The Australian Centre for Astrobiology was founded by Prof. Malcolm Walter in July 2001 at Macquarie University, and then moved to the University of New South Wales in 2008. It is the only centre of astrobiological research in Australia and is an Associate Member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute, one of only two in the world. The ACA also has close links with the European Space Agency and other international space agencies and institutions around the world.
The Australian Centre for Astrobiology
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27 February 2018: Two PhD projects on earliest life on Earth available at ACA
Two PhD projects are available to be filled at the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, under the supervision of ACA director Prof. Martin Van Kranendonk, and internationally recognised expert on the early Earth and on early life.
25 January 2018: ACA PhD student wins award for second time
ACA PhD student Yi-Ling Hwong has won an Outstanding Student Presentation Award for the social media paper she gave at the American Geophysical Union's Fall Meeting in New Orleans in December. It is the second year running that Yi-Ling has won this prestigious award given to only 5% of the total number of student presentations.
8 December 2017: Georgia studing early life in the Hamersley Ranges
ACA doctoral student Georgia Soares is studying fossilised microbial life in the Hamersley Ranges, and was the subject of a story on her PhD. See the story here.
7 December, 2017: Scientists discover air-eating bacteria
ACA member Professor Belinda Ferrari and her team have discovered bacteria in Antarctica living off trace gases in the atmosphere. This has implications for possible micobial life on other worlds in the solar system. See the story here.
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