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Kristin Bergmann joined the Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2015 after earning her PhD in geology from the California Institute of Technology in 2013. She holds a BA in geology and environmental studies from Carleton College, completed in 2004, and has experience teaching Earth and life sciences at Pennington School in New Jersey. Her research focuses on environmental change during the early Earth, utilizing a combination of sedimentology, stratigraphy, geochemistry, and geobiology to interpret marine carbonate sedimentary rocks and fossils. She aims to understand the chemistry of climate oceans and their impact on the evolution of complex life forms, from unicellular microbial communities to multicellular animal communities. Her notable contributions include work on stable isotope geochemistry, identifying significant carbon isotope excursions during the Neoproterozoic, and understanding the evolution of complex life through fossil analysis.