University of Aberdeen
| Current Position | Professor in Planetary Sciences |
| Previous Position | Professor in Atmospheric Sciences, LTU |
| Javier.martin-torres@abdn.ac.uk | |
| Departments | School of Geosciences |
| ECR | Yes |
| Quadrat Core Themes | Biodiversity, Earth Systems |
| Methods I Use | Environmental Chambers, Instrument Design, Modelling, Simulation Facility |
| Profiles |
ORCIDKey Research Interests
- Habitability
- Life and atmospheres
- Planetary exploration
- Water cycle on Mars
- Comparative planetology
Recent Key Papers
- Miracle Israel Nazarious, María-Paz Zorzano, Javier Martín-Torres, 2020, Metabolt: An In-Situ Instrument to Characterize the Metabolic Activity of Microbial Soil Ecosystems Using Electrochemical and Gaseous Signatures, DOI: 10.3390/s20164479
- Martín-Torres, J., María Paz Zorzano, Álvaro Soria-Salinas, Miracle Israel Nazarious, Samuel Konatham, Thasshwin Mathanlal, Abhilash Vakkada Ramachandran, Juan Antonio Ramirez-Luque, Roberto Mantas-Nakhai, 2020, The HABIT (HabitAbility: Brine Irradiation and Temperature) environmental instrument for the ExoMars 2020 Surface Platform, Planetary and Space Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2020.104968.
- Charles S Cockell, Tim Bush, Casey Bryce, Susana Direito, Mark Fox-Powell, Jesse Patrick Harrison, Helmut Lammer, Hanna Landenmark, Javier Martin-Torres, Natasha Nicholson, Lena Noack, Jack T. O’Malley-James, Samuel Payler, Andrew Rushby, Toby Samuels, Petra Schwendner, Jennifer Wadsworth, María-Paz Zorzano, Habitability: A Review, Astrobiology, Volume 16, Number 1,
Summary Title of Current Studentships
I am new to the University so I do not currently have any students but I would be interested in collaborating on these project topics:
- Microbiome impact on the atmosphere: carbon cycle, nitrogen fixation and volatiles like O2, CO2, H2O and CH4.
- Biodiversity in terrestrial Martian analogues
- QUADRAT DTP student, Jyothi Basapathi: Study the role of microbial networks on carbon cycling under controlled pressure and temperature conditions
