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José Carlos Aponte

Google Scholar ID: HuvQj-AAAAAJ

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

AstrochemistryOrganic ChemistryNatural Products

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Academic Achievements

2022 Robert H. Goddard Honor Exceptional Achievement Award – Science, as a member of The Consortium for Hayabusa2 Analysis of Organic Solubles team.
2022 Special Thanks And Recognition (STAR) Award, NASA Goddard.
2020 Robert H. Goddard Honor Exceptional Achievement Award – Science (awarded June 2021).
Group Achievement Award – OSIRIS-REx Mission team (April 2018).
Asteroid (2005 EY161) renamed (117652) Joséaponte in October 2017.
2016 Annual Peer Award, Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard.
NASA Early Career Fellowship ($100K startup funds), Planetary Science Division, ROSES Emerging Worlds (Feb 2015).
2014 Student and Early-Career Scientist Travel Grant, ISSOL – International Astrobiology Society.

Background

Astrochemist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, working in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory.
Research interests include extraterrestrial organic compounds and solar system astrochemistry.
Develops analytical methods to characterize, quantify, and measure isotopic and enantiomeric signatures of small organic compounds (e.g., amines, monocarboxylic acids, amino acids) in carbonaceous chondrites.
Investigates the role of these organics in the origins of life on Earth and potentially elsewhere.
Scientific Co-Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Goddard Center for Astrobiology.
Collaborator on the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission science team.

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