Meet Dr. Andrew Marshall, a postdoc working with Dr. Sean Ostlund in the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Care. Andrew’s research interest is in the psychological and neurobiological correlates of decision-making. He is trying to find out how cues from the environment can result in individuals’ making decisions they may not normally make. Decision-making is…Continue Reading Andrew Marshall
Dr. Lisa Olshansky is an American Chemistry Society Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral fellow. She works with Prof. Andrew Borovik in the Department of Chemistry. Lisa is constructing multinuclear artificial metalloproteins in which a synthetic metallocofactor is inserted into a protein host, which can be further modified through mutagenesis. With this, the effects of secondary sphere…Continue Reading Lisa Olshansky
Dr. Phu Nguyen is a recently appointed Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He worked as a postdoc at UCI with Distinguished Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian. Phu’s research focuses on flood modeling and forecasting, and the development of various global precipitation products observed by satellites including: event-based large scale rainfall systems using…Continue Reading Phu Nguyen
Dr. Sarah Aarons works with Asst. Prof. Kathleen Johnson and Prof. Eric Saltzman in the Department of Earth System Science. Her research is in ice core chemistry, where she measures organic and inorganic chemicals in ice cores to reconstruct biomass burning in the Northern Canadian Arctic. This is important to constrain how the rates of forest…Continue Reading Sarah Aarons
Dr. George Stiubianu works with Prof. Alon Gorodetsky in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. He is interested in producing dynamic materials that control infrared radiation. The aim of this is to develop clothing that can regulate the temperature of the wearer, which can have applications in everyday clothing and in camouflage. George received…Continue Reading George Stiubianu
Meet Dr. Jessica Cassidy, a postdoc in the laboratory of Dr. Steven Cramer in the Dept. of Neurology. Her projects focus on central nervous system repair in humans and encompass telerehabilitation, neuroimaging, and EEG application in stroke. She earned her Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science with a Neuroscience minor at the University of Minnesota where her research utilized transcranial…Continue Reading Jessica Cassidy