Former Lab Members

Kemi Ashing-Giwa

Graduate Student in Geobiology, Stanford University

Harvard College Class of 2022

Kemi Ashing-Giwa is a senior concentrating in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology with a secondary in Astrophysics.

Rui Bao

rui.bao@aces.su.se

SNSF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018, Pearson Lab

Ph.D., ETH Zurich, 2016

Rui Bao joined EPS as a postdoctoral fellow in Ann Pearson’s group.

Steven Beaupre

steven.beaupre@stonybrook.edu

Associate Professor, School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University

Research Associate, Pearson Lab 2014

Tanja Bosak

tbosak@mit.edu

Professor, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Microbial Sciences Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow, 2005-2007

Roderick Bovee

rbovee@gmail.com

Ph.D., 2014, Pearson Lab

Alex Bradley

abradley@eps.wustl.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Agouron Institute Fellow, 2009-2012

Jochen Brocks

jochen.brocks@anu.edu.au

Professor, Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University

Junior Fellow, Dept. of OEB, 2001-2004

José Carriquiry

carriquiry@uabc.edu.mx

Professor, Autonomous University of Baja California

Ph.D., 1991, McMaster University

José received his BSc in Oceanography from the Autonomous University of Baja California, Mexico, and Ph.D. in Geology/Geochemistry from McMaster University, Canada (advisors: Drs. Mike Risk and Henry Schwarcz).

Alyssa Chan

alyssachan@college.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Thesis Student, 2015-2016

Hilary Close

hclose@rsmas.miami.edu

Associate Professor, Department of Ocean Sciences, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami

Ph.D. 2012, Pearson Lab

Anne Dekas

dekas@stanford.edu

Assistant Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University

Ph.D. in Geobiology, Caltech 2012

Harvard EPS Undergraduate Thesis Student, 2003-2004

Felix Elling

felling@leibniz.uni-kiel.de

Postdoctoral Fellow

Present position: Research group leader, Leibniz Laboratory, Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany

I am an organic geochemist and geobiologist studying past and present interactions of microbial life with geochemical cycles and climate from a molecular perspective.

Woody Fischer

wfischer@caltech.edu

Professor of Geobiology in Geological and Planetary Sciences, Caltech

Ph.D. 2007, Knoll Lab

Meredith Fisher

Director of Technology and Business Development, Enlight Biosciences

Ph.D. 2007, Cavanaugh Lab

Patricia Fuentes-Cross

pfcross@gmail.com

Administrator

Ana Camila Gonzalez-Nayeck

gonzalezvaldes@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D., Pearson Lab, 2023

Ana’s PhD research deals with the carbon isotopic composition of organic compounds in microbial mats.

Clare Hayes

clarmyra@post.harvard.edu

Microbial Sciences Initiative Summer Fellow, 2007

Lindsay Hays

lindsay.e.hays@jpl.nasa.gov

Program Scientist, NASA

Agouron Postdoctoral Fellow, 2010-2013

Jordon Hemingway

jordon.hemingway@erdw.ethz.ch

Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2021

Present position: Assistant Professor, Geological Institute, Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zürich

Jordon Hemingway develops and applies methods and concepts of geochemistry and kinetics to understand how and why the Earth system has evolved throughout its history.