Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 
Ph.D. Geochemistry | Advised by Professors Roger E. Summons & Gregory P. Fournier | 2025
S.M. Science Writing | Advised by Professor Marcia Bartusiak | 2018

Josep Comas i Solá International Summer School in Astrobiology, Santander, Spain | 2019

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Sc.B. Geology-Chemistry (Honors) | Adviser: Professor Julia Ann (Jan) Tullis | 2017

Husain, F., Uveges, B.T., Izon, G., Shen, G. and Summons, R.E., 2026. Consistent carbon isotope ordering of cyanobacterial lipids. Organic Geochemistry, p.105244. [link]

Husain, F., Shang, H., Louca, S., and Fournier, G., 2026. Molecular clock evidence for an Archean diversification of heme-copper oxygen reductase enzymes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 668(113531). [link]

Husain, F., Millar, J., Jungblut, A., Hawes, I., Evans, T.W., and Summons, R.E., 2025. Biosignatures of diverse eukaryotic life from a Snowball Earth analogue environment in Antarctica. Nature Communi cations, 16(1), p.5315. [link]

Bhattacharya, S., Summons, R.E., Murthy, S., Foster, C., Husain, F., Ankit, Y., 2025. Impact of wildfires on Gondwanan flora during the Permian–Triassic transition. Geochemical Perspectives Letters, 36, 35–41. [link]

Magnabosco, C., Husain, F., Paoletti, M. M., Parsons, C., Payette, J., Schwartz, S., Tamre, E., and Fournier, G. P., 2024. Toward a Natural History of Microbial Life. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 52:3.1-3.24. [link]

Elling, F. J., Evans, T. W., Nathan, V., Hemingway, J. D., Kharbush, J. J., Bayer, B., Spieck, E., Husain, F., Summons, R. E. and Pearson, A., 2022. Marine and terrestrial nitrifying bacteria are sources of diverse bacteriohopanepolyols. Geobiology, 00, 1–22. [link]

Phillips, A.A., Walsh, C.R., Grayson, K.A., Penney, C.E., Husain, F. and Women Doing Science Team, 2022. Diversifying representations of female scientists on social media: A case study from the women doing science Instagram. Social Media+ Society, 8(3), p.20563051221113068. [link]

Cui, X., Liu, X.L., Shen, G., Ma, J., Husain, F., Rocher, D., Zumberge, J.E., Bryant, D.A. and Summons, R.E., 2020. Niche expansion for phototrophic sulfur bacteria at the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(30), pp.17599-17606. [link]

Sistiaga, A., Husain, F., Uribelarrea, D., Martín-Perea, D.M., Ferland, T., Freeman, K.H., Diez-Martín, F., Baquedano, E., Mabulla, A., Dominguez-Rodrigo, M. and Summons, R.E., 2020. Microbial biomarkers reveal a hydrothermally active landscape at Olduvai Gorge at the dawn of the Acheulean, 1.7 Ma. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(40), pp.24720-24728. [link]