Anat Shahar is a staff scientist at the Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington[1] and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland.
[2] Her work uses high-pressure, high-temperature experiments and stable isotope geochemistry to understand the formation of planets in the Solar System.
[5][6] In 2012 Shahar was awarded Stanford University's Blaustein Fellowship, which helped fund her work investigating the pressure-dependent relationship of the isotopic composition of iron alloys, published in Science.
Clarke Medal, an award from the Geochemical Society that recognizes a single outstanding contribution to geochemistry or cosmochemistry by an early-career scientist.
[15][17] Shahar’s lab group also investigates how the presence of magnesium, sulfur, and nickel[18] affect iron isotopic fractionation in planetary and asteroid materials.