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  • A/Prof. Fahrenbach takes a lecture tour of China!

    Albert takes a lecture tour of China. First stop Hangzhou at Westlake University for an invited talk at the International Astrobiology Symposium, 11-15 October 2026. Next stop was The University of Hong Kong for an invited talk at the 4th Stoddart Molecular-cum-Supramolecular Science Symposium with Nobel Laureate Omar Yaghi as the keynote speaker, 21-23 October…

  • Dev Chauhan Presents at the Australian Lipid Meeting

    Dev Chauhan was selected to give an oral presentation at the Australian Lipid Meeting 7 & 5th International Lipidomics Society Conference at Perth on October 17-21 2026. Dev talked about his work on chirality and polymorphism in lipid soft matter. Nice work, Dev!

  • The Australian Centre for Astrobiology’s 25th Anniversary

    A/Prof. Fahrenbach, current director of the Australian Centre for Astrobiology, organises a public panel discussion in celebration of the Centre’s 25 year anniversary. The panel, moderated by Dr Indrani Mukherjee, consisted of Professor Martin Van Kranendonk, Professor Carol Oliver, Professor Kathy Campbell, Director Darren Dougan of the Big Questions Institute and Dr Brett Biddington former…


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  • The Fahrenbach group welcomes Yazhinee Sathiyamoorthy, who will stay at UNSW for about a year doing research for her Masters degree. Welcome, Yazhinee!

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  • Jeremy Tran heads to Rhode Island for AbSciCon to give a talk on his work investigating prebiotic autocatalysis. Nice work, Jeremy!

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  • Former postdoctoral researcher Dr Ruiqin Yi, now Professor Ruiqin Yi, officially gets his new office at Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences! Ruiqin will be starting his own independent research group — well done Professor Yi!

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  • Dr Fahrenbach takes a tour of Texas, visiting Texas A&M University and University of Houston to give talks on prebiotic chemistry at the Chemistry Departments there!

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  • The Fahrenbach Group welcomes Dr Ray DiNardi as one of the newest members!

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  • Dr Fahrenbach travels to University of Melbourne to give a talk about autocatalysis to the School of Chemistry!

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  • Luke Marshall publishes his first first-author paper in ACS Chemical Biology on RNA-binding peptides. Great work, Luke! 

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  • Dev Chauhan just passed his first-year PhD conformation with flying colours and wins best presentation for his first-year talk in front of the School. Nice work, Dev!

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  • Dr Jonas Kaltbeitzel presents at the RACI Supramolecular Conference at UNSW on self-replicating peptide nanocapsules. Nice presentation!

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  • Dr Fahrenbach flies to Japan to give an invited talk at the Joint CO World & 12th ELSI Symposium at the Tokyo Institute of Technology!

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  • Dr Fahrenbach was interviewed at UNSW for a documentary called “Taste: The Flavour of Life” which just debuted!

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  • Congratulations to Yaam Deckel for graduating with a First Class Honours Degree! Our hats are off to you!

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