Where do EAS alumni get jobs?
What is their career advice?
Click alumni names on this link and in the alumni links below to read their stories.
Graduate Students
Claire Elbon, OSE-EAS PhD Candidate (2020-present)
BSc, Microbiology, U Tennessee Knoxville, 2020
Interview here
Research: Microbiology of coupled methane and nitrogen cycling in extreme environment
Awards: Georgia Tech Presidential Fellowship; 2020, 2nd Place Best Talk, SBS; 2022 3rd Place Best Talk; 2022 NSF GRFP; GT EAS Graduate Student Service Award, 2022
Leilani Warters, EAS MS Student (2022-present)
BSc, Environmental Science, Claflin University, 2022
Research: Rare earth element uptake kinetics in bacteria
Undergraduate Students
PhD alumni
Dr. Rebecca Guth-Metzler
PhD, Biochemistry, 2023
coadvised with Loren Williams
Dissertation: “RNA and Metals as a Window onto Ancient Biochemistry”
Awards: 2019, First Place, GT Carbon Reduction Challenge; 2020, 1st place Best Poster, SBS; 2021-2022, GT Astrobiology Fellow
ExplOrigins interview here
Current: Assistant Professor, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
Dr. Abigail Johnson
PhD, Ocean Science & Engineering, 2022
Dissertation: “Deep Biosphere Microbial Protein Interactions with Clathrates”
Awards: PEO Scholar, 2021-2022, OSE Fellow, 2018-2019, GT EAS Glen Cass Award, 2021, 1st place Best Talk, SBS, 2020 & 2021; 1st Place Best Poster, 2022 Astrobiology Science Conference
Current: Postdoc, University of Georgia
Dr. Amanda Cavazos
PhD, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 2020
Dissertation: “Interactions between reactive nitrogen and manganese: implications for marine nitrous oxide cycling“
Awards: 2014 Georgia Tech President’s Fellow; 2014 Georgia Tech Goizueta Fellow; 2015 NSF GRFP Fellow; 2016 2nd Place Best Talk, SBS; 2017 & 2018 1st Place Best Talk, EAS Graduate Student Symposia; 2018 3rd Place Best Talk, SBS; 2018 GSA Research Grant; 2019 1st Place Best Talk, SBS; 2019 GT EAS Bradshaw Instrumentation Award
Current: Lecturer, U Texas Rio Grande Valley
Dr. Marcus Bray
PhD, Biological Sciences, 2019
Dissertation: “Iron as an Integral Constituent of Ancient Metabolism and Biochemistry”
Awards: 2017 2nd Place Best Poster, Astrobiology Science Conference; 2019 3rd Place, Suddath Memorial Award
Current: Postdoc, Microbial Ecology, National Renewable Energy Lab, Golden, Colorado
Undergraduate, REU, and postdoc alumni
BSc, Biochemistry, 2023
UG researcher 2023
BSc, Env Eng + EAS minor, 2018
PURA researcher 2017-2018
Current: PhD student NSF GRFP, USC, Environmental Engineering
UG Researcher, 2020-2021
Biochemistry Major, Class of 2023
Current: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech
BSc, Biochemistry, 2021
CoS Early Research Award, 2017-2019
Current: Clinical Research Coordinator, UCSF
BSc, Environmental Science, U Missouri-Columbia, 2022
ACE REU student, 2021
Current: PhD student, Boston University, Earth & Environment
Frontiers Postdoc, 2014-2015
Current: Director, Bioinformatics, ICF
Ford Foundation Postdoc Fellow, 2017-2019
Current: Staff Scientist, LPI
PhD, Biochemistry, Georgia Tech, 2020
GT International Exchange, 2015
Current: Scientist, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Global Blood Therapeutics
BSc, ME + EAS minor, 2015
Lab Assistant, 2014-2015
Current: ORNL Hydropower Group
BSc, Coastal Environmental Science, 2014, LSU; MPH, LSU, 2017; MSc, Env Eng, U Florida
ACE REU, 2014
Current:Pollution Prevention & Control Program Supervisor, Orange County, California
BSc, Civil & Env Eng + Math Minor, Lincoln U, 2019
ACE REU, 2017
Current: Technician, Quest Diagnostics
Read Tyia’s Interview with Pittsburgh Promise here
High School Student Researcher, 2020-2023
Current: Undegraduate student, Stanford University, Chemistry
BSc, Comp Eng, 2014; MSc, ECE, 2015
Lab Assistant, 2013-2014
Current: Lead Researcher/Software Engineer, Fortiphyd Logic
BSc, EAS, 2017
UG Researcher, 2013-2017
[LinkedIn]
Current: Technical Account Manager, KCF Technologies
NASA Astrobiology Postdoc Fellow, 2015-2020
Current: Innovation Scientist II, Beyond Meat
ACE REU, 2023
Current: BS student, Marine Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao
GT 3M REU Student, 2019
Current: STEM Research Developer, SR1 Scientific Research
Lab Assistant 2016-2020
Dr. Jieying Wu
Postdoc, 2015-2016
