Lab News & Updates
Yeşilbaş Lab attended the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) in the Woodlands, TX!
Yesilbas Lab took the stage at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Woodlands, Texas.
YESILBAS LAB IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Our group’s research is featured in the Kemisk Tidskrift!
Our group leader Merve wrote an article in the latest published Kemisk Tidskrift Magazine to present ongoing research in the Yeşilbaş Lab and how our research is very strategic and correlated for the latest explorations from Mars.
Fully-funded 2 Postdoctoral fellowships are available in the Yeşilbaş Lab
Looking for the new Martians!! 🚀 Application deadline is March 1, 2024.
Yesilbas Lab attended the 36th Nordic Geological Winter Meeting (NGWM) in Gothenburg!
Yesilbas Lab took the stage in the Planetary Geosciences session, where our PI was one of the conveners of this session at the 36th NGWM in Gothenburg!
Our hardworking PhD student, Trung presented his poster at KBC Days’ 2023 in Umeå University.
Our hardworking PhD student, Trung presented a poster in the Chemical Biological Centre (KBC) Days’ Event that organized by Umeå University.
Public Outreach: Our group leader Merve was invited to give a Mars talk in the Kunskapveckan at Umeå University!
Our group leader Merve was invited to give a Mars talk at the Kunskapveckan in Umeå University on November 1.
Public Outreach: Yesilbas Lab in ForskarFredag Event at Curiosum Center
Yesilbas Lab took the stage in the ForskarFredag Event in Curiosum Center on September 29!
Public Outreach: Our group leader Merve was the special guest of the Astronomy Days and Nights Event in Curiosum
Our group leader Merve was the special guest of the Astronomy Days and Nights Event in Curiosum.
Our brilliant PhD student, Trung, was awarded with a travel grant from European Astrobiology Institute to give talk at EANA’2023 Conference in Madrid!
Our brilliant PhD student, Trung Nguyen received the European Astrobiology Institute travel grant to give oral presentation in EANA 2023 Conference.
Francisca Emel Tuzcuoglu successfully completed her internship!
Congratulations Emel!! Emel successfully completed her internship for lunar project!
Public Outreach: Our Kempe postdoc fellow, Lucas is in the stage for the Pint of Science Event in Umeå!
Our Kempe postdoc fellow, Lucas Demaret gave a public outreach talk in the Pint of Science Umeå event.
Congratulations to our Kempe postdoc Lucas for receiving Wallenberg and European Astrobiology Institute travel grants!
Our hardworking Kempe postdoc fellow, Lucas Demaret received the Wallenberg travel grant to attend the AbGradE and BEACON 2023 conferences organized by the European Astrobiology Institute.
Ann-Cathrin Krause succesfully completed her Master project!
Our dearest and brilliant MSc student, Ann-Cathrin, successfully completed her Master project. She studied complex sulphate-Cl salt mixture formation in Martian analogue Fe-rich nontronite clay minerals at Mars-like temperatures using Raman spectroscopy.
Setting up a new destination: European Science Foundation awarded the Yeşilbaş Lab for Moon research!
Europlanet2024-Research Infrastructure awarded our new Moon research collaboration!
NASA grant awarded for our Mars research collaboration!
PI Dr. Yesilbas will take place as co-I in this project. We will perform the cryogenic-IR measurements of the low hydrated Fe- and Mg-sulphates and collaborate with awesome teams in SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center and University of Vienna.
Public Outreach Activity in ForskarFredag at the Curiosum Centre
Have you ever wondered why the planets like Mars or a dwarf planet like Ceres has dark streaks and sometimes spheres on the surface? We have an answer: salts.
Mars talk at the 2022 Climate Impact Research Centre (CIRC) Symposium
PI Dr. Yesilbas was invited to give a talk in the Climate Impact -Research Centre (CIRC) Symposium 2022 that was held on Abisko.
An interview with our PI, Merve, has been published in Umeå University
PI Dr. Yesilbas gave an interview about her research and academic journey from Turkey to NASA.
Fully-funded Postdoctoral fellowship (2 years) is available in the Yeşilbaş Lab
Looking for the new Martians!! 🚀 Application deadline is September 30, 2022.
Fully-funded PhD student position is available in the Yeşilbaş Lab
Looking for the new Martians!! 🚀 Application deadline is September 23, 2022.