People

Current Members

Xingchen Tony Wang

Principal Investigator

PhD in Geosciences (2016), Princeton University

Curriculum Vitae

Sarah Davies

Simons Foundation Pivot Fellow (2025-2026)

Associate Professor of Biology, Boston University

Jessica Lueders-Dumont

Senior Research Associate (2023-Present)

PhD in Geosciences, Princeton University (2019)

Kameko Landry

PhD student (2022-Present)

MS in Geology, Boston College (2022)

Ruixiang Zhai

PhD student (2023-Present)

BS in Oceanography, Xiamen University (2022)

Bastian Muench

PhD student (2024-Present)

MS in Oceanography, University of Delaware (2023)

Celia Murphy-Braunstein

PhD student (2025-Present)

BS in Geosciences, Princeton University (2025)

Kathryn O’Brien

Undergraduate Researcher

Lillian Corbitt

Undergraduate Researcher

Lab Alumni

Postdocs

Jian-Jhih (Kenji) Chen (2021-2023), Assistant Professor at National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology

Yuwei (Cindy) Wang (2019-2021), Senior Scientist at Entrada Therapeutics

Christine Wu (2019-2020), Postdoc Scholar at UC Santa Barbara

Graduate Students

Heather Donnelly (PhD, 2021–2026), NSF EAR Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute

Tianshu Kong (PhD, 2021–2025), Postdoctoral Research Fellow at George Mason University

Danielle LeBlanc (PhD, 2020–2024; co-advised with Jeremy Shakun), NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Undergraduate Researchers

Ruth Steinshouer (2025-2026, Senior Thesis, with Departmental honors)

Natalie Prinz (2023-2024, Senior Thesis, with Departmental honors)

Julianna Marinelli (2021-2023)

Thomas Lee (2021-2023, Senior Thesis, with Departmental honors)

Marcus Lin (Summer 2021)

Carlos Tramonte (2020-2021)

Alexis Burns (2020-2021, Senior Thesis, with Departmental honors)

Lab Managers

Andrew Lonero (2022-2026)

Ting-Hsuan Lin (2022-2023)