The ISSI Astrobiology Team is approved in 2015 and the main goal of the team is to help to accelerate the growth of astrobiolgy in China. The team had a first team meeting in Bern between April 11 and 13, 2016.
The team members are:
| Institute | Team Member | Main Expertise |
| Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, France | Muriel Gargaud | Astrophysics and education/outreach in astrobiology |
| DLR, Germany | Lee Grenfell | Exoplanet atmosphere photochemistry |
| School of Physics, Peking University, China | Yongyun Hu | Climate and habitability of exoplanets |
| University of Liege, Belgium | Emmanuelle Javaux | Early life traces and evolution, biosignatures, habitability |
| Space Research Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences | Helmut Lammer | Atmospheric escape, evolution of atmospheres, habitability |
| University Paris XI, France | Alain Leger | Space missions able to search for exoplanets and biosignatures |
| University of Science & Technology of China | Wei Leng | Tectonic evolution impact on planet habitability |
| The University of Hong Kong | Yi-Liang Li | Mineral records of the origin and evolution of life |
| Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada | Daniele L. Pinti | Isotope geochemistry; isotopic biosignatures |
| Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, China | Feng Tian
(project coordinator) |
Evolution and habitability of planets |
| School of Environment, Tsinghua University, China | Yunfeng Yang | Microbial engines of earth’s biogeochemical cycles |
| School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University, China | Ting Zhu | Origins of life, nucleic acids biochemistry |
The team is also supported by the following scientists:
| Institute | Supporter | Main Expertise |
| University of Bern, Switzerland | Willy Benz | Exoplanetary Science |
| University of Edinburgh, UK | Charles Cockell | Life in extreme environments, geomicrobiology |
| DLR, Germany | Gerda Horneck | Microbe in Space |
| Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel | Addy Pross | Origin of Life |
| University Paris-Est Créteil, France | Francois
Raulin |
Planetary exobiology & space instrumentation |
| Technische Universität Berlin, Germany | Dirk Schulze-Makuch | Planetary Habitability and the Co-Evolution of Life and its Environment |
| Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux (CNRS, Univ. Of Bordeaux), France | Franck Selsis | Exoplanet Atmosphere Photochemistry |
| Virginia Institute of Technology, United States of America | Shuhai Xiao | Early Earth Environments |
| Xiamen University, China | Yufen Zhao | Origin of Life |
A summmary of the first meeting will be posted soon. The 2nd team meeting is scheduled to be held in Beijing in the week of April 23rd, 2017.