@phdthesis{Stroncik2019,
  author    = {Stroncik, Nicole A.},
  title     = {Volatiles as tracers for mantle processes and magma formation and evolution},
  pages     = {102},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {The geochemical composition of oceanic basalts provides us with a window into the distribution of geochemical elements within the Earth's mantle in space and time. In conjunction with a throughout knowledge on how the different elements behave e.g. during melt formation and evolution or on their partition behaviour between e.g. minerals and melts this information has been transformed into various models on how oceanic crust is formed along plume influenced or normal mid-ocean ridge segments, how oceanic crust evolves in response to seawater, on subduction recycling of oceanic crust and so forth. The work presented in this habilitation was aimed at refining existing models, putting further constraints on some of the major open questions in this field of research while at the same time trying to increase our knowledge on the behaviour of noble gases as a tracer for melt formation and evolution processes. In the line of this work the author and her co-workers were able to answer one of the major questions concerning the formation of oceanic crust along plume-influenced ridges - in which physical state does the plume material enter the ridge? Based on submarine volcanic glass He, Ne and Ar data, the author and her co-workers have shown that the interaction of mantle plumes with mid-ocean ridges occurs in the physical form of melts. In addition, the author and her co-workers have also put further constraints on one of the major questions concerning the formation of oceanic crust along normal mid-ocean ridges - namely how is the mid-ocean ridge system effectively cooled to form the lower oceanic crust? Based on Ne and Ar data in combination with Cl/K ratios of basaltic glass from the Mid-Atlantic ridge and estimates of crystallisation pressures they have shown, that seawater penetration reaches lower crustal levels close to the Moho, indicating that hydrothermal circulation might be an effective cooling mechanism even for the deep parts of the oceanic crust. Considering subduction recycling, the heterogeneity of the Earth's mantle and mantle dynamic processes the key question is on which temporal and spatial scales is the Earth's mantle geochemically heterogeneous? In the line of this work the author along with her co-workers have shown based on Cl/K ratios in conjunction with the Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes of the OIBs representing the type localities for the different mantle endmembers that the quantity of Cl recycled into the mantle via subduction is not uniform and that neither the HIMU nor the EM1 and EM2 mantle components can be considered as distinct mantle endmembers. In addition, we have shown, based on He, Ne and Ar isotope and trace-element data from the Foundation hotspot that the near ridge seamounts of the Foundation seamount chain formed by the Foundation hotspot erupt lavas with a trace-element signature clearly characteristic of oceanic gabbro which indicates the existence of recycled, virtually unchanged lower oceanic crust in the plume source. This is a clear sign of the inefficiency of the stirring mechanism existing at mantle depth. Similar features are seen in other near-axis hotspot magmas around the world. Based on He, Sr, Nd, Pb and O isotopes and trace elements in primitive mafic dykes from the Etendeka flood basalts, NW Namibia the author along with her co-workers have shown that deep, less degassed mantle material carried up by a mantle plume contributed significantly to the flood basalt magmatism. The Etendeka flood basalts are part of the South Atlantic LIP, which is associated with the breakup of Gondwana, the formation of the Paran{\´a}-Etendeka flood basalts and the Walvis Ridge - Tristan da Cunha hotspot track. Thus reinforcing the lately often-challenged concept of mantle plumes and the role of mantle plumes in the formation of large igneous provinces. Studying the behaviour of noble gases during melt formation and evolution the author along with her co-workers has shown that He can be considerable more susceptible to changes during melt formation and evolution resulting not only in a complete decoupling of He isotopes from e.g. Ne or Pb isotopes but also in a complete loss of the primary mantle isotope signal. They have also shown that this decoupling occurs mainly during the melt formation processes requiring He to be more compatible during mantle melting than Ne. In addition, the author along with her co workers were able to show that incorporation of atmospheric noble gases into igneous rocks is in general a two-step process: (1) magma contamination by assimilation of altered oceanic crust results in the entrainment of air-equilibrated seawater noble gases; (2) atmospheric noble gases are adsorbed onto grain surfaces during sample preparation. This implies, considering the ubiquitous presence of the contamination signal, that magma contamination by assimilation of a seawater-sourced component is an integral part of mid-ocean ridge basalt evolution.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Aleksandrova2020,
