Fabian Klenner

Fabian Klenner is an Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Riverside (UCR). His research focus lies on the exploration of icy moons in the Solar System, in particular Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa. He is interested in geochemical processes happening on these moons as well as the detection of potential life beyond Earth.

Fabian is an affiliate of NASA's Europa Clipper mission and involved in the planning and design of a potential future Enceladus mission. He is Co-Investigator of BioSigN, an ESA-led experiment to be performed on the International Space Station. Fabian's work is also relevant to the past Cassini mission and he is involved in ESA's CALICO, a potential mission to dwarf planet Ceres. He is member of various learned societies, including his co-leadership of the Ocean Worlds and Icy Moons working group of the German Astrobiology Society.

Before accepting his current position at UCR in 2025, he held Postdoctoral researcher positions at the University of Washington and Freie Universität Berlin (FUB). He received his Ph.D. from FUB in 2021. He studied Earth Sciences at Heidelberg University (M.Sc. and B.Sc.).