Oliver Botta
	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Code 699 Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA Tel: +1 (301) 614 6380, Fax: +1 (301) 614 6406, E-mail: obotta@gsfc.nasa.gov
	Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from the University of Basel, CH; 3 year post-doc at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, USA

• Extraterrestrial organic chemistry: Analysis of meteorites
• Research in Microgravity: the Miller-Urey Experiment in space
• Laboratory simulations and observations of organics in the interstellar medium and Solar System: Radio observations

Oliver currently works as a Visiting Assistant Research Scientist at NASA Goddard in the US.