  author    = {Aleksandrova, Krasimira},
  title     = {Understanding the link between obesity and colorectal cancer},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2020},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Budke2010,
  author    = {Budke, Alexandra},
  title     = {Und der Zukunft abgewandt},
  series = {Eckert : die Schriftenreihe ; Studien des Georg-Eckert-Instituts zur Internationalen Bildungsmedienforschung},
  journal   = {Eckert : die Schriftenreihe ; Studien des Georg-Eckert-Instituts zur Internationalen Bildungsmedienforschung},
  number    = {127},
  publisher = {V \& R Unipress},
  address   = {G{\"o}ttingen},
  isbn      = {978-3-89971-627-6},
  issn      = {2198-6320},
  pages     = {409},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Seit dem Ende der DDR, das den Zusammenbruch des Ostblocks und damit die Beendigung des »Kalten Kriegs« einleitete, wird verst{\"a}rkt versucht, das Wesen dieses Staates zu definieren und damit seine Folgen auf wirtschaftlicher, sozialer, psychologischer und bildungspolitischer Ebene zu verstehen und einzuordnen. Alexandra Budke analysiert in diesem Band das Schulfach Geographie, das neben der Staatsb{\"u}rgerkunde und der Geschichte ein zentrales Fach war und in dem die in den Lehrpl{\"a}nen definierte »staatsb{\"u}rgerliche, weltanschauliche oder ideologische Erziehung« auf der Grundlage des Marxismus-Leninismus stattfinden sollte. Sie kl{\"a}rt, inwiefern Geographieunterricht in der DDR genutzt wurde, um geopolitische Interessen des Staates zu kommunizieren und zu verbreiten. Damit l{\"a}sst sich durch die detaillierte Analyse des Fachunterrichts auch die Frage beantworten, ob Sch{\"u}lerInnen im Unterricht politisch manipuliert wurden und welche Handlungsm{\"o}glichkeiten die zentralen Akteure des Unterrichts, die LehrerInnen und die Sch{\"u}lerInnen, im Rahmen der durch die Bildungspolitik gesetzten curricularen Vorgaben wahrgenommen haben.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{Weikl2007,
  author    = {Weikl, Thomas R.},
  title     = {Transition states and loop-closure principles in protein folding},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-26975},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  year      = {2007},
  abstract  = {Proteins are chain molecules built from amino acids. The precise sequence of the 20 different types of amino acids in a protein chain defines into which structure a protein folds, and the three-dimensional structure in turn specifies the biological function of the protein. The reliable folding of proteins is a prerequisite for their robust function. Misfolding can lead to protein aggregates that cause severe diseases, such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, or the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Small single-domain proteins often fold without experimentally detectable metastable intermediate states. The folding dynamics of these proteins is thought to be governed by a single transition-state barrier between the unfolded and the folded state. The transition state is highly instable and cannot be observed directly. However, mutations in which a single amino acid of the protein is substituted by another one can provide indirect access. The mutations slightly change the transition-state barrier and, thus, the folding and unfolding times of the protein. The central question is how to reconstruct the transition state from the observed changes in folding times. In this habilitation thesis, a novel method to extract structural information on transition states from mutational data is presented. The method is based on (i) the cooperativity of structural elements such as alpha-helices and beta-hairpins, and (ii) on splitting up mutation-induced free-energy changes into components for these elements. By fitting few parameters, the method reveals the degree of structure formation of alpha-helices and beta-hairpins in the transition state. In addition, it is shown in this thesis that the folding routes of small single-domain proteins are dominated by loop-closure dependencies between the structural elements.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Hennemann2020,
