Prof. Dr.
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in
Professor*in
E-Mail
Telefon
033082 699 10
Zur Alten Fischerhütte 2, OT Neuglobsow, 16775 Stechlin
Profil
Kompetenzen
Geobiologie, Astrobiologie
Professur
für Planetare Habitabilität und Astrobiologie an der Technischen Universität Berlin, Fakultät II Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Zentrum für Astronomie und Astrophysik
Publikationen
Publikationen
2025
September 2025
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Tony Reichhardt
Toward a Reliability Scale for Assessing Reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)
Universe. - 11(2025)10, Art. 326
August 2025
Felix Leo Arens; Jenny Uhl; Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin; Cornelia Karger; Kai Mangelsdorf; Christof Sager; Alessandro Airo; Bernardita Valenzuela; Pedro Zamorano; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Exploring organic compound preservation through long-term in situ experiments in the Atacama desert and the relevance for Mars
Scientific Reports. - 15(2025), Art. 29957
Februar 2025
Max Riekeles; Vincent Bruder; Nicholas Adams; Berke Santos; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Application of chemotactic behavior for life detection
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. - 11(2025), Art. 1490090
2024
November 2024
Felix L. Arens; Alessandro Airo; Christof Sager; Hans-Peter Grossart; Kai Mangelsdorf; Rainer U. Meckenstock; Mark Pannekens; Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin; Jenny Uhl; Bernardita Valenzuela; Pedro Zamorano; Luca Zoccarato; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Microbial response to deliquescence of nitrate-rich soils in the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Biogeosciences. - 21(2024)22, 5305-5320
November 2024
Max Riekeles; Berke Santos; Sherif Al-Morssy Youssef; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Viability and Motility of Escherichia coli Under Elevated Martian Salt Stresses
Life. - 14(2024)12, Art. 1526
November 2024
Alexander Bartholomäus; Steffi Genderjahn; Kai Mangelsdorf; Beate Schneider; Pedro Zamorano; Samuel P. Kounaves; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Dirk Wagner
Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. - 90(2024)12, 1-20
September 2024
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place
Nature Astronomy. - 8(2024), 1208-1210
September 2024
Felix L. Arens; Jenny Feige; Alessandro Airo; Christof Sager; Lutz Hecht; Lucas Horstmann; Felix E.D. Kaufmann; Johannes Lachner; Thomas Neumann; Norbert Nowaczyk; Ferry Schiperski; Peter Steier; Alexandra Stoll; Ulrich Struck; Bernardita Valenzuela; Friedhelm von Blanckenburg; Hella Wittmann; Lukas Wacker; Dirk Wagner; Pedro Zamorano; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Climate variability in a 3.8 Ma old sedimentary record from the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Global and Planetary Change. - 242(2024), 104576
September 2024
Iva Vilović; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; René Heller
Observation of significant photosynthesis in garden cress and cyanobacteria under simulated illumination from a K dwarf star
International Journal of Astrobiology. - 23(2024), e18
August 2024
Fabian Klenner; Mickael Baqué; Kristina Beblo-Vranesevic; Janine Bönigk; Marc S. Boxberg; Bernd Dachwald; Ilya Digel; Andreas Elsaesser; Clemens Espe; Oliver Funke; Ernst Hauber; Dirk Heinen; Florence Hofmann; Lucía Hortal Sánchez; Nozair Khawaja; Maryse Napoleoni; Ana-Catalina Plesa; Frank Postberg; Autun Purser; Tina Rückriemen-Bez; Susanne Schröder; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Stephan Ulamec; Jean-Pierre Paul de Vera
Icy ocean worlds - astrobiology research in Germany
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. - 11(2024), Art. 1422898
August 2024
Piotr Rzymski; Anna Losiak; Jacob Heinz; Marta Szukalska; Ewa Florek; Barbara Poniedziałek; Łukasz Kaczmarek; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mai 2024
Florian Carlo Fischer; Dirk Schulze‑Makuch; Jacob Heinz
Microbial preference for chlorate over perchlorate under simulated shallow subsurface Mars‑like conditions
Scientific Reports. - 14(2024), Art. 11537
April 2024
Lucas Horstmann; Daniel Lipus; Alexander Bartholomäus; Felix Arens; Alessandro Airod; Lars Ganzerte; Pedro Zamorano; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Dirk Wagner
2023
Januar 2024
Ian A. Crawford; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Januar 2024
