Sara Walker: The Origin of Life ​(#219)

Sara Walker is an astrobiologist and theoretical physicist
interested in the origin of life and how to find life on other
worlds. She is most interested in whether or not there are “laws of
life’ related to how information structures the physical world that
could universally describe life here on Earth and on other planets.
Walker is deputy director of the pioneering Beyond Center for
Fundamental Concepts in Science, which is devoted to confronting
the big questions of science and philosophy.  She is Associate
Director of the ASU-Santa Fe Institute Center for Biosocial Complex
Systems and Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space
Exploration. She is also Co-founder of the astrobiology-themed
social website SAGANet.org, and is a member of the Board of
Directors of Blue Marble Space. She is active in public engagement
in science, with appearances at the World Science Festival and on
"Through the Wormhole" and NPR's Science Friday. Sara’s provocative
paper: Origins of Life: A Problem for Physics can be found here
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