The objective of the research of the cross-regional Collaborative Research Center The Origins of Life: Investigating Mechanisms with Interdisciplinary Experiments (“Lebensentstehung: Erkundung von Mechanismen mit interdisziplinären Experimenten”) is to perform laboratory tests on various hypotheses about the origins of life. This is made possible by close collaboration among scientists in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Geosciences and Physics.
The coordinator is Prof. Dieter Braun (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München); other collaboration partners are the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried and the German Research Center for Environmental Health (Helmholtz Zentrum München), the University of Stuttgart and Heidelberg University.
