Lucía Hortal Sánchez

About

Astrobiologist and expeditioner.
PhD candidate at Freie Universität Berlin in the Planetary Sciences and Remote Sensing group.

Organic Chemist (Alma mater Universidad Autónoma de Madrid).

Employment

• Freie Universität Berlin Research assistant
  2024 - Present
• Freie Universität Berlin Science Coordinator in Polar Campaign
  2023 - 2024
• Think Health GmbH Laboratory Technicial and Health Board member
  2020 - 2021

Education

• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Masters in Organic Chemistry
  2018 - 2019
• Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Degree in Chemistry
  2014 - 2018

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (11)

• Protonation-Induced Chemical Transformations in Mass Spectrometry: Implications for Detecting Complex Organics on Icy Moons
  Lucía Hortal Sánchez, Maryse Napoleoni, Ernesto Brunet +7 more
  ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2026 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.5c00363
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• Detecting Fe (II) and Fe (III) in Ice Grains with Mass Spectrometry: Implications for the Geochemistry and Habitability of Europa and Enceladus
  2024 DOI: 10.5194/epsc2024-974
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• Laboratory characterization of hydrothermally processed oligopeptides in ice grains emitted by Enceladus and Europa
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2024 DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2023.0201
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• Probing the Oxidation State of Ocean Worlds with SUDA: Fe (ii) and Fe (iii) in Ice Grains
  The Planetary Science Journal 2024 DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ad2462
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• Mass Spectral Properties of Hydrothermally Processed Triglycine (GGG) in Ice Grains Emitted by Enceladus and Europa
  2024 DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17487
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• Laboratory Investigation of Hydrothermally Processed Triglycine: Implications for Organic Enriched Enceladean Ice Grains
  AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts 2023
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• Mass Spectrometric Fingerprints of Organic Compounds in Salt-Rich Ice Grains: Implications for Europa Clipper
  AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts 2023
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• Mass Spectrometric Fingerprints of Organic Compounds in Sulfate-Rich Ice Grains: Implications for Europa Clipper
  ACS Earth and Space Chemistry 2023 DOI: 10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00098
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• Discriminating Aromatic Parent Compounds and Their Derivative Isomers in Ice Grains From Enceladus and Europa Using a Laboratory Analogue for Spaceborne Mass Spectrometers
  Earth and Space Science 2023 DOI: 10.1029/2022ea002807
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• On the organic material emitted by Enceladus
  44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July 2022
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• A dual perspective on the microwave-assisted synthesis of HCN polymers towards the chemical evolution and design of functional materials
  Scientific Reports 2020 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-79112-5
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