Cole Mathis

Cole Mathis is an assistant professor in the School of Complex Adaptive Systems and in the Biodesign Center for Biocomputation, Security and Society. He is a physicist and astrobiologist who studies the origin and nature of life on Earth as well as the possibility of life beyond our planet. The focus of his research is connecting theoretical concepts with experiments and empirical validation, with the goal of helping create de novo life forms in the lab.