Dr Boris Laurent
Research Fellow
Earth and Environmental Sciences
university of st andrews
United Kingdom
Biography
He is a planetary scientist, and he explore the birth and the evolution of our Solar System. His research interests extend from the effects of solar winds on protoplanetary dust, the track for organics and possible biosignatures on Mars and icy moons using UV luminescence, to the determination of the conditions required for life to develop on planetary surfaces. To this end, he simulate in laboratory, by a "bottom-up" approach, the physical-chemical conditions of protoplanetary disk, planets or moons surfaces. This laboratory approach is based on the complementarity between Material Science and Geosciences. Material science provides well-constrained samples, or methods and Geosciences unique natural analogues, allowing a direct approach of complex systems.
Research Interest
develop the UV-fluorescence as a unique tool for planetary exploration.
Publications
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Roskosz M., Laurent B., Leroux H. and Remusat L. Experimental investigation of irradiation-driven hydrogen isotope fractionation in analogues of protoplanetary hydrous silicate dust (2016), The Astrophysical Journal, Vol 832, no. 1.
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Laurent B., Cousins C.R., Martins Z. and Pereira M. Effects of obliquity, atmospheric dust and UV-organic interaction on the survivability of organics on Mars. Geophysical Research Letters (In Revision).
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Laurent B et al. Iceland regoliths as matrix for the detection of organics on Mars using UV-fluorescence.(In prep)
