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


Anais Gentilhomme, OSE PhD Student (2024-present)
MSc, U Alaska Fairbanks, Biological Oceanography, 2020; BSc, U Washington, Oceanography/International Studies, 2017
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, EAS, 2024
Current: MS Student, EAS, 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

BS ENVS 2024
Current:



GT 3M REU Student, 2019
Current: STEM Research Developer, SR1 Scientific Research


Lab Assistant 2016-2020

Dr. Jieying Wu
Postdoc, 2015-2016
