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Professor Kristin Johnson-Finn is an interdisciplinary scientist at heart. Combining her desire to understand the world through a chemical lens with her love of rocks and minerals (with a collection to match), she began a research career combining both interests through a circuitous route which has consequentially prepared her to explore complex problems. Her career path has led her to find a home at RPI as a tenure-track assistant professor where the interdisciplinary perspective in strongly encouraged.
During her undergraduate at Youngstown State University, the future Dr. Johnson-Finn explored her multi-faceted interest in chemistry through different research projects in biochemistry, organic chemistry, and inorganic chemistry while also taking supplemental minors in mathematics and geology (with the occasional astronomy class thrown in). Encouraged by her mineralogy professor to apply (due to her interest in meteorites), she became a LPI USRA intern at NASA Johnson Space Center in 2010 where she spent the summer investigating meteorites from the asteroid 4-Vesta.
Driven to find a way to combine her interdisciplinary interests with the exploration of space, she was thrilled to discover the field of Astrobiology during her search for graduate programs. Her interests in organic geochemistry and astrobiology took her to the Department of Chemistry at Arizona State University where she joined the GEOPIG (Group Exploring Organic Processes in Geochemistry) research group of Professor Everett Shock, an aqueous organic geochemist and thermodynamicist. In addition to being part of GEOPIG, she spent her PhD working as part of the collaborative HOG (Hydrothermal Organic Geochemistry) project where she benefited from the combined knowledge of professors from chemistry and geology every week through detail-oriented discussions with peers. For her dissertation, she went on to explore the reaction pathways of aromatic carboxylic acids in the presence of different metal oxide minerals at hydrothermal conditions which led her to have many questions that could not yet be explained with hydrothermal experimental methods alone.
After receiving her PhD, Dr. Johnson-Finn's research questions compelled her to cross the Pacific Ocean to collaborate with researchers at the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) in Tokyo, Japan. As a research scientist, she continued her hydrothermal experimental research using new experimental techniques, expanding her expertise to include electrochemistry of organic and mineral reactions, and dabbling in analytical methods such as magnetometry. Now outfitted with an international knowledge of the field of astrobiology and many wonderful colleagues across the globe, Dr. Johnson-Finn has become a tenure-track assistant professor at RPI where she plans to expand and continue her exploration of the planet through a chemist's perspective.
Professor Johnson-Finn is a faculty member of the RARE (Rensselaer Astrobiology Research and Education) Center and a Co-I of a NASA funded research grant involving collaborators across the country titled "Earth First Origins" (EFO). The EFO focuses on understanding the connection between geologic environments and the emergence of life through observations, modelling, and experiments.
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ASTROBIOLOGYpp.1-27, (2022)
Goldschmidt2021 abstracts (2021)
Deep Carbonpp.415-446, (2019)
Shawn E McGlynn, Jennifer B Glass,Kristin Johnson-Finn, Frieder Klein, Sebastian A Sanden, Matthew O Schrenk, Yuichiro Ueno, Alberto Vitale-Brovarone
semanticscholar(2019)
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