Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar

Life on Earth displays incredible diversity and occurs in nearly every extreme environment. The talk will show how this information will help us to search for life on other planets, even life as we do not know it. The emphasis will be placed on Mars, Jupiter´s moon Europa and Saturn´s moon Titan. Furthermore, in the talk I will highlight the major stages in the rise of microbial life to complex life on our planet and what this means for its presence on extraterrestrial planetary bodies. What are credible solutions to the Fermi Paradox and is intelligent alien life likely to be present in our cosmic neighborhood?