My name is Isabella "Izzy" Muller, and I am a field-based geologist currently working towards my PhD at the University of Texas at Austin under the supervision of Dr. Richard Ketcham. My research is based out of Alaska and is currently focused on better constraining tectonic controls on Eocene cooling of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane, interior Alaska, using fission track thermochronology.

I completed my MSc at the University of Alaska Fairbanks working under Dr. Sean Regan in 2022 where I worked on unraveling the structural evolution of the Hatcher Pass schist, a chlorite-muscovite schist that was exhumed in the southernmost Talkeetna mountains above a slab window in the hinge of the Alaska orocline. I finished my BSc at the College of William and Mary in 2020 with my mentor Dr. Brent Owens and completed an undergraduate thesis project on a geochemical study of the Union Mill gneiss, a fine-grained grey biotite gneiss from south-central Virginia.