The highly-successful hybrid-format Inaugural Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds Meeting took place on 7th to 13th November 2022 in Edinburgh, UK. This international conference was Chaired by Dr. Amy J. V. Riches, supported by a dedicated and exceptional interdisciplinary steering committee of global spread, and hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences. The Inaugural Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds Meeting addressed two main themes:

1. The origin of habitable bodies in and beyond our Solar System

2. Space exploration and its governance: priorities, visions, concerns, and ambitions

The 2022 Inaugural Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds Meeting hosted by the University of Edinburgh’s School of Geosciences has realised a broad range of lasting impacts and has set-the-stage to seize further opportunities beneficial to international strategic outlooks. PRL hosts the next meeting in this series by combining it to broader research themes of Planets and Exoplanets. 

Forming and Exploring Habitable Worlds

Core Team Members

Amy J. V. Riches, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Christian Schröder, University of Stirling, UK.

Megha Bhatt, Physical Research Laboratory, India.

Mario Fischer-Gödde, Universität zu Köln, Germany.

Eiichiro Kokubo, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.

Elishevah van Kooten, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Liton Majumdar, NISER, India

Chris McKay, NASA Ames Research Center, USA.

Millarca Valenzuela Picón, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile.

Margarita Safonova, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India

Suman Saha, Instituto de Estudios Astrofísicos, UDP, Chile

Neeraj Srivastava, Physical Research Laboratory, India.