Nadja Drabon

Geologist

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Geology, Zircon petrochronology

Nadja Drabon received a BS in Geological Science from Free University of Berlin in 2011 and Ph.D. in Geological and Environmental Sciences from Stanford University in 2018. She was a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University from 2018-2020 and at Harvard University in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences from 2020-2021 and was appointed as an assistant professor in 2021. In her research she combines fundamental present-day sedimentary processes with an appreciation of the non-uniformitarian character of the early Earth. Her research integrates multidisciplinary approaches by applying stratigraphic, provenance and geochemical analyses paired with detailed knowledge of complex geology at outcrop- to basin-scale. Specifically, her contributions to the field focus on: (1) Furthering our understanding of the formation of crust during the Hadean and Archean, (2) evaluating processes of early life recorded in the rock record and studying the influence of impact-related environmental perturbations on the biosphere, and (3) characterizing the poorly understood tectonic processes in the Archean.

Harvard University, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences – 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

ndrabon@g.harvard.edu

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