Kian Faizi

I'm a PhD student and Caldwell graduate fellow at Caltech, where I'm advised by Rob Phillips. I think about how biology shapes planetary geochemistry, with a focus on how organisms assimilate and transform matter.

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.