About Linnea
Linnea has a PhD in Physics from Brandeis University. During this time, she investigated the hierarchical nature of energy cascades in active liquid crystal biomaterials. She is now a HHMI Hanna H. Gray Postdoctoral Fellow and a PBI2 Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. She is currently studying the phase separation of the pyrenoid, an essential organelle in algae.
"We travelled for Science. Those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Buckley Island, and that mass of material, less spectacular, but gathered just as carefully hour by hour in wind and drift, darkness and cold, were striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks." - Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey In The World