Betül studies the foundations of life on Earth to understand the potential for life in space. Betül is a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she directs the NASA MUSE consortium, a NASA RCN, and her own molecular paleobiology research lab. Her team’s work has appeared on NOVA, BBC, CNN, PBS, Wired and more.
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President’s Professor, Arizona State University
Expertise: Geochemistry/Earth evolution
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Associate Professor, Stanford University
Expertise: Deep-sea microbiology and biogeochemistry
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Department Head and Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Utah State University
Expertise: Nitrogen fixation
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Minnesota
Expertise: natural mineral-fluid interactions
Assistant Professor, Utah State University
Expertise: Isotope and trace metal geochemistry
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