Michelle Brann

About Michelle Brann

Michelle Brann (she/her) is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Öberg Group at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She is a recent Chemistry PhD graduate from the Sibener Group at the University of Chicago where she explored gas-surface dynamics. She spent one year as a National Research Council (NRC) postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She is also an associate member of the American Chemical Society Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (CEPA). After graduating from Wellesley College in May 2015 with a BA with Honors in Chemistry and a minor in Mathematics, she worked for one year as a research associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the National Security Directorate. For more details about her projects and publications, feel free to visit her website: For details about awards and honors, feel free to ask for a copy of her CV.

Experience

1. Postdoctoral Fellow

   Center For Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian

   Dec 2023 — Present

   A member of Professor Karin Öberg’s group conducting laboratory astrophysics experiments

Education

• Wellesley College

  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

  2011 — 2015

• The University of Chicago

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

  2016 — 2022

Skills

• Dna
• Pam Fluorometry
• Cell Culture
• Laboratory
• Pcr
• Research
• Biotechnology
• Immunoassays
• Science
• Biochemistry
• Data Analysis
• Chemistry
• Algae
• Western Blotting
• Matlab
• Rna Isolation
• Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (Qpcr)
• Molecular Biology
• Mammalian Cell Culture
• Qpcr
• Elisa