Laura Jentzsch; Hans-Peter Grossart; Sascha Plewe; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Tobias Goldhammer
November 2023
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Louis N. Irwin; Troy Irwin
Proposed Missions to Collect Samples for Analyzing Evidence of Life in the Venusian Atmosphere
Astrobiology. - 24(2024)4, S. 397 - 406
Oktober 2023
Marina Walther-Antonio; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
The Hypothesis of a “Living Pulse” in Cells
Life. - 13(2023)7, Art. 1506
Oktober 2023
Iva Vilović; Dirk Schulze‑Makuch; René Heller
Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth's biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon
Scientific Reports. - 13(2023), Art. 12663
Oktober 2023
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Louis N. Irwin
Life Unknown: preliminary Scheme for a Magnetotrophic Organism
Life. - 13(2023)7, Art. 1446
Mai 2023
Christof Sager; Alessandro Airo; Kai Mangelsdorf; Felix L. Arens; Cornelia Karger; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Habitability of Polygonal Soils in the Hyper-Arid Atacama Desert After a Simulated Rain Experiment
Journal of Geophysical Research : Biogeosciences. - 128(2023)4, Art. e2022JG007328
2022
Dezember 2022
Christof Sager; Alessandro Airo; Felix L. Arens; Dirk Schulze‑Makuch
Eolian erosion of polygons in the Atacama Desert as a proxy for hyper-arid environments on Earth and beyond
Scientific Reports. - 12(2022), Art. 12394
Dezember 2022
Mickael Baqué; Theresa Backhaus; Joachim Meeßen; Franziska Hanke; Ute Böttger; Nisha Ramkissoon; Karen Olsson-Francis; Michael Baumgärtner; Daniela Billi; Alessia Cassaro; Rosa de la Torre Noetzel; René Demets; Howell Edwards; Pascale Ehrenfreund; Andreas Elsaesser; Bernard Foing; Frédéric Foucher; Björn Huwe; Jasmin Joshi; Natalia Kozyrovska; Peter Lasch; Natuschka Lee; Stefan Leuko; Silvano Onofri; Sieglinde Ott; Claudia Pacelli; Elke Rabbow; Lynn Rothschild; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Laura Selbmann; Paloma Serrano; Ulrich Szewzyk; Cyprien Verseux; Dirk Wagner; Frances Westall; Laura Zucconi; Jean-Pierre P. de Vera
Biosignature stability in space enables their use for life detection on Mars
Science Advances. - 8(2022)36, eabn7412
Dezember 2022
J. Judson Wynne; Timothy N. Titus; Ali-akbar Agha-Mohammadi; Armando Azua-Bustos; Penelope J. Boston; Pablo de León; Cansu Demirel-Floyd; Jo De Waele; Heather Jones; Michael J. Malaska; Ana Z. Miller; Haley M. Sapers; Francesco Sauro; Derek L. Sonderegger; Kyle Uckert; Uland Y. Wong; E. Calvin Alexander Jr.; Leroy Chiao; Glen E. Cushing; John DeDecker; Alberto G. Fairén; Amos Frumkin; Gary L. Harris; Michelle L. Kearney; Laura Kerber; Richard J. Léveillé; Kavya Manyapu; Matteo Massironi; John E. Mylroie; Bogdan P. Onac; Scott E. Parazynski; Charity M. Phillips-Lander; Thomas H. Prettyman; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Robert V. Wagner; William L. Whittaker; Kaj E. Williams
Fundamental Science and Engineering Questions in Planetary Cave Exploration
Journal of Geophysical Research : Planets. - 127(2022)11, Art. e2022JE007194
November 2022
Jacob Heinz ; Joerg Doellinger ; Deborah Maus ; Andy Schneider ; Peter Lasch ; Hans-Peter Grossart ; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Perchlorate-specific proteomic stress responses of Debaryomyces hansenii could enable microbial survival in Martian brines
Environmental Microbiology. - 24(2022)11, 5051 - 5065
November 2022
Jacob Heinz ... Hans-Peter Grossart ... Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Perchlorate-induced proteomic stress responses of Debaryomyces hansenii and their consequences for the habitability of Martian brines
European Planetary Science Congress. - 16(2022), Art. 275
2021
April 2021
Tetyana Milojevic; Rosa De La Torre Noetzel; Oliver Strbak and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Editorial: Presentations at the 4th Workshop of the German Astrobiological Society (DAbG) on Astrobiology: 26–27 September 2019, Vienna, Austria
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. - 7(2021), Art. 634989
August 2020
Felix Kögler; Eva Mahler; Nicole Dopffel; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Ante Borovina; Foppe Visser; Andrea Herold; Hakan Alkan
The Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) potential of Halanaerobiales under dynamic conditions in different porous media
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. -196(2021), Art. 107578
2020
April 2021
Jacob Heinz and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Thiophenes on Mars: biotic or abiotic origin?
