John P. Grotzinger
Ted and Ginger Jenkins Leadership Chair
Heather Knutson
Divisional Academic Officer
Michael C. Gurnis
Director, Seismological Laboratory
Paul O. Wennberg, Director
Linde Center for Global Environmental Science
Professors Emeriti
Arden L. Albee, Ph.D.
Geology and Planetary Science
Donald S. Burnett, Ph.D.
Nuclear Geochemistry
Charles Elachi, Ph.D.
Electrical Engineering and Planetary Science
Peter Goldreich, Ph.D.
Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics
Thomas H. Heaton, Ph.D.
Professor of Engineering Seismology
Andrew P. Ingersoll, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Hiroo Kanamori, Ph.D.
John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics
Duane O. Muhleman, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Jason B. Saleeby, Ph.D.
Geology
David J. Stevenson., Ph.D.
Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science
Peter J. Wyllie, Ph.D., D.Sc.h.c.
Geology
Professors
Jess F. Adkins, Ph.D.
Smits Family Professor of Geochemistry and Global Environmental Science
Paul D. Asimow, Ph.D.
Eleanor and John R. McMillan Professor of Geology and Geochemistry
Jean-Philippe Avouac, Doctorat
Earle C. Anthony Professor of Geology and Mechanical and Civil Engineering; Associate Director, Center for Autonomous Systems and Technologies
Konstantin Batygin, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Geoffrey A. Blake, Ph.D.
Cosmochemistry and Planetary Science and Chemistry
Michael E. Brown, Ph.D.
Richard and Barbara Rosenberg
Professor of Planetary Astronomy; Terence D. Barr Leadership Chair and Director of Caltech Center for Comparative Planetary Evolution
Robert W. Clayton, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Bethany L. Ehlmann, Ph.D.
Planetary Science; Associate Director, Keck Institute for Space Studies
John M. Eiler, Ph.D.
Robert P. Sharp Professor of Geology and Geochemistry
Kenneth A. Farley, Ph.D.
W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Geochemistry
Woodward W. Fischer, Ph.D.
Professor of Geobiology
Christian Frankenberg, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Research Scientist
John P. Grotzinger, Ph.D.
Harold Brown Professor of Geology
Michael C. Gurnis, Ph.D.
John E. and Hazel S. Smits Professor of Geophysics
Jennifer M. Jackson, Ph.D.
William E. Leonhard Professor of Mineral Physics
Joseph L. Kirschvink, Ph.D.
Nico and Marilyn Van Wingen Professor of Geobiology
Heather A. Knutson, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Ph.D.
George Ellery Hale Professor of Astronomy and Planetary Science
Michael P. Lamb, Ph.D.
Geology
Nadia Lapusta, Ph.D.
Lawrence A. Hanson, Jr. Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics
Jared R. Leadbetter, Ph.D.
Environmental Microbiology
Dianne K. Newman, Ph.D.
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology; Executive Officer for Biology and Biological Engineering
Victoria J. Orphan, Ph.D.
James Irvine Professor of Environmental Science and Geobiology; Allen V. C. Davis and Lenabelle Davis Leadership Chair, Center for Microbial Interactions; Director, Center for Microbial Interactions
George R. Rossman, Ph.D.
Professor of Mineralogy
Tapio Schneider, Ph.D.
Theodore Y. Wu Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering; JPL Senior Research Scientist
Alex L. Sessions, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Mark Simons, Ph.D.
John W. and Herberta M. Miles Professor of Geophysics; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Chief Scientist
Joann M. Stock, Ph.D.
Geology and Geophysics
Edward M. Stolper, Ph.D., D.Sc.h.c.
Judge Shirley Hufstedler Professor of Geology
Andrew F. Thompson, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Michael M. Watkins, Ph.D.
Aerospace and Geophysics
Paul O. Wennberg, Ph.D.
R. Stanton Avery Professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Environmental Science and Engineering
Brian P. Wernicke, Ph.D.
Chandler Family Professor of Geology
Yuk L. Yung, Ph.D.
Planetary Science; Jet Propulsion Laboratory Senior Research Scientist
Zhongwen Zhan, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Assistant Professors
Claire Bucholz, Ph.D.
Geology
Jörn Callies, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Katherine de Kleer, Ph.D.
Planetary Science and Astronomy
Zachary Ross, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Julia Tejada Lara, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Francois Tissot, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Lecturers
Nathan Dalleska, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Research Professor
Egill Hauksson, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Allen Husker, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Visiting Associates
Piyush Agram, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Ludmilla Aristilde, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Kangwoo Cho, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Elizabeth Cochran, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Joao do Carmo Fialho Mendonca, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Abigail Fraeman, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Amy Hofmann, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Renyu Hu, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Lucile M. Jones, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Patrice Klein, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Andrew Klesh, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Junjie Liu, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Yang Liu, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Charles Miller, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Vijay Natraj, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Xyoli Perez Campos, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Paul Rosen, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Stanley P. Sander, Ph.D.
