Keynote Speaker
Dr. Eloi Camprubi-Casas
Assistant Professor of Astrobiochemistry
School of Integrative Biological and Chemical Sciences
Eloi Camprubi is an Assistant Professor at UTRGV’s SIBCS. His research interests lie within the broad research field of Astrobiology. He is particularly interested in understanding why and how life emerges in a previously barren planet. He also simulates extraterrestrial environments to refine the interpretation framework for detecting extraterrestrial life (biosignatures) within the Solar System, particularly in relation to the (bio)geochemistry at Ocean Worlds (e.g. Enceladus, Europa, Titan). He is from Barcelona (Spain) and, thanks to a ‘la Caixa’ Foundation doctoral fellowship, he earned his PhD in Chemistry from University College London (UK) in 2018. He was then awarded a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship to join the Origins Center (Utrecht University, Netherlands). In 2021 he obtained a 3-year Human Frontier Science Program fellowship to join the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan). In 2022 he joined UTRGV as an awardee of the University of Texas System’s STARs Program.