The Early Earth and Titan, the largest satellite of Saturn are my main research objects.
We study their interest for prebiotic chemistry through atmospheric reactivity.
The atmospheric chemical systems
are experimentally simulated, using the platform developed in LATMOS.
The plasma reactor uses a Radio-Frequency discharge to trigger reactivity in gas-mixtures simulating the main composition of the atmospheres. The efficiency of the energy deposition in the reactive volume enables to produce large molecules, and even solid organic aerosols, named "tholins". Tholins are laboratory analogues of planetary atmospheric aerosols.