  author    = {Hennemann, Anja},
  title     = {Topic and Focus Markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French},
  series = {Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30},
  journal   = {Potsdam linguistic investigations ; 30},
  publisher = {Lang},
  address   = {Berlin},
  isbn      = {978-3-631-82392-7},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {307},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {This book is concerned with the diachronic development of selected topic and focus markers in Spanish, Portuguese and French. On the one hand, it focuses on the development of these structures from their relational meaning to their topic-/ focus-marking meaning, and on the other hand, it is concerned with their current form und use. Thus, Romance topic and focus markers - such as sp. en cuanto a, pt. a prop{\´o}sito de, fr. au niveau de or sentence-initial sp. Lo que as well as clefts and pseudo-clefts - are investigated from a quantitative and qualitative perspective. The author argues that topic markers have procedural meaning and that their function is bound to their syntactic position. An important contribution of this study is the fact that real linguistic evidence (in the form of data from various corpora) is analyzed instead of operating with constructed examples.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{KonradSchmolke2016,
  author    = {Konrad-Schmolke, Matthias},
  title     = {Thermodynamic and geochemical modeling in metamorphic geology},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-101805},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {232},
  year      = {2016},
  abstract  = {Quantitative thermodynamic and geochemical modeling is today applied in a variety of geological environments from the petrogenesis of igneous rocks to the oceanic realm. Thermodynamic calculations are used, for example, to get better insight into lithosphere dynamics, to constrain melting processes in crust and mantle as well as to study fluid-rock interaction. The development of thermodynamic databases and computer programs to calculate equilibrium phase diagrams have greatly advanced our ability to model geodynamic processes from subduction to orogenesis. However, a well-known problem is that despite its broad application the use and interpretation of thermodynamic models applied to natural rocks is far from straightforward. For example, chemical disequilibrium and/or unknown rock properties, such as fluid activities, complicate the application of equilibrium thermodynamics. One major aspect of the publications presented in this Habilitationsschrift are new approaches to unravel dynamic and chemical histories of rocks that include applications to chemically open system behaviour. This approach is especially important in rocks that are affected by element fractionation due to fractional crystallisation and fluid loss during dehydration reactions. Furthermore, chemically open system behaviour has also to be considered for studying fluid-rock interaction processes and for extracting information from compositionally zoned metamorphic minerals. In this Habilitationsschrift several publications are presented where I incorporate such open system behaviour in the forward models by incrementing the calculations and considering changing reacting rock compositions during metamorphism. I apply thermodynamic forward modelling incorporating the effects of element fractionation in a variety of geodynamic and geochemical applications in order to better understand lithosphere dynamics and mass transfer in solid rocks. In three of the presented publications I combine thermodynamic forward models with trace element calculations in order to enlarge the application of geochemical numerical forward modeling. In these publications a combination of thermodynamic and trace element forward modeling is used to study and quantify processes in metamorphic petrology at spatial scales from µm to km. In the thermodynamic forward models I utilize Gibbs energy minimization to quantify mineralogical changes along a reaction path of a chemically open fluid/rock system. These results are combined with mass balanced trace element calculations to determine the trace element distribution between rock and melt/fluid during the metamorphic evolution. Thus, effects of mineral reactions, fluid-rock interaction and element transport in metamorphic rocks on the trace