My name is Aaron Berliner. I studied bioengineering, control theory, optimization theory, synthetic biology, systems biology, nanotechnology, artificial neural networks, and some microelectromechanical system fabrication methodology at Boston University. When I graduated, I began researching 3D printing, bioelectrochemistry, astrobiology, and radiation biology at the NASA Ames Research Center. When the government shut down and NASA closed its doors, I started a company called Acheron and began tinkering with combining synthetic biology with bioremediation methods for nuclear waste environmental engineering. I recently left work at Autodesk Research where I was investigate bioprinting and synthetic virology. I am currently a Graduate Student and NSF Fellow at UC Berkeley where I research space synthetic biology, ISRU, and terraforming. I also make mars-in-a-jar reactors. I like puzzles, astrobiology/chemistry, synthetic biology, and control theory. I like whiteboards and dry erase markers and dirty models with clean math.