EANA 2025 Conference
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October 21-24, 2025
Lisboa (Portugal)

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Welcome Letter of the President

Dear EANA 25 participants, colleagues and friends,

I am pleased to wish you a very warm welcome to all of you for this year’s EANA 2025 in the beautiful Portuguese city of Lisbon. Because it is the last time for me as your President, it will be for me a very emotional moment to share with you all achievements and cooperations we achieved within EANA and have prepared during my mandate and to give it in hands of the new incoming President. I am absolutely sure that this new President will also be an excellent new head of EANA and will guide us in a promising future. The reason why I am so confident is, that all of you within EANA are brilliant and excellent people and have the potential to maintain EANA’s brilliance and friendships in science. From such a pool of excellence there could only be a new high qualified person who takes my position to continue on the right and necessary way into a new promising future.

I am very glad to announce that this year around 200 participants are joining us at EANA 2025. This has also to be emphasized because with another Astrobiology conference BEACON of our dear colleagues of the European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) this year, we are happy that the attendance is still at a very high level. It means that since our beginning 24 years ago we have a significant stabile community joining us at our conference in our friendly and familial atmosphere.

By this occasion I would like to emphasize that next year we will have our EANA 25 years anniversary. I am looking forward to this event and hope that also you could come with good ideas about actions how we could celebrate this special event next year. Each EANA member could have also the possibility to share own suggestions at the General Assembly (GA) we have reactivated this year. All active EANA members in addition to the newly constituted EANA council could join us there and explain and discuss their ideas in addition to all other topics which are on the GA agenda. The reanimated GA is the platform where all EANA members could also actively express and discuss their positions, wishes and plans with the council and the executive board. You are very welcome to join us there. But be aware that you allowed to join just in case you have still paid your EANA fee at least for this year. One important topic on the agenda will also show the progress about the cooperation mode between EANA and EAI. We are approaching the finalization of a Memorandum of Understanding what clearly shows our different organization structures but common goals to foster astrobiology in Europe. EANA and EAI are the two pillars of Astrobiology and complement each other to make progress on the way into the future.

Personally, I am very glad that this year we are again able to organize the EANA conference together with representatives of ESA HRE, and to discuss particularly in a dedicated panel the view on future exploration topics, such as missions to the Icy Moons and the needed technology. Particularly I am very grateful to the Portuguese Local Organizing Committee (LOC) with its main organizer Prof. Dr. Zita Martins, as well as the full institutional support of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) and Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE), and to my team in the EANA executive board and the EANA council, who all did a tremendous work to make this conference happen.

We are also very glad that, in old tradition, AbGradE started again the Monday before the EANA conference, with a significant amount of promising young astrobiology scientists attending the AbGradE workshop. I would like to repeat emphasizing that I personally, and we all at EANA, are very proud on this new generation of young scientists, our future of EANA. Please be aware that many of your predecessors are now acting in the EANA council and even in the executive board. Many of you are also working, supporting and participating in the European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) where EANA members are also part of the Management Committee and the Working Groups to support the first Virtual Astrobiology Institute in Europe. Your career within AbGradE, EANA and EAI is on an excellent way for the realization to become a future important actor in Europe’s astrobiology. We always count on you. Please continue your way to the stars and benefit from these opportunities of close networking during EANA 2025.

There is also the tradition of our prestigious Student/Young Scientist SpaceFactor Contest for the best oral presentation and the best poster award. We do not want to miss this tradition and are happy to announce that it will take place again in the mid of the conference week. With that we look forward again to the variety of astrobiological research within our European Community of Young Scientists.

Like the years before, we have an improved evaluation concept for the evaluation of the posters what is absolutely conform with our democratic codes of conducts so that all EANA 2025 participants are able to vote for the best poster through a QR code, allowing to be linked to the EANA poster evaluation site, where you could individually elect your best poster. The poster and oral presentation awards are sponsored by many societies, journals and companies. Furthermore, I would like to thank all the institutional support and financial support (sponsors) of EANA 2025 very much, and also in the name of the LOC and EANA council and executive board namely to: Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) of the University of Lisbon, Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE) from Instituto Superior Técnico, the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), Springer, Mary Ann Liebert (a part of Sage), the Portuguese Space Agency, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), and the European Space Agency (ESA).

