Andro Rios

Affiliation: Blue Marble Space Institute and San José State University

Division: Space Science and Astrobiology (ST)

Branch: Exobiology Branch (STX)

Education

Ph.D. Chemistry, University of California, San Diego

B.S. Chemistry California State University, Sacramento

Research Interests

organic chemistry · prebiotic chemistry · astrobiology · chemical education · metabolic diseases

Publications

1. Rios, A.C., Impact synthesis of the RNA bases, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2015, Invited Commentary, 112, 643 – 644.

• Cooper, G., Rios. A.C., Enantiomer excess of rare and common sugar derivatives in carbonaceous meteorites, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2016, 113, E3322 – E3331.

• Cooper, G., Rios. A.C., Nuevo, M. Monosaccharides and Their Derivatives in Carbonaceous Meteorites: A Scenario for Their Synthesis and Onset of Enantiomeric Excesses Special Issue “Meteorites and the Origin of Life”, Life, 2018, 8, 36 – 64.

• Weber, A.L. and Rios, A.C., Imidazolium-Catalyzed Synthesis of an Imidazolium Catalyst, Origin of life and Evolution of Biospheres, 2019, 49, 199 – 211.

• Rios, A.C., Bera, P., Moreno, J.M., Cooper, G., Pyruvate Aldol Condensation Product: A Metabolite that Escaped Synthetic Preparation for Over a Century. ACS OMEGA, 2020, 5, 15063 – 15068.

• Ditzler, M., Rios, A. C., Nuevo, M., Popovic, M., Mancinelli, R., Broddrick, J. T., Weber, A. L., Beyond targeted searches: the need for system-level approaches to understanding the connection between astrochemistry and the emergence of life. Bulletin of the AAS, 2021, 53 (4) https://doi.org/10.3847/25c2cfeb.7a06f84d

Awards & Honors

2020 – 2022      Scialog “Signatures of Life in the Universe” Fellow 

2014 – 2016      NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship