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Dimitar Sasselov

Phillips Professor of Astronomy
Director, Harvard Origins of Life Initiative
Dimitar Sasselov is the Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. He explores stars and planets, and how life emerged on Earth, by specializing in the modes of interaction between light and matter, and the uses of remote sensing. Sasselov and...
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Sarah Crucilla

Graduate Student
Sarah received her BS in Geology from the California Institute of Technology. Her research now focuses on the interfaces between water, minerals, and biomolecules relating to the origin of life. In the Sasselov lab, she is studying the photophysics of RNA...
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S. Furkan Ozturk

Kavli-Laukien Fellow
Lab Safety Officer (LSO)
Furkan completed his undergraduate degree in physics at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkiye. During his time there, he focused on studying the theory of ultracold dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates using the Hartree-Fock Bogoliubov method. Later, in 2018...
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Jonah Peter

Graduate Student in The Biophysics Program
Jonah received his BA in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania. His research is focused on theoretical atomic, molecular, and biophysics as it pertains to the origin of life and astrobiology. Current research interests include symmetry breaking in...
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Sasselov Lab Alumni

Matthew Heising

In Master's Teaching Program at Tufts
Previous CFA Role: Graduate Student
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