I have to emphasize that ESA is since the beginning of EANA one of our main supporters particularly to support also the young astrobiology scientists. Thank you, ESA, for your excellent support during the last 24 years and particularly for supporting again this year EANA 2025. As you know, ESA was and is also benefitting from the EANA community and I am sure in future is also benefitting from our students and young scientists. EANA members have been active in many ESA topical teams, ESA committees and ESA workshops to elaborate future astrobiological strategies, and even participating in space missions on ground, in Low Earth Orbit, in the Solar System and soon beyond. In this frame the meeting aims to foster the collaborations between the LEO-researcher, Moon experts, Exoplanet-Community and Solar System- and Engineering communities, to bring together researchers from diverse fields, and to offer a platform to discuss future joint interdisciplinary projects.

Finally, I would like to wish you all an excellent conference with many excellent talks, meetings, assembly, impressions, exchanges on astrobiological research, projects, strategies and missions organized by the first long standing biggest Astrobiology Network Association in Europe, EANA.

Bem-vindos a Lisboa! Desejo-vos a todos uma muito bem-sucedida conferência EANA 2025!



Jean-Pierre de Vera
President of EANA

About EANA 2025

The EANA 2025 will be held at Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisboa, Portugal, from the 21st (Tuesday) to the 24th (Friday) of October 2025. The EANA Council Meeting and AbGradE'25 will be held on Monday, 20th October 2025.

The LOC is composed of Zita Martins (Chair), Nuno Santos, Jorge Gameiro, Pedro Machado, Ana Zélia Miller, and Marta Cortesão and invites the European Astrobiology community for the 25th EANA conference.

The meeting will consist of invited keynote as well as contributed talks, the well-known Space Factor contest, and poster sessions. EANA 2025 will set a special focus on "Astrobiology: From the Field to the Labs and into Space", but welcomes abstracts from all fields of Asrobiology.

EANA 2025 will take place in person only.

For any questions concerning the EANA 2025 conference, please contact the organizers by email (eana-conference@eana-net.eu).

Invited Speakers

  • Rodrigo Coutinho de Almeida, ESA
  • Heike Rauer, DLR/Freie Universität Berlin
  • Ann Carine Vandaele, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
  • Ana Zélia Miller, IRNAS-CSIC

Organising Committee

  • Zita Martins (EANA 2025 Chair), Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
  • Nuno Santos (LOC), Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Jorge Gameiro (LOC), Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Pedro Machado (LOC), Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Ana Zélia Miller (LOC), IRNAS-CSIC, Spain
  • Marta Cortesão (LOC), Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • Jean-Pierre de Vera (EANA President), MUSC, German Aerospace Center, Germany
  • Ruth-Sophie Taubner (EANA Secretary), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
  • Lena Noack (EANA webmaster), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
  • and the EANA council

Local Organising Student Committee

  • Ana Sofia Pereira, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Carlos Ramos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Diogo Gonçalves, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Francisca Paiva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • José Orench Benvenutti, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Lara Gouveia, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Madalena Nunes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Miguel Quiaios, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Miguel Santos, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Tomás Filipe Vicente, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  • Alexandre Branco, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), Portugal
  • Diogo Quirino, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), Portugal
  • Duarte Branco, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), Portugal
  • Eduardo Caetano, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), Portugal
  • Rafael Rianço Silva, Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), Portugal
  • Afonso Mota, IA-CAUP, Portugal
  • Alessa Schiele, IA-CAUP, Portugal, and German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
  • Inês Figueiredo, UK Center Astrobiology, UK
  • Isabel Sousa, IA-CAUP, Portugal

Important Deadlines and Milestones

May 5th 2025:Registration, abstract submission, travel grant & Space Factor application open
July 16th 2025:Travel grant application (as part of abstract submission) closes
July 23th 2025:Space Factor application closes (extended deadline)
July 23th 2025:Abstract submission closes (extended deadline)
August 1st 2025: Notification about abstract and travel grant acceptance
August 31st 2025:Final program incl. information about oral or poster presentation
September 24th 2025:Deadline for presenter registration
October 1th 2025:Registration closes
October 6th 2025:Final deadline to receive payment (transfer two weeks in advance)
October 21st-24th 2025: EANA 2025