News

January 15, 2021
I am really excited to annouce that we have a new grad student, Emiliano Rivarola, that will be working on microbial carbonates in the Strobel Lake in Santa Cruz

December 16, 2020
I am happy to know that I have been included in the working group of Planetary Environments and Habitability, in the European Astrobiology Institute

December 16, 2020
Together with Mateo Martini, we became part of the Europlanet RI-TA-PFA (Transational Access for Planetary Field Analogues). We will collaborate with researchers from EU in Astrobiology focused research in terrestrial planetary analogues

18 August, 2020
Together with Dr. Cecilia Mlewski, we just submitted a PhD project for a new future grad student (Emiliano Rivarola) to work on the sedimentology and geochemistry of Strobel lake, in Patagonia. Strobel lake is a basalt-hosted freshwater lake that we consider is a good Earth-based analogue environment for the Jezero crater lacustrine sedimentary deposits on Mars, where the Perseverance rover recently launched by NASA is going to land. Our plan is to study microbe-mineral interactions and biosignatures preservation in the Strobel Lake sedimentary deposits that may provide some insight to better understand Jezero crater sedimentary record.