LOUIS ALLAMANDOLA - NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER

Astrophysics Branch - Mail Stop 245-6 - Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
Phone:  650-604-6890     Fax:  650-604-6779     Email:  lallamandola@mail.arc.nasa.gov

Title and Role

Co-Investigator - Responsible for leadership of Investigation 1, Prebiotic Organics in Space.  Dr. Allamandola will coordinate the elements, take part in the design and analysis of laboratory experiments and astronomical observation, and ensure astrobiological interpretation.

Related Experience Summary

Decades of work in infrared astronomy, astrochemistry, and exobiology.  Ames Astrochemistry laboratory founder and director.  Co-I of previous NAI investigation.  Numerous SOCs and NASA advisory panels e.g  Origins Subcommittee, Astrobiology Roadmap team, Ames Science Advisory Counsel, Bahcall Committee,  NASA's Infrared-Submillimeter-Radio MOWG, etc.

Employment History

10/83 to present, Astrochemistry Laboratory Group Leader, NASA Ames
9/76 to 9/83, Laboratoriuum voor Astrofysica Faculty member, Leiden University Netherlands

Education

Ph.D., Physical Chemistry, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 1974.
B.Sci., Chemistry, St. Peter's College, Jersey City, NJ, 1968.

Professional Societies

American Chemical Society
Friends of Berkeley Chemistry
International Astronomical Union
American Astronomical Society

Awards and Honors

NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal
NASA-Ames H. Julien Allen Award for Best Scientific Paper
Ames Associate Fellow

Selected Relevant Publications

E. Peeters, et al (2002). The Rich 6 to 9 micron Spectrum of Interstellar PAHs. A&A 390, 1089

Pendleton, Y.J. and Allamandola, L.J. (2002). The Organic Refractory Material in the Diffuse Interstellar Medium:Mid-IR Spectroscopic Constraints. Astrophys J. Supp. Ser., 138, 75-98.

Bernstein, M. P.,et al.., (2002) Racemic Amino Acids from the Ultraviolet Photolysis of Interstellar Ice Analogues, Nature 416, 401-403

Deamer, D.,et al. (2002) The First Cell Membranes, Astrobiology, in-press

Allamandola, L.J.et al. (1999) "Evolution of Interstellar Ices," Space Science Rev. 90, 219-232.

Allamandola, L.J., (1997) "The Origin, Composition, and History of Comets," NASA CP-10152.

Allamandola, L.J.,et al. (1997), "Interstellar/Precometary Organic Material and the Photochemical Evolution of Complex Organics," in "Astronomical and Biochemical Origins and the Search for Life in the Universe," eds C.B. Cosmovici, S. Bowyer, and D. Werthimer, (Editrice Compositori, Bologna), 23-49 (1997).

Part of over 170 peer reviewed publications and book chapters

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