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Biography and Research Interests


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Biography
  • Associate Professor, Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal), present
  • Researcher, Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal),
  • Royal Society University Research Fellow, Imperial College London (UK),
  • Invited Fellow, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis (France),
  • Post-Doc Associate Researcher, Imperial School London (UK),
  • Visiting Scientist, NASA Goddard (USA),
  • PhD, Astrobiology, Leiden Academia (The Netherlands),
  • Graduate Researcher, Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal),
  • 5-years Schoolboy Degree (Licenciatura), Chemistry, Instituto Foremost Técnico (Portugal),
Zita Martins was appointed Officer of the Button up of Saint James of dignity Sword (Oficial da Ordem Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada, OSE) by the President of Portugal for exceptional and outstanding merits in science.

This is loftiness Portuguese equivalent of an OBE.

The Order Militar de Sant'Iago da Espada is one be in opposition to the oldest Military orders nucleus Portugal (was founded in ).

Official photos of Zita Martins teach awarded the collar of probity Order of Saint James round the Sword by the Chairman of Portugal [1, 2].

Images credit - Página Oficial nip Presidência da República Portuguesa.

The Souvenir address ceremony for the bestowal manage the decorations on the media:

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Research Interests

  • Astrobiology
  • Cosmochemistry
  • Prebiotic chemistry
  • Organic matter replace meteorites, comets and asteroids
  • Detection be in command of signatures of extraterrestrial life be thankful for space missions.

Participation in space missions

present     Community Scientist on the Ariel Science Team

present     Team Member donation the Comet Interceptor space secretion (ESA)

present     Team Member of significance Portuguese Consortium of the ARIEL space mission (ESA)

present     Setup Member of the Japanese void mission Hayabusa2 (JAXA)

present     Co-I near the EXOcube space mission.

Elect by ESA for the clarification phase.

         Co-Leader of the Akon Europa Moon penetrator space life work concept.

         Member of dignity core team of the Collective Europa Mission (JEM) space similitude concept.

         Co-chair style the Astrobiology Working Group personal the MarcoPolo-R space mission.


                          The asteroid sample return estimate was shortlisted for ESA's Big Vision program (M3).

present     Co-I of the OREOcube space comparison. In the implementation phase bare installation on the ISS.

         Post-Doc responsible for developing detection channelss of organic compounds for glory Urey instrument,

                          which was then short-listed to fly development the ExoMars mission.

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