Astrobiology. - 20(2020)4, 552-561
April 2021
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; René Heller and Edward Guinan
In search for a planet better than earth: Top contenders for a superhabitable world
Astrobiology. - 20(2020)12, 1394 - 1404
August 2020
Louis N. Irwin; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
The astrobiology of alien worlds: known and unknown forms of life
Universe. - 6(2020)9, 130
August 2020
conference leads: B. L. Carrier; D. W. Beaty; M. A. Meyer; sub-team leads: J. G. Blank; L. Chou; S. DasSarma; D. J. Des Marais; J. L. Eigenbrode; N. Grefenstette; N. L. Lanza; A. C. Schuerger; P. Schwendner; H. D. Smith; C. R. Stoker; J. D. Tarnas; K. D. Webster; sub-team contributors: C. Bakermans; B. K. Baxter; M. S. Bell;S. A. Benner; H. H. Bolivar Torres; P. J. Boston; R. Bruner; B. C. Clark; P. DasSarma; A. E. Engelhart; Z. E. Gallegos ... D. Schulze-Makuch; J. Xu
Mars extant life: What's next? conference report
Astrobiology. - 20(2020)6, S. 785-814
August 2020
Annemiek C. Waajen; Jacob Heinz; Alessandro Airo; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Physicochemical salt solution parameters limit the survival of Planococcus halocryophilus in Martian cryobrines
Frontiers in Microbiology. - 11(2020)art. 1284
April 2020
Jacob Heinz; Tim Krahn; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
September 2025
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Tony Reichhardt
Toward a Reliability Scale for Assessing Reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)
Universe. - 11(2025)10, Art. 326
August 2025
Felix Leo Arens; Jenny Uhl; Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin; Cornelia Karger; Kai Mangelsdorf; Christof Sager; Alessandro Airo; Bernardita Valenzuela; Pedro Zamorano; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Exploring organic compound preservation through long-term in situ experiments in the Atacama desert and the relevance for Mars
Scientific Reports. - 15(2025), Art. 29957
Februar 2025
Max Riekeles; Vincent Bruder; Nicholas Adams; Berke Santos; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Application of chemotactic behavior for life detection
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. - 11(2025), Art. 1490090
November 2024
Felix L. Arens; Alessandro Airo; Christof Sager; Hans-Peter Grossart; Kai Mangelsdorf; Rainer U. Meckenstock; Mark Pannekens; Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin; Jenny Uhl; Bernardita Valenzuela; Pedro Zamorano; Luca Zoccarato; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Microbial response to deliquescence of nitrate-rich soils in the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Biogeosciences. - 21(2024)22, 5305-5320
November 2024
Max Riekeles; Berke Santos; Sherif Al-Morssy Youssef; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Viability and Motility of Escherichia coli Under Elevated Martian Salt Stresses
Life. - 14(2024)12, Art. 1526
November 2024
Alexander Bartholomäus; Steffi Genderjahn; Kai Mangelsdorf; Beate Schneider; Pedro Zamorano; Samuel P. Kounaves; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Dirk Wagner
Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment
Applied and Environmental Microbiology. - 90(2024)12, 1-20
September 2024
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place
Nature Astronomy. - 8(2024), 1208-1210
September 2024
Felix L. Arens; Jenny Feige; Alessandro Airo; Christof Sager; Lutz Hecht; Lucas Horstmann; Felix E.D. Kaufmann; Johannes Lachner; Thomas Neumann; Norbert Nowaczyk; Ferry Schiperski; Peter Steier; Alexandra Stoll; Ulrich Struck; Bernardita Valenzuela; Friedhelm von Blanckenburg; Hella Wittmann; Lukas Wacker; Dirk Wagner; Pedro Zamorano; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Climate variability in a 3.8 Ma old sedimentary record from the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Global and Planetary Change. - 242(2024), 104576
