The School of Science has announced that 11 faculty members have been appointed to named professorships. These positions offer additional support to professors to advance their research and develop their careers.
Andrew Babbin was named a Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor. A marine biogeochemist, Babbin studies the processes that return fixed nitrogen in the ocean back to nitrogen gas, exploring marine nitrogen’s control on life in the ocean and its effects on climate. His research sheds light on the ocean’s potential to sustain life and store carbon. Babbin earned a BS degree from Columbia University in 2008 and a PhD from Princeton University in 2014. He came to MIT in 2014 as a postdoc in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering before joining the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences in January 2017.
