Dr. Jacob R. Lau is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Film and Media Studies working with Professor Fatimah Tobing Rony. His work theorizes transgender through postcolonial, queer of color, and historical materialist theorizations of time and historicism that push against and suggest alternatives to purely linear temporalities, situating trans within traditions of…Continue Reading Jacob Lau
Dr. Leonel Malacrida works with Prof. Enrico Gratton in the Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, Department of Biomedical Engineering. Leonel’s research focuses on the implementation of new fluorescence microscopy methods to study various complex biological processes. Some of these include water activity in a cellular nucleus, identifying lung pathologies in imaging, and evaluating complex fluorescent species….Continue Reading Leonel Malacrida
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