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Christopher House

Christopher H. House

Email: chh10@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-8802
Office Address: 218 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
Title: Professor
Unit: Department of Geosciences
Webpage: https://www.geosc.psu.edu/directory/christopher-house

Research Interests:

  • Microbial diversity and cultivation
  • Microbial paleontology
  • Molecular evolution and genomics
  • Astrobiology
  • Geomicrobiology

About:

Christopher House is the director of Penn State’s Planetary System Science Center (PSSC). He is a member of the NASA-funded Astrobiology Center for Isotopologue Research (ACIR) and the NASA NFOLD research network through the Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures project headed by Dr. Sarah Stewart Johnson at Georgetown University.