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Yiwei Xu
Yiwei Xu (Ph.D., 2023, Cornell University) is a postdoctoral scholar at the UW Center for an Informed Public (CIP). Her research focuses on examining and developing theory-driven communication strategies that address persistent and emergent public health challenges (e.g., racial disparities, vaccine hesitancy, misinformation, gun violence, etc.), with the goal of promoting evidence-based policies and health…
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Dominik Graeff
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Nuclear-, Particle-, and Astrophysics at the Technical University Munich. Dr sc at ETH working on Cryoseismology, Postdoc at UW working on Fiber-optical sensing of the cryosphere.
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Madeline Jalbert
I am broadly interested in how context and metacognitive experiences influence judgment and decision-making. My current research focuses on why people believe and share information. I apply this work to understand why misinformation spreads and to help develop strategies for effective misinformation correction. In my research, I utilize a variety of inferential statistical methods including…
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Daniel Kessler
Dan completed his PhD in 2023 at the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan where he was advised by Professor Liza Levina. He is currently an NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Washington where he works with Professor Daniela Witten; in addition, he is concurrently both a PIMS-Simons and…
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Gemma O’Connor
I am a Washington Research Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the School of Oceanography. My research aims to uncover the historical drivers of ice loss in West Antarctica so that we can better understand and predict future ice loss. In West Antarctica, melting occurs via extremely complex ice-ocean-atmosphere processes. The complexity of this problem is compounded by being…
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YeonJoon Cheong
YeonJoon is a postdoctoral scholar at the Applied Physics Laboratory at the University of Washington. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. His graduate research focused on improving acoustic imaging systems using metamaterial/bio-inspired approaches. At the Applied Physics Laboratory, his research focuses on developing physics-based computational models to understand the…
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Gavin Pharaoh
Dr. Pharaoh is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Radiology at the University of Washington in the Translational Bioenergetics Lab of Dr. David Marcinek. His work is focused on the study of mitochondrial dysfunction in aging and age-related disease, specifically age-related muscle loss (sarcopenia). He is supported by the Biological Mechanisms of Healthy Aging…
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Matthew Berg
Matthew Berg is a postdoctoral scholar working in Dr. Judit Villén lab’s in the Department of Genome Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of Western Ontario under the supervision of Dr. Chris Brandl where he studied how mutations in transfer RNA (tRNA) genes alter the translation of the genetic code and affect protein…
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Data Science Profile: Michelle Ndugulile
By: Louisa Gaylord Michelle Ndugulile (‘23) recently graduated from the University of Washington with a B.S. in Biology and a minor in Data Science. Prior to her undergraduate studies at UW, Michelle was interested in a variety of STEM subjects, such as math, anatomy, and physiology. But it was biology that captured her interest the…
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Echopype: Ocean Acoustics
Partners Wu-Jung Lee, Senior Oceanographer, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW Emilio Mayorga, Researcher, Applied Physics Laboratory at UW eScience Institute/SSEC Engineers Valentina Staneva, Senior Data Scientist Don Setiawan, Senior Software Engineer Scientists commonly use active sonar systems to collect data about mid-trophic level animals, such as zooplankton and small fish that play an important role…