On the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars, PI Merve Yeşilbaş was interviewed by Populär Astronomi on how our view of the Red Planet has changed — from imaginary canals to today's rovers, and the surprising lesson Viking taught us about Martian organics.

PI Merve Yeşilbaş was invited to speak at the Annual Meeting of the Swedish Chemical Society (Svenska Kemisamfundet). Her talk, "From Asteroids to Mars," traced how life's molecular building blocks are delivered across the Solar System and preserved under harsh planetary conditions.

PI Merve Yeşilbaş was invited to give a public outreach talk at Curiosum, Umeå University's science center, as part of the Curiosum Space series — sharing the search for life beyond Earth with a curious audience of all ages.

Students' choice! Our PI Merve Yeşilbaş has received the NTK Pedagogical Prize from the Umeå Student Union of Science and Technology. The students' own award, honoring her for inspiring engagement and bringing cutting-edge research into the chemistry classroom.

Our PI Merve Yeşilbaş is the Spring Profile of Populär Astronomi (No. 1, 2026)! The feature follows her journey from Istanbul to NASA to our Umeå "space lab," and the interdisciplinary team hunting for biosignatures on Mars.

Our PI was recently interviewed by Jonas Enander for Forskning & Framsteg to share her insights on NASA’s exciting new discovery from Mars, revealed by the Perseverance rover.

Our PI Merve was interviewed about her recent research on gypsum transformations under Martian conditions that featured in Spectroscopy Magazine under “National Space Day” theme!

Congratulations to our Kempe postdoc fellow Dr. Santos for a wonderful interview that published in Umea University!

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!!