Current Members

Xingchen Tony Wang
Principal Investigator
PhD in Geosciences (2016), Princeton University

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)