In this talk an overview of the current research in the fields of Origin of Life in the group of Prof. Dr. Oliver Trapp will be given. It will be based on the state of the art literature and the propositions therein of how life could have emerged in a chemical context. From there on different projects ranging from the studies of distinct energy sources to the reevaluation of known but unsolved reaction networks will be introduced and their results thus far. Among such projects will be mechanically and light induced reactions, phosphorylation reactions, sugar related reactions in atypical solvents as well as classic experimental set-ups like the formose and Miller-type reaction. The talk will finally conclude on the challenges in the qualitive and quantitative analysis of complex samples produced by those studies.