# Robert Hazen
**Entity class:** Person
**Domain:** mineralogist and astrobiologist
## Definition
**Robert Hazen** is a mineralogist and astrobiologist. At ICE, joined Carol Cleland and Marcelo Gleiser for What Is Life?.
## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments
Carnegie scientist whose work spans mineral evolution, origins of life, deep carbon, Earth systems, data-driven mineralogy, and NASA astrobiology.
## Relationships
- **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]].
- **wider alignments:** Carnegie Science, NASA Astrobiology, Deep Carbon Observatory, mineral evolution, and origins of life.
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [Institutional or primary profile](https://hazen.carnegiescience.edu/)
- [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)