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
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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
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Leilani Warters, EAS MS Student (2022-present)
BSc, Environmental Science, Claflin University, 2022
Research: Rare earth element uptake kinetics in bacteria
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Undergraduate Students
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PhD alumni
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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
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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
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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
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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
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BSc, Biochemistry, 2023
UG researcher 2023
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![Bianca Costa Bianca Costa](http://www.jenniferglass.com/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/Bianca-Costa-ppu4chsfxbwn686fuf20y584aa6jnjtmtwf1qgd2sc.jpeg)
BSc, Env Eng + EAS minor, 2018
PURA researcher 2017-2018
Current: PhD student NSF GRFP, USC, Environmental Engineering
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UG Researcher, 2020-2021
Biochemistry Major, Class of 2023
Current: Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, Georgia Tech
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BSc, Biochemistry, 2021
CoS Early Research Award, 2017-2019
Current: Clinical Research Coordinator, UCSF
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BSc, Environmental Science, U Missouri-Columbia, 2022
ACE REU student, 2021
Current: PhD student, Boston University, Earth & Environment
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Frontiers Postdoc, 2014-2015
Current: Director, Bioinformatics, ICF
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Ford Foundation Postdoc Fellow, 2017-2019
Current: Staff Scientist, LPI
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PhD, Biochemistry, Georgia Tech, 2020
GT International Exchange, 2015
Current: Scientist, Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Global Blood Therapeutics
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BSc, ME + EAS minor, 2015
Lab Assistant, 2014-2015
Current: ORNL Hydropower Group
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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
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BSc, Civil & Env Eng + Math Minor, Lincoln U, 2019
ACE REU, 2017
Current: Technician, Quest Diagnostics
Read Tyia’s Interview with Pittsburgh Promise here
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High School Student Researcher, 2020-2023
Current: Undegraduate student, Stanford University, Chemistry
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BSc, Comp Eng, 2014; MSc, ECE, 2015
Lab Assistant, 2013-2014
Current: Lead Researcher/Software Engineer, Fortiphyd Logic
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BSc, EAS, 2017
UG Researcher, 2013-2017
[LinkedIn]
Current: Technical Account Manager, KCF Technologies
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NASA Astrobiology Postdoc Fellow, 2015-2020
Current: Innovation Scientist II, Beyond Meat
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ACE REU, 2023
Current: BS student, Marine Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao
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GT 3M REU Student, 2019
Current: STEM Research Developer, SR1 Scientific Research
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Lab Assistant 2016-2020
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Dr. Jieying Wu
Postdoc, 2015-2016
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