KEYNOTE Mike Russell

Mike Russell:
Order from Order: How Life Emerged from a Convection-driven Submarine Spring
Abstract: https://direct.mit.edu/isal/proceedin...

Mike Russell is a geologist who works on the origin of life. He is the originator of the theory that life emerged at alkaline submarine hydrothermal vents. He was NASA Senior Research Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and a member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute from 2006 until 2019. Russell was an undergraduate in geology at Queen Mary College of the University of London, took his PhD in geochemistry at University of Durham, taught at the University of Glasgow, and was a visiting Professor at the University of Grenoble. Russell has appeared on BBC programmes including Life on Mars and Origin of Life.