EPISODE · Feb 6, 2026 · 1H 25M
What it Will Take to Settle Mars, with Natuschka Lee
from Institute for Futures Studies · host Institutet för framtidsstudier
What could be more futuristic on Earth than to discuss about mankind’s possibility to become a multiplanetary species in the universe? Tech visionaries like Elon Musk claim that it would become possible to send 1 million people to planet Mars within the next 2 decades. In response to this, 59 researchers, representing multidisciplinary fields from astronomy, biology, engineering, medicine, law, economy, AI, politics to humanities, have recently published a book that critically and constructively reviews the current visions on colonization of Mars. Dr. Natuschka Lee, one of the contributing researchers, will present a summary of this book and initiate discussions from various perspectives.Research seminar with Natuschka Lee, microbiologist and an astrobiologist, with a PhD degree in Biotechnology from Lund University, with many years of research experience in Germany and in Sweden. She is a former fellow of Swedish Collegium of Advanced Science and the Alexander von der Humboldt Foundation. Today, she is a researcher at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala.If you wish to receive our newsletters, and invitations to our seminars, subscribe here.
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