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# Sara Imari Walker

> Directory entry from Antikythera Wiki (https://antikythera.wiki/people/sara-imari-walker), an independent guide to Antikythera's published work. Roles and affiliations as published.

- **Role:** Editorial board; Affiliate researcher 2024; journal author (Vol. 2025)
- **Affiliation:** Arizona State University
- **Group:** Editorial board
- **Website:** https://search.asu.edu/profile/1731899

Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University working on the origins of life, artificial life and life detection; co-developer with Lee Cronin of assembly theory, which Bratton cites as an influence on the research program. She is on the journal's editorial board and an Affiliate Researcher 2024. In the corpus she wrote *Recursive Worlds* (with Neo-Metabolism), a lecture on assembly theory and the technosphere as Earth's newest layer.

## In the corpus

- [Recursive Worlds](https://antikythera.wiki/work/journal/recursiveworlds) (2025-05-10)

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