Mautner served as associate and assistant professor at the Rockefeller University, adjunct professor and senior fellow at the University of Canterbury, Marsden Fellow and Senior Research Fellow Lincoln University, and Research Chemist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He served on the editorial boards of "Space Science and Resources" and "Astrobiology", and member of the Chemistry Board and Space Settlement Board of the Lifeboat Foundation.
In 1995, he founded the volunteer-based The Panspermia Society (Society for Life in Space - SOLIS),[1] that aims to expand life in space by directed panspermia missions. The SOLIS program is motivated by biotic ethics that value our family of self-propagating gene/protein life, and panbiotic ethics that seeks to start life in new solar systems.
Some of Mautner's published writing:
Solvation of the guanidinium ion in pure aqueous environments: A theoretical study from an “Ab initio”-based polarizable force field (2017) C Houriez, M Meot-Ner, M Masella The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 121 (50), 11219-11228
Space ecology (2016) MN Mautner, S Park Star Ark: A Living, Self-Sustaining Spaceship, 255-286
Extrapolating single organic ion solvation thermochemistry from simulated water nanodroplets (2016) JP Coles, C Houriez, M Meot-Ner, M Masella The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 120 (35), 9402-9409
Simulated solvation of organic ions II: Study of linear alkylated carboxylate ions in water nanodrops and in liquid water. Propensity for air/water interface and convergence to … (2015) C Houriez, M Meot-Ner, M Masella The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 119 (36), 12094-12107
What is the structure of the naphthalene–benzene heterodimer radical cation? Binding energy, charge delocalization, and unexpected charge-transfer interaction in stacked dimer … (2015) IK Attah, SP Platt, M Meot-Ner, MS El-Shall, R Peverati, M Head-Gordon The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6 (7), 1111-1118
Protonated polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocyclics: proton affinities, polarizabilities, and atomic and ring charges of 1–5-ring ions (2015) RGAR Maclagan, S Gronert, M Meot-Ner The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 119 (1), 127-139
Protonation energies of 1–5-ring polycyclic aromatic nitrogen heterocyclics: Comparing experiment and theory (2015) A Wiseman, LA Sims, R Snead, S Gronert, RGAR Maclagan, M Meot-Ner The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 119 (1), 118-126
In situ biological resources: Soluble nutrients and electrolytes in carbonaceous asteroids/meteorites. Implications for astroecology and human space populations (2014) MN Mautner Planetary and Space Science 104, 234-243
Hydrogen bonding of the naphthalene radical cation to water and methanol and attachment of the naphthalene ion to extended hydrogen bonding chains (2014) IK Attah, SP Platt, M Meot-Ner, MS El-Shall, SG Aziz, AO Alyoubi Chemical Physics Letters 613, 45-53
Simulated solvation of organic ions: Protonated methylamines in water nanodroplets. Convergence toward bulk properties and the absolute proton solvation enthalpy (2014) C Houriez, M Meot-Ner, M Masella The Journal of Physical Chemistry B 118 (23), 6222-6233
Astroecology, cosmo-ecology, and the future of life (2014) MN Mautner Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 83 (4), 449
Seeding the universe with life: securing our cosmological future (2010) MN Mautner Journal of Cosmology 5, 982-994
Life‐centered ethics, and the human future in space (2009) MN Mautner Bioethics 23 (8), 433-440
Meteorite Models of Astrochemistry and Astrobiology
1. Gas/Grain Interactions and Catalysis in the Solar Nebula (2008) MN Mautner Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 1405, 8019
2. Soluble Carbon and Electrolytes in Carbonaceous Chondrites (2008) MN Mautner Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 1405, 8020
3. Microbial and Brine Shrimp Bioassays of Carbonaceous Chondrites (2008) MN Mautner Asteroids, Comets, Meteors 2008 1405, 8021
Lunar Gene Banks for Endangered Species (2006) MN Mautner Cell Preservation Technology 4 (3), 224-225
Associative charge transfer reactions. temperature effects and mechanism of the gas-phase polymerization of propene initiated by a benzene radical cation (2006) Y Ibrahim, M Meot-Ner Mautner, MS El-Shall The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 110 (27), 8585-8592
Meteorite nanoparticles as Models for Interstellar Grains: Synthesis and Preliminary Characterization (2006) M. N. Mautner, V. Abdelsayed, M. S. El-Shall, J. D. Thrower, S. D. Green, M. P. Collings and M. R. S. McCoustra Faraday Discussions 133, 103-112
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