Team
Dr. Julia Tejada
Assistant Professor of Geobiology & William Hurt Scholar
Affiliated Faculty - Biology and Biological Engineering
Dr. Yuanyuan He
Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Interests: C-H-N isotope analysis, organic matters in meteorites, life biosignatures on Mars
Dr. Mattia Tagliavento
Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Interests: clumped isotope geochemistry, dinosaur evolution
Dr. Elena Stiles
Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Interests: Fossil Plants, climate, geological processes
Josh Anadu
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Academic Interests: Sedimentary geology, isotope geochemistry, carbon cycle
Isaac Aguilar
Grad Student, Caltech GPS
Academic Interests: stable isotope geochemistry, molecular biology, remote sensing
Andres Rodriguez
Grad Student, Caltech-BBE
Academic Interests: Molecular biology, microbiology, virus-host coevolution
Iva Tomchovska
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Sedimentology, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Paleoclimatology
Nick Anderson
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Paleomagnetism
Federico Moreno
Lab Manager
Alyssa Shin
Undergraduate Student
Caltech - Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Bianca Jaramillo
Undergraduate Student
Cal State LA - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Sophie
Honorary Member
Summer Students
2025
Claire Xu
WAVE CES Fellow
Brown University - Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Data Science Institute
Alyssa Shin
The Associates SURF fellow
Caltech - Division of Biology and Biological Engineering/Computation and Neural Systems
Mia Gonzalgo
SURF student
Columbia University - Computer Science and Music Departments
2024
Alyssa Shin
Holo Family SURF fellow
Caltech - Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Lucas Rodrigues Tovar
Visiting Grad Student
Rio de Janeiro University (UERJ)
Mia Gonzalgo
SURF student
Columbia University - Computer Science and Music Departments
Bianca Jaramillo
WAVE CES Fellow
Cal State LA - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry