Sara Imari Walker

Professor

Year

2023
Program

Schmidt Science Polymaths
Institution

Arizona State University
Field of Study

Earth and Planetary Science
Location

Tempe, USA

Sara Walker is Deputy Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science and a Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. She is a member of the External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute and a Fellow at the Berggruen Institute. Trained in theoretical physics her work aims to address how life emerges from non-life, and how solving the origin of life might enable us to identify alien life on other planetary bodies.