Taylor Perron is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. After receiving his A.B. from Harvard, he spent a year at the US Geological Survey in Menlo Park, CA, working for the Earthquake Hazards and Surface Processes Teams. He then went on to earn his PhD in geomorphology and planetary science from Berkeley. Taylor studies Earth and planetary surface processes. On Earth, he uses field observations, high resolution topography from laser altimetry, cosmogenic nuclide measurements of erosion rates, and numerical models to study the long-term evolution of landscapes. In his planetary research, he uses spacecraft data and field analogs to reconstruct past and present surface conditions from landforms observed on rocky planets and icy moons, especially Mars and Titan.