Main Focus
I am a planetary scientist and my main interests are cosmochemistry and the use of isotope geochemistry to study early Solar System materials and their formation processes. In the planetary materials group, we perform high-precision chemical separation techniques to constrain the mineralogical and isotopic composition of meteoritic samples. My research project utilizes Hf-W chronology to understand the evolution of differentiated NC materials (such as aubrites).
Curriculum Vitae
Awards and Fellowships:
2024 Meteoritical Society Travel Grant
2024 Geological Society of America Graduate Research Grant
2023,2024 Dean’s Graduate Fellowship Award
Education and Employment:
2026-ongoing: PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
2023-2026: MS Research and Teaching Assistantship at the University of Maryland, College Park (Isotope Geochemistry Group)
2024-2025: GEONU Development and Outreach Assistant in collaboration with MathWorks (MATLAB) and Tohoku University
2018-2019: Undergraduate Laboratory Assistant at the University of Maryland, College Park (Stable Isotopes Group)
Selected Publications:
Faison, T. J'N., Ash, R. D. (2024). Investigation of Siderophile Element Behavior in Ordinary
Chondrite Metal During Metamorphism. 55th Lunar Planetary Science Conference. #2540
Faison, T. J’N., Ash, R. D. (2024). Effects of Oxygen Fugacity on Element Distribution in
Ordinary Chondrite Metal. 86th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society. #6058
Faison, T. J’N., Sammon, L., McDonough, W. F. (2024) Calculating Earth’s Radioactive Power
from a Geoneutrino Flux Measurement. American Geophysical Union Conference. #1545010
Sahoo, S.K., Gilleaudeau, G.J., Wilson, K., Hart, B., Barnes, B. D., Faison, T., Bowman, A. R.,
Larson, T. E., Kaufman, A. J. (2023), Basin-scale reconstruction of euxinia and Late Devonian mass
extinctions. Nature 615, 640–645
doi:10.1038/s41586-023-05716-2