element and isotopic composition of minerals, rocks and percolating fluids or melts can be predicted. One of the included publications shows that trace element growth zonations in metamorphic garnet porphyroblasts can be used to get crucial information about the reaction path of the investigated sample. In order to interpret the major and trace element distribution and zoning patterns in terms of the reaction history of the samples, we combined thermodynamic forward models with mass-balance rare earth element calculations. Such combined thermodynamic and mass-balance calculations of the rare earth element distribution among the modelled stable phases yielded characteristic zonation patterns in garnet that closely resemble those in the natural samples. We can show in that paper that garnet growth and trace element incorporation occurred in near thermodynamic equilibrium with matrix phases during subduction and that the rare earth element patterns in garnet exhibit distinct enrichment zones that fingerprint the minerals involved in the garnet-forming reactions. In two of the presented publications I illustrate the capacities of combined thermodynamic-geochemical modeling based on examples relevant to mass transfer in subduction zones. The first example focuses on fluid-rock interaction in and around a blueschist-facies shear zone in felsic gneisses, where fluid-induced mineral reactions and their effects on boron (B) concentrations and isotopic compositions in white mica are modeled. In the second example, fluid release from a subducted slab and associated transport of B and variations in B concentrations and isotopic compositions in liberated fluids and residual rocks are modeled. I show that, combined with experimental data on elemental partitioning and isotopic fractionation, thermodynamic forward modeling unfolds enormous capacities that are far from exhausted. In my publications presented in this Habilitationsschrift I compare the modeled results to geochemical data of natural minerals and rocks and demonstrate that the combination of thermodynamic and geochemical models enables quantification of metamorphic processes and insights into element cycling that would have been unattainable so far. Thus, the contributions to the science community presented in this Habilitatonsschrift concern the fields of petrology, geochemistry, geochronology but also ore geology that all use thermodynamic and geochemical models to solve various problems related to geo-materials.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Boese2017,
  author    = {Boese, Adrian Daniel},
  title     = {Theorie und Berechnung intermolekularer Wechselwirkungen},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412867},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {235},
  year      = {2017},
  abstract  = {Die klassische Physik/Chemie unterscheidet zwischen drei Bindungstypen: Der kovalenten Bindung, der ionischen Bindung und der metallischen Bindung. Molek{\"u}le untereinander werden hingegen durch schwache Wechselwirkungen zusammen gehalten, sie sind trotz ihrer schwachen Kr{\"a}fte weniger verstanden, aber dabei nicht weniger wichtig. In zukunftsweisenden Gebieten wie der Nanotechnologie, der Supramolekularen Chemie und Biochemie sind sie von elementarer Bedeutung. Um schwache, intermolekulare Wechselwirkungen zu beschreiben, vorauszusagen und zu verstehen, sind sie zun{\"a}chst theoretisch zu erfassen. Hierzu geh{\"o}ren verschiedene quantenchemische Methoden, die in dieser Arbeit vorgestellt, verglichen, weiterentwickelt und schließlich auch exemplarisch auf Problemstellungen in der Chemie angewendet werden. Aufbauend auf einer Hierarchie von Methoden unterschiedlicher Genauigkeit werden sie f{\"u}r diese Ziele eingesetzt, ausgearbeitet und kombiniert. Berechnet wird die Elektronenstruktur, also die Verteilung und Energie von Elektronen, die im Wesentlichen die Atome zusammen halten. Da Ungenauigkeiten von der Beschreibung der Elektronenstruktur von den verwendeten Methoden abh{\"a}ngen, kann man die Effekte detailliert untersuchen, sie beschreiben und darauf aufbauend weiter entwickeln, um sie anschließend an verschiedenen Modellen zu testen. Die Geschwindigkeit der Berechnungen mit modernen Computern ist eine wesentliche, zu ber{\"u}cksichtigende Komponente, da im Allgemeinen die Genauigkeit mit der Rechenzeit exponentiell steigt, und die damit an die Grenzen der M{\"o}glichkeiten stoßen muss. Die genaueste der verwendeten Methoden basiert auf der Coupled-Cluster-Theorie, die sehr gute Voraussagen erm{\"o}glicht. F{\"u}r diese wird eine sogenannte spektroskopische Genauigkeit mit Abweichungen