Before Leila Mirzagholi arrived at MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) to begin her postdoc appointment, she had spent most of her time in academia building cosmological models to detect properties of gravitational waves in the cosmos. But as a member of Assistant Professor Cesar Terrer's lab in CEE, Mirzagholi uses her physics and mathematical background to improve our understanding of the different factors that influence how much carbon land ecosystems can store under climate change. 'What was always important to me was thinking about how to solve a problem and putting all the pieces together and building something from scratch,' Mirzagholi says, adding this was one of the reasons that it was possible for her to switch fields ' and what drives her today as a climate scientist. Growing up in Iran, Mirzagholi knew she wanted to be a scientist from an early age. As a kid, she became captivated by physics, spending most of her free time in a local cultural...
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