Background header image

Faculty

Christopher House (Photo)

Christopher H. House

Email: chh10@psu.edu
Phone: 814-865-8802
Office Address: 218 Earth and Engineering Sciences Building
Title: Professor
Unit: Department of Geosciences

Research Interests:

  • Microbial diversity and cultivation
  • Microbial paleontology
  • Molecular evolution and genomics
  • Astrobiology
  • Geomicrobiology

About:

Christopher House is the director of Penn State’s Planetary System Science Center (PSSC). He is a member of the NASA-funded Astrobiology Center for Isotopologue Research (ACIR) and the NASA NFOLD research network through the Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures project headed by Dr. Sarah Stewart Johnson at Georgetown University.

Background footer image