Martin Homann

Dr. Homann received his MSc in Geology from the University of Potsdam, Germany, in 2010 and his PhD in Geobiology from the Free University of Berlin, Germany, in 2016. After three years of postdoctoral research at the University of Western Brittan in France, he worked as an Assistant Professor in Sedimentology at University College London until the end of 2022. Following a brief appointment as a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology from 2023 to 2024, he became a Research Investigator at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science in 2025 and currently also works as a Senior Consultant for Amentum Ltd.

His research focuses on the Archean biosphere—specifically, the environments where microbial life thrived billions of years ago and the morphological and geochemical traces it left behind in Earth’s oldest sedimentary archives. He uses a multidisciplinary approach that combines field-generated data with lab-based observations, experiments, and geochemical analysis.