Amanda Stockton
Associate Professor
School of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Georgia Tech 

Research
Amanda Stockton's work integrates engineering and science to develop instrumentation capable of looking for organic molecules and signs of life at Earth’s extremes and elsewhere in the solar system. After obtaining a masters at Brown in chemistry, she earned her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley working on increasing the analytical chemistry capabilities of the Mars Organic Analyzer microchip capillary electrophoresis instrument platform. She continued in this vein at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, by furthering the microfluidic engineering side of the technology as first a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow and then as a Technologist. At Georgia Tech, her group’s work seeks to do both the engineering and the science to synergistically promote instrument capabilities and robustness. 

Stockton’s work utilizes microfluidics at the core, and includes projects developing instrumentation to detect life and determine habitability of extraterrestrial environments, modeling sea spray aerosols on ocean exoplanets, seeking out the limits of life on Earth, and developing novel microfluidic tools and techniques for low-cost, low-resource applications. Her work also includes a strong field work component as lead of the FELDSPAR project and part of the OAST team.

The IBB Breakfast Club Seminar Series was started with the spirit of the Institute's interdisciplinary mission in mind to feature local IBB faculty member's research in a seminar format. Faculty are often asked to speak at other universities and conferences, but do not often present at their home institution - this seminar series is an attempt to close that gap. IBB Breakfast Club Seminars are open to anyone in the bio-community.