Fatton Mathilda, Dr.
Center for Space and Habitability, Phase 3 - Domain C - Project 8, Universität Bern
PostDoc
3012 Bern
+41 31 684 4736
Please give us a personal quote or a quote of a famous person (e.g. of Albert Einstein) that describes you and your life/work. | |
There is nothing permanent except change -Heraclitus | |
Please describe your job in only one sentence and tell us what the most important goal of this work is. | |
Use microorganisms as a benchmark to validate the use of spectropolarimetry in the detection of homochirality as a unique signature for life | |
How did you get into this research/work field? | |
After a PhD focusing on sporulation as a bacterial survival strategy, I wanted to continue working on the tremendous survival abitability of microorganisms and their high potential to colonise other planets than Earth | |
What would be the greatest discovery you would like to see in your life time? | |
Microorganisms active on other planets than Earth | |
You work for the NCCR PlanetS. What do you think will the NCCR enable you to do you couldn’t do without it? | |
Prove that microorganisms are key players on Earth but also beyond |
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