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Humans on Mars Initiative

Humans on Mars Initiative

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    Humans on Mars

    Pathways to a long-term sustainable exploration

    © Joris Wegner, University of Bremen
  • Portrait of Lucio Colombi Ciacchi.

    Lucio Colombi Ciacchi

    “Learning how to produce metals and other materials on Mars will promote a transition from fire-driven to electricity-driven and CO₂-emission-free materials engineering for the first time ever.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Kurosch Rezwan working in the laboratory.

    Kurosch Rezwan

    “Thinking the unthinkable is what drives me. Mars is the perfect place for that.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Researcher Anastasyia Tönjes at work.

    Anastasiya Tönjes

    “Another planet means other materials. For me, as a materials scientist, it is a big challenge. With ‘Humans on Mars‘ I can explore the future today.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Sven Kerzenmacher working on an experiment.

    Sven Kerzenmacher

    “Martian reality will force us to find radically new approaches in coping with scarcity and foster resource efficiency. This mindset will also help shaping sustainable life on Earth.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Katharina Brinkert at work.

    Katharina Brinkert

    “The exploration of space and protection of Earth go hand-in hand: the complementary approach of the Martian Mindset shows us how much space and Earth science can learn and benefit from each other.”

    © Lukas Klose, University of Bremen

  • Cyprien Verseux

    “The Humans on Mars Initiative is an exciting opportunity to combine my expertise in space biology with that of others in fields far apart – and ultimately, to help make Mars exploration sustainable.”

  • Lutz Mädler

    “The Humans on Mars Mindset requires an engineering vision into a world of unknowns and constrains - not far from what we have on earth, but more extreme and less complex at the same time.”

    © Jonas Ginter
  • Frank Kirchner next to a robot on Moon like surface

    Frank Kirchner

    “Humans on Mars tackles an extremely important challenge with respect to robotics research, it has the potential to achieve mayor breakthrough towards robots that are fit for everyday life.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Daniel Meyer

    Daniel Meyer

    “The unique boundary conditions on Mars require to re-think manufacturing in a multi-disciplinary approach which will lead to exciting developments also applicable to the challenges on Earth.”

    © Leibniz-IWT
  • Researcher Christiane Heinecke.

    Christiane Heinicke

    “We set out to find ground-breakingly new answers to sustaining humans on Mars. I love the interdisciplinary challenge and the inevitable implications for our life on Earth.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Professor Kirsten Tracht at work.

    Kirsten Tracht

    “Mars habitat planning enables a radical new paradigm of producing with sustainability and full circularity from product design, material sourcing to maintenance and end-of-life.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier
  • Marc Avila, speaker of the initiative Humans on Mars.

    Marc Avila

    ”Mars has extremely limited natural resources. Under the premise of scarcity, our cross-disciplinary team researches how to sustain humans on Mars and applies the lessons learnt to Earth.”

    © Patrick Pollmeier

Humans on Mars

Wir untersuchen Wege zu einer nachhaltigen, menschlichen Erkundung des Mars in sieben vom Land Bremen geförderten Projekten. Die Projekte konzentrieren sich auf menschliche Aspekte, wie die Interaktion und Kommunikation zwischen Menschen und gemischten Mensch-Maschine-Teams, auf Habitate und Lebenserhaltungssysteme sowie auf die verantwortungsvolle Gewinnung lokaler Ressourcen für die In-situ-Produktion von Verbrauchsmaterialien und Ersatzteilen.

 

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Katharina Brinkert steht im Hörsaal vor ihren Schülerinnen und Schülern.
© ZARM, Universität Bremen

20 Jahre Kinder-Uni – Katharina Brinkert war für Humans on Mars dabei.

Die Professorin für Human Space Exploration Technologies am Zentrum für angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (ZARM) stand diesmal vor einem deutlichen jüngeren Publikum als sonst und bot Einblicke in ihre Forschung und die Initiative Humans on Mars.

Camilla Tossi steht vor ihrem Publikum in einer Bar.
© Science goes Public

Was atmen Astronaut:innen?

Dieser Frage ging Camilla Tossi bei Science goes PUBlic nach.

Marc Avila vor dem GraviTower Bremen Pro, mit dem die Marsgravitation simuliert werden kann.
© Patrick Pollmeier, Universität Bremen

„Interdisziplinarität ist unser Markenzeichen“

Professor Marc Avila über den Exzellenzantrag „The Martian Mindset“

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Publication highlights

Anaerobic digestion of cyanobacterial biomass for plant fertilizer production on Mars
© 2025, The Authors, licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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Anaerobic digestion of cyanobacterial biomass for plant fertilizer production on Mars

Tiago P. Ramalho, Antje Siol, Sven Kerzenmacher, Cyprien Verseux, Guillaume Pillot

Bioresource Technology 427 (2025): 132383

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2025.132383

A sustained presence on Mars requires the production of food on site, but farming is limited by the local availability of…

Impact of Gas Bubble
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Impact of Gas Bubble Evolution Dynamics on Electrochemical Reaction Overpotentials in Water Electrolyser Systems

Byron Ross, Sophia Haussener, Katharina Brinkert

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 129 (2025): 4383-4397

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.5c00220

This study establishes a theoretical framework to elucidate the impact of gas bubble evolution dynamics on the reaction overpotentials in…

Illustration Hände reichen sich
© Joris Wegner, Universität Bremen

Toward an empathy-based trust in human-otheroid relations

Abootaleb Safdari

AI & SOCIETY (2024)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02155-z

The primary aim of this paper is twofold: firstly, to argue that we can enter into relation of trust with robots and AI systems (automata); and secondly, to provide a comprehensive description of the underlying…

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