Dirk Schulze‐Makuch

Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries — Germany

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

45h-index6.8kcitations405works4.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Planetary Science and Exploration(198), Astro and Planetary Science(133), Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life(131), Geology and Paleoclimatology Research(38), Origins and Evolution of Life(38)

Publications404 total

Toward a Reliability Scale for Assessing Reports of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP)
Universe·2025Open Access
Exploring organic compound preservation through long-term in situ experiments in the Atacama desert and the relevance for Mars
Scientific Reports·2025Open Access
Application of chemotactic behavior for life detection
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Investigating potential Martian habitats: survival of the halotolerant yeast <i>Debaryomyces hansenii</i> in deliquescence-driven brines
International Journal of Astrobiology·2025Open Access
Microbial response to deliquescence of nitrate-rich soils in the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Biogeosciences·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Viability and Motility of Escherichia coli Under Elevated Martian Salt Stresses
Life·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Inside the Atacama Desert: uncovering the living microbiome of an extreme environment
Applied and Environmental Microbiology·2024· 16 citedOpen Access
We may be looking for Martian life in the wrong place
Nature Astronomy·2024· 3 cited
Climate variability in a 3.8 Ma old sedimentary record from the hyperarid Atacama Desert
Global and Planetary Change·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
Icy ocean worlds - astrobiology research in Germany
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Perchlorates on Mars: Occurrence and implications for putative life on the Red Planet
Icarus·2024· 25 citedOpen Access
Supplementary material to "Microbial response to deliquescence of nitrate-rich soils in the hyperarid Atacama Desert"
2024Open Access
Microbial response to deliquescence of nitrate-rich soils in the hyperarid Atacama Desert
2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Habitability of the Martian Shallow Subsurface: Microbial Preference for Chlorate Over Perchlorate under Mars-like Conditions
2024Open Access
Observation of Significant Photosynthesis in Garden Cress and Cyanobacteria under Simulated Illumination from a K Dwarf Star
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Microbial preference for chlorate over perchlorate under simulated shallow subsurface Mars-like conditions
Scientific Reports·2024· 6 citedOpen Access
Persistent microbial communities in hyperarid subsurface habitats of the Atacama Desert: Insights from intracellular DNA analysis
PNAS Nexus·2024· 14 citedOpen Access
Astrobiological Constraints on Astrophysics
Journal of Modern Physics·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Observation of significant photosynthesis in garden cress and cyanobacteria under simulated illumination from a K dwarf star
International Journal of Astrobiology·2024· 7 citedOpen Access
Is the apparent absence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations down to the zoo hypothesis or nothing?
Nature Astronomy·2023· 10 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Alberto González Fairén(16), Louis N. Irwin(11), Alfonso F. Dávila(9), J. M. Dohm(9), Victor R. Baker(6), Jean‐Pierre de Vera(5), Jacob Heinz(5), Christopher P. McKay(5), J. A. P. Rodriguez(5), Dirk Wagner(4), Wolfgang Fink(4), Samuel P. Kounaves(3), Alessandro Airo(3), Janosch Schirmack(3), David Grinspoon(3), Ute Böttger(3), Charles S. Cockell(3), Lynn J. Rothschild(3), Francès Westall(3), W. V. Boynton(3)