Sasselov Lab & Group

Prebiotic photochemistry

Exploring the origins of life's building blocks with photochemical and photodynamic experiments.

Artist Impression Origins of Life Early Earth

Photochemistry

Photochemistry

Exoplanet Astronomy

Exoplanet Astronomy

Planetary Environments

Planetary Environments

Physics of Chiral Systems

Physics of Chiral Systems

Photo Acknowledgments:

Cover Photo/Scientific Illustration:  The Archean World / Peter Sawyer
Photochemistry: Data from Sasselov Lab by Corinna Kufner
Exoplanet Astronomy: An artist's representation of Kepler-11, a small, cool star around which six planets orbit. Credit: NASA/Tim Pyle
Protoplanetary disk:  Imaged by ALMA array telescope - Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF
Amino Acid Chirality chirality with hands: from http://www.nai.arc.nasa.gov/  - Wikimedia Commons