Team
Dr. Julia Tejada
Assistant Professor of Geobiology & William Hurt Scholar
Affiliated Faculty - Biology and Biological Engineering
Dr. Yuanyuan He
Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Interests: light isotope analysis, organics in meteorites, biosignatures on Mars
Dr. Elena Stiles
Postdoctoral Researcher
Academic Interests: Fossil plants, climate, geological processes
Isaac Aguilar
Grad Student, Caltech GPS
Academic Interests: remote sensing, molecular biology
Nick Anderson
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Geochronology, sedimentary geology
Andres Rodriguez
Grad Student, Caltech-BBE
Academic Interests: Molecular biology, microbiology, virus-host coevolution
Josh Anadu
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Academic Interests: Sedimentary geology, isotope geochemistry, carbon cycle
Iva Tomchovska
Grad Student, Caltech-GPS
Sedimentology, Geochemistry, Geochronology, Paleoclimatology
Bianca Jaramillo
Undergraduate Student
Cal State LA - Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Alyssa Shin
Undergraduate Student
Caltech - Division of Biology and Biological Engineering
Sophie
Honorary Member
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)