Planetary Science and Environmental Science and Engineering
Sue Smrekar, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Joao Teixeira, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Paul Ullrich, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Joan Valentine, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Paulo Vasconcelos, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Duane Waliser, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Glenn Waychunas, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Members of the Professional Staff
Paula Antoshechkin, Ph.D.
Geology
Michael B. Baker, Ph.D.
Geology and Geochemistry
John R. Beckett, Ph.D.
Geology
Julian J. Bunn, Ph.D.
Geophysics
John D. Crounse, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Nathan F. Dalleska, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Yunbin Guan, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Chi Ma, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Sally Newman, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Postdoctoral Scholars
Mateo Acosta, Ph.D.
Geology
Andrew Annex, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Sajjad Azimi, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Eviatar Bach, Ph.D.
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Science and Engineering
Juliette Becker, Ph.D.
Heising Simons Pegasi b Postdoctoral Scholar in Planetary Science
Ettore Biondi, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Francisco Civilini, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Chloe Daudon, Ph.D.
Geology
Charly de Marez, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Danielle Draper, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Kieran Dunne, Ph.D.
Geology
Eryn Eitel, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Damanveer Grewal, Ph.D.
Barr Postdoctoral Scholar in Geology
Rosa Grigoryan, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Anna Gulcher, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Mukund Gupta, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Zhengyu Huang, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Kyungjae Im, Ph.D.
Geology
Yutian Ke, Ph.D.
Geology
Jiaxuan Li, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Rishav Mallick, Ph.D.
Texaco Postdoctoral Scholar in Geophysics
Lucia Mandon, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Wei Mao, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Selva Marroquin, Ph.D.
Texaco Postdoctoral Scholar in Geobiology
Francisco Martinez Hernandez, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Magdalena Mayr, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Christopher Milliner, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Sara Mirzaee, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Yoshinori Miyazaki, Ph.D.
Stanback Postdoctoral in Comparative Planetary Evolution
Kelsey Moore, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Xike (Nicole) Nie, Ph.D.
Geochemsitry
Frank Pavia, Ph.D.
Foster and Coco Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Science and Engineering
Gabriele Pichierre, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Thea Ragon, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Alexandre Renchon, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Roxana Shafiee, Ph.D.
Stanback Postdoctoral Scholar in Environmental Science and Engineering
Kriti Sharma, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Benjamin Smith, Ph.D.
Geology
Jessica Spake, Ph.D.
Heising Simons Pegasi b Postdoctoral Scholar in Planetary Science
Hongyu Sun, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Jonas Didero Takodjou Wambo, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Rodney Tollerson II, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Daniel Utter, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Lydia Varesio, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Dongchen Wang, Ph.D.
Geology
Yujie Wang, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Omar Wani, Ph.D.
Geology
Dien Wu, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Yitong Yao, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Jiuxun Yin, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Qian Yuan, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Qiushi Zhai, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Yunjun Zhang, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Yujie Zheng, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Weiqiang Zhu, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Yanzhe Zhu, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Visitors
Alexander Akins, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Thamer Alotaibi Aldaajani, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Alexis Bloom, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Gerrit Budde, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Christine Chen, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Elle Chimiak, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Max Coleman, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Gilamichael Domenico, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Valerie Fox, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Shana Goffredi, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Josh Goldford, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Matthew Golombek, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Robert W. Graves, Ph.D.
Geophysics
Murthy Gudipati, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
John M. Harris, Ph.D.
Geology
Jamshid Hassanzadeh, Ph.D.
Geology
Gregory Holk, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Martha House, Ph.D.
Geology
Robert Housley, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Atsuko Kobayashi, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Cheng Li, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Gen Li, Ph.D.
Geology
Devin McPhillips, Ph.D.
Geology
Paul Nerenberg, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Simon Cajetan Neubauer, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Jeff Osterhout, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Dimitri A. Papanastassiou, Ph.D.
Geochemistry
Christopher Parkinson, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Maria Raguso, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Haley Sapers, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Wolfgang Sturhahn, Ph.D.
Geophysics
David Thompson, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Geoffrey Toon, Ph.D.
Planetary Science
Debra Wunch, Ph.D.
Environmental Science and Engineering
Hank Yu, Ph.D.
Geobiology
Qing Yue, Ph.D.
Planetary Science