Michelle Brann

Michelle is a postdoctoral fellow in Professor Karin Öberg’s group at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She conducts laboratory experiments to understand abundances of complex organic molecules in interstellar ice analogs during planet formation. Previously, she was an NRC postdoc at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST) and measured superconducting nanowire single photon detectors. Michelle earned her Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 2022 from the University of Chicago and her B.A. in chemistry with honors from Wellesley College in 2015. Between undergraduate and graduate school, she spent one year at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.