Kirsten Chojnicki is a postdoctoral appointee in Geomechanics at Sandia National Laboratories and a member of the Center for Frontiers of Subsurface Energy Security. She is an experimental geophysicist, specializing in the mechanics of geologic fluid flows. She has an M.S. and Ph.D. in geology from Arizona State University and a B.S. in earth and space sciences from the University of Washington. Before joining Sandia, she was a Scripps Postdoctoral Fellow in Geophysics and Planetary Physics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.