Impacts and their Role in the Origin and Evolution of Life Conference

The meeting will take place from 1 to 4 September 2025 in the picturesque medieval city of Nördlingen , which is situated inside the world-famous Ries crater in southern Germany. It aims to cover the role of meteorite and comets impacts in the formation of Earth, its atmosphere and the evolution of life. The conference will consist of lectures, discussions and excursions and participants will also have the possibility to display their own research results in one or two poster sessions. The European Astrobiology Institute and the Stockholm University Astrobiology Centre, and the University of Neu-Ulm will function as co-organisers of the conference.

The following subjects will be covered:

- Impacts and the early history of the Solar System

- Impact structures as indicators of target properties

- Role of impacts in delivery and formation of the building blocks for life

- Impact-generated habitats for life

- Environment effects of impacts

- Impacts as threats for life and humankind

- Geoconservation, education and outreach of impacts

We also will have two one-day excursions, one around the Ries crater on 4th September and one half-day excursion on 2 September to the Steinheim crater with its famous central uplift feature.

Abstract submission has already passed (May 31st, 2025), but the registration deadline to attend is June 30th, 2025.

Please see the website

https://europeanastrobiology.eu/nordlingen-conference/

for further information.