September 2024
Iva Vilović; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; René Heller
Observation of significant photosynthesis in garden cress and cyanobacteria under simulated illumination from a K dwarf star
International Journal of Astrobiology. - 23(2024), e18
August 2024
Fabian Klenner; Mickael Baqué; Kristina Beblo-Vranesevic; Janine Bönigk; Marc S. Boxberg; Bernd Dachwald; Ilya Digel; Andreas Elsaesser; Clemens Espe; Oliver Funke; Ernst Hauber; Dirk Heinen; Florence Hofmann; Lucía Hortal Sánchez; Nozair Khawaja; Maryse Napoleoni; Ana-Catalina Plesa; Frank Postberg; Autun Purser; Tina Rückriemen-Bez; Susanne Schröder; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Stephan Ulamec; Jean-Pierre Paul de Vera
Icy ocean worlds - astrobiology research in Germany
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. - 11(2024), Art. 1422898
August 2024
Piotr Rzymski; Anna Losiak; Jacob Heinz; Marta Szukalska; Ewa Florek; Barbara Poniedziałek; Łukasz Kaczmarek; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Mai 2024
Florian Carlo Fischer; Dirk Schulze‑Makuch; Jacob Heinz
Microbial preference for chlorate over perchlorate under simulated shallow subsurface Mars‑like conditions
Scientific Reports. - 14(2024), Art. 11537
April 2024
Lucas Horstmann; Daniel Lipus; Alexander Bartholomäus; Felix Arens; Alessandro Airod; Lars Ganzerte; Pedro Zamorano; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Dirk Wagner
Januar 2024
Ian A. Crawford; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Januar 2024
Laura Jentzsch; Hans-Peter Grossart; Sascha Plewe; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Tobias Goldhammer
November 2023
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Louis N. Irwin; Troy Irwin
Proposed Missions to Collect Samples for Analyzing Evidence of Life in the Venusian Atmosphere
Astrobiology. - 24(2024)4, S. 397 - 406
Oktober 2023
Marina Walther-Antonio; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
The Hypothesis of a “Living Pulse” in Cells
Life. - 13(2023)7, Art. 1506
Oktober 2023
Iva Vilović; Dirk Schulze‑Makuch; René Heller
Variations in climate habitability parameters and their effect on Earth's biosphere during the Phanerozoic Eon
Scientific Reports. - 13(2023), Art. 12663
Oktober 2023
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Louis N. Irwin
Life Unknown: preliminary Scheme for a Magnetotrophic Organism
Life. - 13(2023)7, Art. 1446
Mai 2023
Christof Sager; Alessandro Airo; Kai Mangelsdorf; Felix L. Arens; Cornelia Karger; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Habitability of Polygonal Soils in the Hyper-Arid Atacama Desert After a Simulated Rain Experiment
Journal of Geophysical Research : Biogeosciences. - 128(2023)4, Art. e2022JG007328
Dezember 2022
Christof Sager; Alessandro Airo; Felix L. Arens; Dirk Schulze‑Makuch
Eolian erosion of polygons in the Atacama Desert as a proxy for hyper-arid environments on Earth and beyond
Scientific Reports. - 12(2022), Art. 12394
Dezember 2022
Mickael Baqué; Theresa Backhaus; Joachim Meeßen; Franziska Hanke; Ute Böttger; Nisha Ramkissoon; Karen Olsson-Francis; Michael Baumgärtner; Daniela Billi; Alessia Cassaro; Rosa de la Torre Noetzel; René Demets; Howell Edwards; Pascale Ehrenfreund; Andreas Elsaesser; Bernard Foing; Frédéric Foucher; Björn Huwe; Jasmin Joshi; Natalia Kozyrovska; Peter Lasch; Natuschka Lee; Stefan Leuko; Silvano Onofri; Sieglinde Ott; Claudia Pacelli; Elke Rabbow; Lynn Rothschild; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Laura Selbmann; Paloma Serrano; Ulrich Szewzyk; Cyprien Verseux; Dirk Wagner; Frances Westall; Laura Zucconi; Jean-Pierre P. de Vera
