Sarah Steele

Postdoc, Harvard Earth & Planetary Sciences

PhD Earth & Planetary Sciences, Harvard ’25
BS Physics, Caltech ’20

About me

I’m a postdoc in, and recent graduate of, the Harvard Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. My research focuses on using a combination of meteorite paleomagnetism and diverse modeling techniques (finite element cooling models, detailed crustal magnetic modeling, computational petrology) to understand a variety of problems in planetary magnetism and interiors. While my PhD work mainly focused on Mars’s early dynamo, I also thinking about the Moon, Mercury, and bodies in the outer solar system.

I was born and raised in Richmond, VA.