Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology
Shirwan Al-Mufti obtained his BSc in Physics from the University of Mosul in Iraq in 1968, his MSc in Applied Optics from the University of Reading in the UK in 1974, and a Diploma in Astronomy from the University of Edinburgh in 1980. He began working with Professor Wickramasinghe and Sir Fred Hoyle in 1981 and obtained his PhD from Cardiff in 1985. Al-Mufti’s laboratory work on the infrared spectra of biomolecules, and of desiccated bacteria contributed significantly to the theory of cometary panspermia and the identification of bacteria and biological degradation products in space. He was an Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University until 2010.
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