Biosignature stability in space enables their use for life detection on Mars
Science Advances. - 8(2022)36, eabn7412
Dezember 2022
J. Judson Wynne; Timothy N. Titus; Ali-akbar Agha-Mohammadi; Armando Azua-Bustos; Penelope J. Boston; Pablo de León; Cansu Demirel-Floyd; Jo De Waele; Heather Jones; Michael J. Malaska; Ana Z. Miller; Haley M. Sapers; Francesco Sauro; Derek L. Sonderegger; Kyle Uckert; Uland Y. Wong; E. Calvin Alexander Jr.; Leroy Chiao; Glen E. Cushing; John DeDecker; Alberto G. Fairén; Amos Frumkin; Gary L. Harris; Michelle L. Kearney; Laura Kerber; Richard J. Léveillé; Kavya Manyapu; Matteo Massironi; John E. Mylroie; Bogdan P. Onac; Scott E. Parazynski; Charity M. Phillips-Lander; Thomas H. Prettyman; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Robert V. Wagner; William L. Whittaker; Kaj E. Williams
Fundamental Science and Engineering Questions in Planetary Cave Exploration
Journal of Geophysical Research : Planets. - 127(2022)11, Art. e2022JE007194
November 2022
Jacob Heinz ; Joerg Doellinger ; Deborah Maus ; Andy Schneider ; Peter Lasch ; Hans-Peter Grossart ; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Perchlorate-specific proteomic stress responses of Debaryomyces hansenii could enable microbial survival in Martian brines
Environmental Microbiology. - 24(2022)11, 5051 - 5065
November 2022
Jacob Heinz ... Hans-Peter Grossart ... Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Perchlorate-induced proteomic stress responses of Debaryomyces hansenii and their consequences for the habitability of Martian brines
European Planetary Science Congress. - 16(2022), Art. 275
April 2021
Tetyana Milojevic; Rosa De La Torre Noetzel; Oliver Strbak and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Editorial: Presentations at the 4th Workshop of the German Astrobiological Society (DAbG) on Astrobiology: 26–27 September 2019, Vienna, Austria
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences. - 7(2021), Art. 634989
August 2020
Felix Kögler; Eva Mahler; Nicole Dopffel; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Ante Borovina; Foppe Visser; Andrea Herold; Hakan Alkan
The Microbial Enhanced Oil Recovery (MEOR) potential of Halanaerobiales under dynamic conditions in different porous media
Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering. -196(2021), Art. 107578
April 2021
Jacob Heinz and Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Thiophenes on Mars: biotic or abiotic origin?
Astrobiology. - 20(2020)4, 552-561
April 2021
Dirk Schulze-Makuch; René Heller and Edward Guinan
In search for a planet better than earth: Top contenders for a superhabitable world
Astrobiology. - 20(2020)12, 1394 - 1404
August 2020
Louis N. Irwin; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
The astrobiology of alien worlds: known and unknown forms of life
Universe. - 6(2020)9, 130
August 2020
conference leads: B. L. Carrier; D. W. Beaty; M. A. Meyer; sub-team leads: J. G. Blank; L. Chou; S. DasSarma; D. J. Des Marais; J. L. Eigenbrode; N. Grefenstette; N. L. Lanza; A. C. Schuerger; P. Schwendner; H. D. Smith; C. R. Stoker; J. D. Tarnas; K. D. Webster; sub-team contributors: C. Bakermans; B. K. Baxter; M. S. Bell;S. A. Benner; H. H. Bolivar Torres; P. J. Boston; R. Bruner; B. C. Clark; P. DasSarma; A. E. Engelhart; Z. E. Gallegos ... D. Schulze-Makuch; J. Xu
Mars extant life: What's next? conference report
Astrobiology. - 20(2020)6, S. 785-814
August 2020
Annemiek C. Waajen; Jacob Heinz; Alessandro Airo; Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Physicochemical salt solution parameters limit the survival of Planococcus halocryophilus in Martian cryobrines
Frontiers in Microbiology. - 11(2020)art. 1284
April 2020
Jacob Heinz; Tim Krahn; Dirk Schulze-Makuch