von wenigen Wellenzahlen erzielt, was Vergleiche mit experimentellen Daten zeigen. Eine M{\"o}glichkeit zur N{\"a}herung von hochgenauen Methoden basiert auf der Dichtefunktionaltheorie: Hier wurde das „Boese-Martin for Kinetics" (BMK)-Funktional entwickelt, dessen Funktionalform sich in vielen nach 2010 ver{\"o}ffentlichten Dichtefunktionalen wiederfindet. Mit Hilfe der genaueren Methoden lassen sich schließlich semiempirische Kraftfelder zur Beschreibung intermolekularer Wechselwirkungen f{\"u}r individuelle Systeme parametrisieren, diese ben{\"o}tigen weit weniger Rechenzeit als die Methoden, die auf der genauen Berechnung der Elektronenstruktur von Molek{\"u}len beruhen. F{\"u}r gr{\"o}ßere Systeme lassen sich auch verschiedene Methoden kombinieren. Dabei wurden Einbettungsverfahren verfeinert und mit neuen methodischen Ans{\"a}tzen vorgeschlagen. Sie verwenden sowohl die symmetrieadaptierte St{\"o}rungstheorie als auch die quantenchemische Einbettung von Fragmenten in gr{\"o}ßere, quantenchemisch berechnete Systeme. Die Entwicklungen neuer Methoden beziehen ihren Wert im Wesentlichen durch deren Anwendung: In dieser Arbeit standen zun{\"a}chst die Wasserstoffbr{\"u}cken im Vordergrund. Sie z{\"a}hlen zu den st{\"a}rkeren intermolekularen Wechselwirkungen und sind nach wie vor eine Herausforderung. Im Gegensatz dazu sind van-der-Waals Wechselwirkungen relativ einfach durch Kraftfelder zu beschreiben. Deshalb sind viele der heute verwendeten Methoden f{\"u}r Systeme, in denen Wasserstoffbr{\"u}cken dominieren, vergleichsweise schlecht. Eine Untersuchung molekularer Aggregate mit Auswirkungen intermolekularer Wechselwirkungen auf die Schwingungsfrequenzen von Molek{\"u}len schließt sich an. Dabei wird auch {\"u}ber die sogenannte starrer-Rotor-harmonischer-Oszillator-N{\"a}herung hinausgegangen. Eine weitreichende Anwendung behandelt Adsorbate, hier die von Molek{\"u}len auf ionischen/metallischen Oberfl{\"a}chen. Sie k{\"o}nnen mit {\"a}hnlichen Methoden behandelt werden wie die intermolekularen Wechselwirkungen, und sind mit speziellen Einbettungsverfahren sehr genau zu beschreiben. Die Resultate dieser theoretischen Berechnungen stimulierten eine Neubewertung der bislang bekannten experimentellen Ergebnisse. Molekulare Kristalle sind ein {\"a}ußerst wichtiges Forschungsgebiet. Sie werden durch schwache Wechselwirkungen zusammengehalten, die von van-der-Waals Kr{\"a}ften bis zu Wasserstoffbr{\"u}cken reichen. Auch hier wurden neuentwickelte Methoden eingesetzt, die eine interessante, mindestens ebenso genaue Alternative zu den derzeit g{\"a}ngigen Methoden darstellen. Von daher sind die entwickelten Methoden, als auch deren Anwendung {\"a}ußerst vielf{\"a}ltig. Die behandelten Berechnungen der Elektronenstruktur erstrecken sich von den sogenannten post-Hartree-Fock-Methoden {\"u}ber den Einsatz der Dichtefunktionaltheorie bis zu semiempirischen Kraftfeldern und deren Kombinationen. Die Anwendung reicht von einzelnen Molek{\"u}len in der Gasphase {\"u}ber die Adsorption auf Oberfl{\"a}chen bis zum molekularen Festk{\"o}rper.},
  language  = {de}
}
@phdthesis{BacskaiAtkari2021,
  author    = {Bacskai-Atkari, Julia},
  title     = {The syntax of functional left peripheries},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {Vi, 215},
  year      = {2021},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{Schleicher2019,
  author    = {Schleicher, Anja Maria},
  title     = {The significance of clay minerals in active fault zones},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {167},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Die vorliegende Habilitationsschrift umfasst Forschungsergebnisse aus Studien, die sich mit Fluid-Gesteins-Wechselwirkungen und Deformationsprozessen in aktiven St{\"o}rungszonen befassen, wobei der Einfluss der Tonminerale auf das geochemische und hydromechanische Verhalten dieser St{\"o}rungen im Vordergrund steht. Kernproben (core) und Bohrklein (cuttings) aus vier verschiedenen Bohrprojekten an der San Andreas St{\"o}rung (USA), der Nankai Trough Subduktionszone und der Japan Trench Subduktionszone (Japan), sowie der Alpine St{\"o}rung in Neuseeland wurden untersucht. Die von ICDP (International Continental Scientific Drilling Program) und IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) unterst{\"u}tzten Projekte verfolgen alle das Ziel, das Verhalten von Erdbeben besser zu verstehen. In Kapitel 1 werden in einer kurzen Einleitung die allgemeinen thematischen Grundlagen und Ziele der Arbeit beschrieben. Kapitel 2 umfasst den Stand der Forschung, eine kurze Beschreibung der einzelnen Bohrprojekte und Standorte, sowie eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten Messmethoden. Kapitel 3 beinhaltet insgesamt zehn wissenschaftliche Arbeiten, die alle in einem methodisch-thematischen Zusammenhang stehen. Die Manuskripte wurden in den Jahren 2006-2015 ver{\"o}ffentlicht, wobei weitere Arbeiten aus diesem Themenbereich im Literaturverzeichnis vermerkt sind. Sie gehen auf unterschiedliche Fragestellungen um die Bildung und das Verhalten von Tonmineralen in aktiven St{\"o}rungszonen ein. Insgesamt sechs Publikationen beinhalten Daten und Forschungsergebnisse, die im Rahmen des SAFOD Projektes, USA (San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth) erstellt wurden. Hier wurde vor allem auf die Fluid-Gesteins-Wechselwirkungsprozesse im St{\"o}rungsgestein und die daraus resultierende Bildung von Tonmineralen eingegangen. Drei weitere Arbeiten wurden im Rahmen des NanTroSEIZE Projektes, Japan (Nankai Trough Seismogenic Zone Experiment) und des JFAST Projektes, Japan (Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project) erstellt. Hier steht vor allem das Verhalten von quellf{\"a}higen Tonmineralen auf sich {\"a}ndernde Umgebungsbedingungen (z.B. Temperatur und Feuchtigkeit) im Mittelpunkt. Die zehnte hier vorgestellte Ver{\"o}ffentlichung betrifft Analysen rund um das DFDP Projekt (Deep Fault Drilling Project) in Neuseeland, wobei hier die Deformation von Tonmineralen und das hydro-mechanische Verhalten der St{\"o}rungszone im Vordergrund stehen. In neun Ver{\"o}ffentlichungen war ich als Erstautor f{\"u}r die Vorbereitung des Projektes, das Erstellen der Daten und die Fertigstellung der Manuskripte zust{\"a}ndig. In einer Publikation war ich als Mitautorin f{\"u}r die elektronenmikroskopischen Analysen und deren Interpretation verantwortlich. Die wichtigsten Ergebnisse der in Kapitel 3 vorgelegten Arbeiten werden in Kapitel 4 unter Ber{\"u}cksichtigung neuer Publikationen diskutiert. Nach der Beschreibung der Thesen in Kapitel 5 werden in Kapitel 6 „Outlook" die Highlights zuk{\"u}nftiger Forschungspl{\"a}ne am GFZ n{\"a}her beschrieben. Die Habilitationsschrift endet mit dem Anhang, in welchem unter anderem das Laborequipment genauer beschrieben wird, sowie die Publikationen, Konferenzbeitr{\"a}ge und Lehrbeitr{\"a}ge aufgelistet sind.},
  language  = {en}
}
@phdthesis{deVera2018,
  author    = {de Vera, Jean-Pierre Paul},
  title     = {The relevance of ecophysiology in astrobiology and planetary research},
  school      = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam},
  pages     = {219},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {Eco-physiological processes are expressing the interaction of organisms within an environmental context of their habitat and their degree of adaptation, level of resistance as well as the limits of life in a changing environment. The present study focuses on observations achieved by methods used in this scientific discipline of "Ecophysiology" and to enlarge the scientific context in a broader range of understanding with universal character. The present eco-physiological work is building the basis for classifying and exploring the degree of habitability of another planet like Mars by a bio-driven experimentally approach. It offers also new ways of identifying key-molecules which are playing a specific role in physiological processes of tested organisms to serve as well as potential biosignatures in future space exploration missions with the goal to search for life. This has important implications for the new emerging scientific field of Astrobiology. Astrobiology addresses the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The three fundamental questions which are hidden behind this definition are: how does life begin and evolve? Is there life beyond Earth and, if so, how can we detect it? What is the future of life on Earth and in the universe? It means that this multidisciplinary field encompasses the search for habitable environments in our Solar System and habitable planets outside our Solar System. It comprises the search for the evidence of prebiotic chemistry and life on Mars and other bodies in our Solar System like the icy moons of the Jovian and Saturnian system, laboratory and field research into the origins and early evolution of life on Earth, and studies of the potential for life to adapt to challenges on Earth and in space. For this purpose an integrated research strategy was applied, which connects field research, laboratory research allowing planetary simulation experiments with investigation enterprises performed in space (particularly performed in the low Earth Orbit.},
  language  = {en}
}