Team:UNIK Copenhagen/Team

Meet the team

Team Members

MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY

ADAM PETERSEN
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Studies a bachelor degree at Center for Synthetic Biology and specializing in protein purification. At SpaceMoss Adam primarely work with the DNA, which is inserted into the moss

BIO
TECHNOLOGY

JONATHAN ARNESEN
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Studies a bachelor degree at Center for Syntethic Biology with focus on plant biology. Jonathan is behind large parts og the work conducted in the manipulation of moss in SpaceMoss’ Green Lab.

ASTRO
PHYSICS

JOPHIEL WIIS
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Jophiel studies a masters degree in astrophysics with a focus on cosmology. At SpaceMoss, his focus is on Red Lab, working on experiments which simulate the conditions on Mars. He also works with outreach and film editing.

MOLECULAR BIOMEDICINE

JONAS ESLBORG
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Studies a bachelor degree at Center for Synthetic Biology. Jonas has experience with cells from mammals and NMR-spectroskopi. In spacemoss he primarely works with the transformation of moss and purification of plasmid in E.coli

PLANETARY
PHYSICS

CHRISTINA TOLDBO
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Studies a master degree in Astrophysics with focus on space travel and human exploration of the solar system. She is primarily working with outreach and web development, as well as designing experiments to test if the moss has obtained the wished ability.

GRAPHIC
DESIGN

BÁRÐUR FRÍI MIKLADAL
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Bárður is from the faroe islands. He studies and works with graphic design. Bárður is SpaceMoss' photographer and designer and he is working on a new logo for SpaceMoss as well as optimizing our poster for our presentation at MIT in Boston.

ORGANIZATIONAL
INNOVATION

DOMENIC MANGANELLI
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Dom has a bachelor degree in economy, is from Boston, USA and studies social science at Copenhagen Business School. In SpaceMoss he works with webdesign as well as building the experiments that test our moss in Red Lab.

BIO
BUSINESS

AKHIL SASIDHARAN PILLAI
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Akhil is from India and holds a master degree in Industrial Biotechnology as well as one in Business Administration. At SpaceMoss Akhil has primarely worked with branding and funding as well at helping with the moss transformations in Green Lab.

BIO
PHYSICS

VICTORIA SOSNOVTSEVA
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Victoria is born in Russia and studies a bachelor degree which combines biophysics and astrophysics. Victoria has participated both in the moss transformations and the subsequent experiments testing the results in Red Lab.