Astrobiologist of the Month
February
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Every month we feature two astrobiologists from around the world. Our aim is for everyone to get to know each other, connect and network. If you would like to be featured, let us know here.
✉️ benjamin [dot] tutolo [at] ucalgary [dot] ca
🌎 Calgary, Canada
Opportunities
Undergraduate students
Masters students
PhD students
(for more information, click here)
BENJAMIN TUTOLO
“I'm a geochemist working to understand how interactions between rocks, water, and gases affect life on Earth and Mars.”
Position
Associate Professor of Geoscience at the University of Calgary
Career Pathway
BS in Environmental Systems Engineering and PhD in Geology
Research Topics
Aqueous Geochemistry, Hydrogeology, Mineralogy and Reactive Transport
Why did you decide to become an Astrobiologist?
Intellectual curiosity. To me, astrobiology embodies a group of exciting, fundamental science questions that can and should be answered using the conventional tools of geochemistry and hydrogeology
If your lab/research group had a nickname, what would it be?
The Reactive Transport Group (RTG)
Are you accepting students?
Undergraduate, Masters and PhD students (for more information, click here)