Dr. Daniel Cuppoletti is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on March 12th. His presentation is titled “From Jet Engines to Vocal Cords: Fluid Dynamics and Aeroacoustics”. ABSTRACT: Aerospace engineers are well known for their work on airplanes, jet engines, and rockets. This has required pushing the boundaries of fluid dynamics research on the experimental…
Category: Featured Postdocs
Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Dominik Hartmann
Dr. Dominik Hartmann is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on Febuary 11th. His presentation is titled “Uncovering the relationships between productive structures and income inequality”. BIO: Dr. Dominik Hartmann is a complexity economist and EU Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the MIT Media Lab (US) and the University…
Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Sudha Kumari
Dr. Sudha Kumari is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on Febuary 11th. Her presentation is titled “Cell-cell contacts in immune response”. BIO: Dr. Sudha Kumari is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Koch Institute of Integrative Cancer Research. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Kumari completed a PhD in…
Featured Postdoc (Seminar speaker): Dr. Bilge Atasoy
Dr. Bilge Atasoy is presenting at the Postdoc Seminar Series on Febuary 11th. Her presentation is titled “Optimizing a flexible mobility on demand system”. BIO: Dr. Bilge Atasoy has been a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT working with Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva since December 2013. Prior to joining Intelligent Transportation Systems…
Featured Postdoc (Travel grant winner): Dr. John Barton
Dr. John Barton was awarded a PDA travel grant for the Jan-June 2015 cycle. BIO: Dr. John Barton obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers University in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Joel Lebowitz. There he studied the statistical mechanics of simple one-dimensional lattice models and methods of…
Featured Postdoc (Travel grant winner): Dr. Paul Brown
Dr. Paul Brown was awarded a PDA travel grant for the Jan-June 2015 cycle. BIO: Dr. Paul Brown obtained his Msci in Chemistry from the University of Bristol, UK. After a small break he then returned to Bristol to complete his postdoctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Julian…
Featured Postdoc (Travel grant winner): Dr. Michael J. Mitchell
Dr. Michael J. Mitchell was awarded a PDA travel grant for the Jan-June 2015 cycle. BIO: Dr. Michael J. Mitchell obtained his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in July 2014 from Cornell University, in the laboratory of Dr. Michael R. King. His graduate work focused on the development of “Unnatural…
Featured Postdoc (Travel grant winner): Dr. Christopher Rowlands
Dr. Christopher Rowlands was awarded a PDA travel grant for the Jan-June 2015 cycle. BIO: Dr. Christopher Rowlands received a Masters in Chemistry from Imperial College London in 2001, studying reaction optimization in microfluidic devices as a final-year project. His PhD studies were at Cambridge University in the group…
Featured Postdoc (Travel grant winner): Dr. Li Tang
Dr. Li Tang was awarded a PDA travel grant for the Jan-June 2015 cycle. BIO: Dr. Li Tang is currently an Irvington Postdoctoral Fellow in Dr. Darrell Irvine’s lab at MIT. Dr. Tang received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign while working as a NIH M-CNTC…
Featured Postdoc (Travel grant winner): Dr. Stefano Santaguida
Dr. Stefano Santaguida was awarded a PDA travel grant for the Jan-June 2015 cycle. BIO: Dr. Stefano Santaguida did his PhD studies in the lab of Andrea Musacchio at the European Institute of Oncology (Milan, Italy) where he studied the molecular mechanisms underlying the proper execution of mitosis, focusing…