Kian Faizi

I'm a PhD student at Caltech with Rob Phillips, where I think about how matter and energy move through biological systems, from the molecular to the planetary scale.

I like being outside. You can find me in the Angeles National Forest, where I sometimes volunteer as a fire lookout and trail maintainer.

Major prior iterations of me have been an inaugural New Science fellow at Harvard, a lab tech at the Salk Institute, an undergrad at UCSD, a high school student in Malaysia, and a gastrulating embryo in San Diego.