Minik Rosing is a professor and curator at the Geological Museum in Denmark, and he is researching in the origin of life. He is in the top of the field, after he discovered carbon traces from microorganisms stored in rocks from 3,8 billion years ago. Minik Rosing was born in Greenland in 1958 and moved to Copenhagen to study geology at the University of Copenhagen. When he graduated he started going on expeditions to Greenland, to study the nature.