Apply For PCE3 (Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments Consortium) Early Career Committee

Deadline: August 15th, 2025

PCE3 is soliciting applications from all interested parties, including students and post-docs, for the PCE3 Early Career Committee!

PCE3 https://www.prebioticchem.org/ (Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments Consortium) is a community of researchers working to transform the origins-of-life field by breaking down linguistic and ideological barriers and enhancing communication across the disciplinary divide between early Earth geoscientists and prebiotic chemists. Through proactive mentoring, outreach, and community-wide engagement, we aim to broaden participation in the field, support early career scientists, and create pathways for fully integrating a diverse range of approaches and ideas. We seek to cultivate a new paradigm in which models for the emergence of prebiotic pathways are grounded in realistic planetary conditions, and the dynamics and constraints of early Earth environments are fully incorporated into origins hypotheses.

The aims of the PCE3 Early Career Committee are to (a) promote the development of the next generation researchers and scientists, (b) increase their visibility and engagement through community activities, and (c) identify issues, challenges and opportunities specific to early career individuals and propose action items.

Examples of activities include (but not limited to):

• nurture closer ties with other early career scientists and with a network of researchers pursuing similarly-themed work,
• bring attention of the community to issues that are specific or important to early career scientists and propose possible action items,
• propose new PCE3 initiatives and identify enabling resources that NASA makes available to the RCNs, and
• participate with other RCNs, in that capacity to propose and lead PCE3 initiatives

To apply to the PCE3 Early Career Committee, please send a .zip folder with the following items:

• a resume or CV,
• a brief statement of interest (less than 1 page), including a description of your specific goals or ideas for outreach,
• A letter of support from your mentor (required if you are not an independent investigator, e.g., if you are a student or postdoc).

Please email your application to [email protected], with a subject line of “PCE3 Early Career Committee.”

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