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Gaia Stucky de Quay joined the EAPS faculty in 2023. After earning a master’s degree in Earth sciences from University College London in 2014, Stucky completed her PhD studies in Earth and planetary sciences at Imperial College London in 2019. She pursued postdoctoral fellowship projects at the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin from 2019 to 2021 and then at the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University from 2021 to 2023. Stucky held a postdoctoral fellowship at EAPS MIT before her appointment as assistant professor in 2023. Her research focuses on the driving forces of formation, evolution, and decay of planetary surfaces, investigating how factors such as fluvial erosion, climate, and tectonics shape geological landscapes over time. Stucky employs a combination of theoretical studies, fieldwork, remote sensing, and laboratory analyses to quantify these interactions across various landscapes and temporal scales.