Petrignani of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences has been awarded funding of ¤ 280,000 through the Planetary and Exoplanetary Science programme (PEPSci) of NWO. The focus of this research, carried out in cooperation with Dr Helen King from Utrecht University, will be on polymerization processes as a selection mechanism between potential terrestrial and extra-terrestrial building blocks of life. Organic molecules have been detected on rocky bodies, meteorites, and in the interstellar medium. Among them amino acids, important molecular building blocks of life on earth. Just like amino acids, earth-like rocky planets are also abundant.
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