Sara Walker
Also known as Sara Imari Walker
Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State; co-develops assembly theory.
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- Sara Imari Walker is an American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist who studies the origins and physics of life.
- Walker is deputy director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.
- Walker develops assembly theory with Leroy Cronin.
- Walker wrote Life as No One Knows It (2024).
Key facts
- Education
- BS in physics, Florida Institute of Technology (2005); PhD in physics and astronomy, Dartmouth College (2010)1
- Roles
- Deputy director, Beyond Center, ASU; associate director, ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial Complex Systems; associate professor, ASU1
- Research
- Origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, assembly theory1
- Book
- Life as No One Knows It: The Physics of Life's Emergence (2024)1
- Also
- Co-founder of the astrobiology social network SAGANet; board of Blue Marble Space1
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