Meet the Lab
Lab Members
Dr. Julia Tejada
Assistant Professor of Geobiology & William Hurt Scholar
Affiliated Faculty - Biology and Biological Engineering
Dr. Yuanyuan He
Postdoctoral Researcher
Light Isotope Analysis, Organics in Meteorites, Biosignatures on Mars
Dr. Elena Stiles
Postdoctoral Researcher
Fossil Plants, Climate, Geological Processes
Isaac Aguilar
Grad Student, Caltech GPS
Vertebrate Paleontology, Biodiversity, Remote Sensing
Nick Anderson
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Geochronology, Sedimentary Geology
Andres Rodriguez
Grad Student, Caltech-BBE
Molecular biology, Microbiology, Virus-Host Coevolution
Josh Anadu
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Sedimentary Geology, Isotope Geochemistry, Carbon Cycle
Sophie
Honorary Member
Iva Tomchovska
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Sedimentology, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Paleoclimatology
Bianca Jaramillo
Undergraduate Student
Cal State LA - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Summer & Visiting Students
Bianca Jaramillo
SURF 2026
WAVE CES Fellow 2024
Cal State LA - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Alyssa Shin
The Associates SURF fellow 2025
Holo Family SURF fellow 2024
Caltech - Division of Biology and Biological Engineering - Computation and Neural Systems
Claire Xu
WAVE CES Fellow 2025
Brown University - Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences and Data Science Institute
Mia Gonzalgo
SURF student 2025 and 2024
Columbia University - Computer Science and Music Departments
Lucas Rodrigues Tovar
Visiting PhD Student 2024 & 2026
Rio de Janeiro University (UERJ)
Nivale Baxendell
WAVE CES Fellow 2026 Wellesley College - Dept. of Geosciences & Dept. of Computer Sciences