Roger Summons

Professor of Geobiology, MIT

Roger Everett Summons is Professor of Geobiology in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a fellow of the Royal Society. Summons is particularly known for the application of organic geochemical techniques to sediments of Precambrian age and modern microbes in order to increase our understanding of the early evolution of life on Earth. Currently he is also engaged as a participating scientist with the search for organics in NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. Outside academia Summons is an avid wine connoisseur and roots for the Boston Red Sox.