Lab News & Updates
Congratulations to our PI Merve for securing fundings for a New Dynamic Vapor Sorption Instrument!
Congratulations to our PI Merve for receiving fundings for Advanced DVS Instrument from the Kempe Foundation and Faculty of Science and Technology at Umea University!!
Exciting News! Our PI Merve’s New Publication on Ca-Sulfate Dehydration Pathways on Mars
New Mars paper Alert!! Our PI Merve’s paper on geochemical transformations of Ca-sulfate hydrates and their detections on Mars was published in the ACS Earth and Space Chemistry.
Congratulations to Trung on Receiving Very Prestigious LPI Career Development Award!
Trung shines with Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) Career Development Award from USA!
Big Congratulations to Frida for a wonderful Bachelor project!
Congratulations Frida for a wonderful Bachelor work on survivability of polyextremophiles under Mars-like conditions!
We are welcoming to our new Kempe Postdoctoral Fellow, Alef Dos Santos!
We are thrilled to welcome Alef Dos Santos into our team!
Congratulations to my fantastic PhD student, Trung for his best poster prize on KBC Days!
Your hard work and dedication are truly inspiring, Trung. Very well done!!
We are welcoming to our new Carl Trygger Postdoctoral Fellow, Surendra Vikram Singh!
We are very happy to welcoming Surendra Vikram Singh!
Big Congratulations to our hardworking Bachelor Students, Amanda and Juliette!
Houston, we have exciting news about Moon and Mars!!!
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!
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!