Julian Chela-Flores

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CHELA-FLORES, JULIAN, Professor

 

Staff Associate, Applied Physics Scientific Section, The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), a unique UNESCO/IAEA institution dedicated to research, training and to the advancement of science in the developing world.

Mailing Address: The Abdus Salam ICTP, Strada Costiera 11 ; 34151 Trieste, Italy.

Telephone:+390-40 22 40 392
Facsimile: + 390-40 22 41 63
skype: jchelaf
E-Mail: chelaf@ictp.it
Home Page: http://www.ictp.it/~chelaf/index.html


CV AND BIODATA 

EDUCATION:

Ph. D., University of London.

CURRENT ACADEMIC DUTIES:

Current administrative activities in the Applied Physics Scientific Section of The Abdus Salam ICTP.

PREVIOUS ACADEMIC DUTIES:

Previous administrative activities in the organization of academic events.

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Astrobiology (origin, evolution, distribution and destiny of life in the universe).

Astrobiology and human culture (ethics, philosophy and theology).

SCIENCE COMMUNICATION

PUBLICATIONS:

          1. Selected papers

          2. Earlier papers

RECENT PAPERS


Chela-Flores, J. (2012). A case for landing on the moon's farside to test nitrogen abundances. International Journal of Astrobiology, 11,61-69
doi:10.1017/S1473550411000334    © Cambridge University Press 2011


Smith, A.; Crawford, I. A.; Gowen, R. A.; Ambrosi, R.; Anand, M.; Banerdt, B.; Bannister, N.; Bowles, N.; Braithwaite, C.; Brown, P.; Chela-Flores, J.; Cholinser, T.; Church, P.; Coates, A. J.; Colaprete, T.; Collins, G.; Collinson, G.; Cook, T.; Elphic, R.; Fraser, G.; Gao, Y.; Gibson, E.; Glotch, T.; Grande, M.; Griffiths, A.; Grygorczuk, J.; Gudipati, M.; Hagermann, A.; Heldmann, J.; Hood, L. L.; Jones, A. P.; Joy, K.; Khavroshkin, O. B.; Klingelhoefer, G.; Knapmeyer, M.; Kramer, G.; Lawrence, D.; Marczewski, W.; McKenna-Lawlor, S.; Miljkovic, K.; Narendranath, S.; Palomba, E.; Phipps, A.; Pike, W. T.; Pullan, D.; Rask, J.; Richard, D. T.; Seweryn, K.; Sheridan, S.; Sims, M.; Sweeting, M.; Swindle, T.; Talboys, D.; Taylor, L.; Teanby, N.; Tong, V.; Ulamec, S.;  Wawrzaszek, R.; Wieczorek, M.; Wilson, L.; Wright, I. (2012). Lunar Net —A proposal in response to an ESA M3 call in 2010 for a medium sized mission. Experimental Astronomy 33, Issue 2, 587-644.

Chela-Flores, J.; Seckbach, J. (2011) The Dry Valley Lakes, Antarctica: from sulfur stains on Earth to sulfur stains in the Jovian system. Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XIV. Edited by Hoover, Richard B.; Davies, Paul C. W.; Levin, Gilbert V.; Rozanov, Alexei Y. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8152, pp. 81520R-81520R-8. DOI: 10.1117/12.898763.

Gowen, R. A.; Smith, A.; Fortes, A. D.; Barber, S.; Brown, P.; Church, P.; Collinson, G.; Coates, A. J.; Collins, G.; Crawford, I. A.; Dehant, V.; Chela-Flores, J.; Griffiths, A. D.; Grindrod, P. M.; Gurvits, L. I.; Hagermann, A.; Hussmann, H.; Jaumann, R.; Jones, A. P.; Joy. A.; Sephton, K. H.; Karatekin, O.; Miljkovic, K.; Palomba, E.; Pike, W.T.; Prieto-Ballesteros, O.; Raulin, F.; Sephton, M. A.; Sheridan, M. S.; Sims, M.; Storrie-Lombardi, M. C.; Ambrosi, R.; Fielding, J.; Fraser, G.; Gao, Y.; Jones, G. H.; Kargl, G.; Karl, W. J.; Macagnano, A.; Mukherjee, A.; Muller, J. P.; Phipps, A.; Pullan, D.; Richter, L.; Sohl, F.; Snape, J.; Sykes, J.; Wells, N. (2011). Penetrators for in situ sub-surface investigations of Europa. Adv. Space Res. 48, 725-742.

Chela-Flores, J. (2010). Instrumentation for the search of habitable ecosystems in the future exploration of Europa and Ganymede. International Journal of Astrobiology, 9 (2), 101-108. (Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press: 2010).

Blanc, M.et al, and LAPLACE Team Members (2009). LAPLACE: a mission to Europa and the Jupiter System for ESA's Cosmic Vision Programme, Experimental Astronomy, Volume 23, Issue 3, pp.849-892.

Messerotti, M. and Chela-Flores, J. (2009). Solar activity and life. A Review. Acta Geophysica 57 (1), 64-74.

 Chela-Flores, J. and Kumar, N. (2008). Returning to Europa: Can traces of surficial life be detected? International Journal of Astrobiology, 7(3), pp. 263-269. (Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press).

Smith, A., Crawford, I. A., Gowen, R. A., Ball, A. J., Barber, S. J., Church, P., Coates, A. J., Gao, Y., Griffiths, A. D., Hagermann, A., Phipps, A., Pike, W. T., Scott, R., Sheridan, S., Sweeting, M., Talboys, D., Tong, V., Wells, N., Biele, J., Chela-Flores, J., Dabrowski, B., Flannagan, J, Grande, M., Grygorczuk, J., Kargl, G., Khavroshkin, O. B., Klingelhoefer, G., Knapmeyer, M., Marczewski, W., McKenna-Lawlor, S., Richter, L., Rothery, D. A., Seweryn, K., Ulamec, S., Wawrzaszek, R., Wieczorek, M. and Wright, I. P. (2008). LunarEX-A proposal to Cosmic Vision, Experimental Astronomy 10.1007/s10686-008-9109-6 (August 21).

Chela-Flores, J. (2007). Testing the universality of biology. International Journal of Astrobiology, 6 (3), 241-248 (Copyright holder: Cambridge University Press).


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