Sarah Stewart Johnson is an American biologist, geochemist, astronomer and planetary scientist. She joined Georgetown University in 2014[1] and is currently the Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor of Biology and the Science, Technology, and International Affairs program in the School of Foreign Service.[2]
Sarah Stewart Johnson | |
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| Born | Kentucky |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Washington University in St. Louis Oxford University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Institutions | Georgetown University Harvard University |
| Thesis | Mars in the late Noachian : evolution of a habitable surface environment (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Maria Zuber |
Early life and education
editJohnson was born in Kentucky and grew up in Lexington.[3] She received her bachelor's degree from Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Arthur Holly Compton Fellow and majored in math and environmental studies. During college, she won a Goldwater Scholarship and a Truman Scholarship.[3][4][5] Johnson then attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar where she earned bachelor's and master's degrees.[6][1] In 2008, she completed a PhD in planetary science at MIT.[7]
Career
editJohnson was a Junior Fellow at Harvard University from 2008-2009 and 2011-2013.[8] She was a White House Fellow working for the President’s Science Advisor, under the Obama administration from 2009-2011.[9] Johnson became a faculty member at Georgetown in 2014. Her work involves the use of analog environments to study the habitability of the surface and subsurface of Mars and icy moons.[10][9] Her lab at Georgetown is currently focused on the detection of agnostic biosignatures, sometimes referred to as "life as we don't know it".[11][12] She is a visiting scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center with the Planetary Environments lab.[13] She participated in the Curiosity, Opportunity, and Spirit missions.[6][3]
Bibliography
editHonors
edit- Desert Writers Award (2013)[14]
- White House Fellow (2009)
- Harvard Junior Fellow (2008)
- Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship, MIT (2008)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship[1]
- Rhodes Scholarship (2001)
- Truman Scholarship (2000)
- Goldwater Scholarship (1999)
- Arthur Holly Compton Fellowship, Washington University in St. Louis (1997)
References
edit- ^ a b c "Climate CoLab". Climate CoLab. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
- ^ "Georgetown University Faculty Directory". gufaculty360.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
- ^ a b c Overbye, Dennis (27 July 2020). "Coming of Age on Mars". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "American Rhodes Scholars 2001" (PDF).
- ^ "Searching for life in the cosmos | The Source | Washington University in St. Louis". The Source. 2021-08-05. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
- ^ a b Lacey, Hester (17 July 2020). "Sarah Stewart Johnson: 'I am driven to try to answer the big questions — are we alone in the universe?'". www.ft.com. Financial Times. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ Overbye, Dennis (2020-07-27). "Coming of Age on Mars". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ^ "Sarah Stewart Johnson, EAPS PhD, gives rein to curiosity". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 4 September 2012. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
- ^ a b Graham, Elyse (4 September 2012). "Sarah Stewart Johnson, EAPS PhD, gives rein to curiosity". MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
- ^ "Field Sites | Johnson Biosignatures Lab". Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ "LAB | Laboratory for Agnostic Biosignatures". Lab2. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
- ^ "Sarah Johnson". Georgetown University. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
- ^ "Bio - Sarah Stewart Johnson". science.gsfc.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
- ^ "Sarah Stewart Johnson".