FAS Research and Academic Exchange

@HarvardHistSci welcomed Javiera Green this month! A fifth-year PhD candidate in Literature at @umiamiohio, her dissertation project explores conceptions of madness in 20th and 21st-century African-American novels.

@HarvardHistSci @umiamiohio Her areas of interest include Mad methodology, Afropessimism, trauma theory, and Black Feminist theory. Before pursuing a PhD, Javiera was a high school English teacher for 4 years. Thank you for sharing your work with us, Javiera! Great to have you!

@HarvardHistSci welcomed Javiera Green this month! A fifth-year PhD candidate in Literature at @umiamiohio, her dissertation project explores conceptions of madness in 20th and 21st-century African-American novels.

@HSCRB @HaniffaLab @UniofNewcastle @sangerinstitute She has specialized in the fields of bioinformatics, single-cell analysis, immunology, developmental biology, and neurobiology. It was wonderful having you, Dr. Webb!

@HSCRB welcomed Dr. Simone Webb in late February! A Research Associate in the @HaniffaLab at Newcastle University @UniofNewcastle and Visiting Scientist at Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute, she is interested in how blood and immune formation is regulated in development.

@HarvardSoc @PENNSTATEU1 The Sociology of Science and Religion Funding Initiative have supported her work. As a proud first-generation college grad + daughter of Mexican and Salvadorian immigrants, she received her Ph.D. in Sociology from @RiceUniversity + holds degrees from UT Dallas + @SouthernMethod.

Welcome to Dr. Esmeralda Sánchez Salazar, who is visiting Prof. Daniel Schneider in @HarvardSoc! She is a Postdoc Fellow in the Dept of Sociology & Criminology + an affiliate of the Population Research Institute (PRI) at @PENNSTATEU1. Her pioneering research examines ➡️

@HarvardSoc @PENNSTATEU1 the extent to which educational, familial + religious institutions shape the higher education and science outcomes of marginalized racial, ethnic, and immigrant groups, particularly Latinos and English Learners. Esteemed bodies like the @NSF, @theNASEM, @FordFoundation, and ➡️

@TiyaMilesTAM @universityofga Her research emphasizes the African American community + fair housing practices. Past research topics include redlining, the New Deal, @HUDgov, and the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta. She currently serves as a graduate assistant at the UGA Special Collections Libraries.

Welcome to Maya Brooks, visiting @TiyaMilesTAM this week! A 4th year PhD candidate at @universityofga interested in researching the intersections of race, class, gender, and economics in the 20th and 21st century United States, she is also a Georgia historian. ➡️

He collaborated with Dr. Ann Pearson (Dept of Earth + Planetary Sciences, @Harvard) on archaeal lipid biomarkers + is now a @NOAA Climate & Global Change Postdoctoral Fellow at @uarizona with Dr. Jessica Tierney @leafwax, reconstructing past climates using geochemical proxies.

Welcome Dr. Ronnakrit "Ronnie" Rattanasriampaipong! A geoscientist with expertise in geology, geochemistry, and paleoclimatology, he earned a bachelor’s degree in geology and a master’s in petroleum geoscience from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. ➡️

After 5 yrs as a petroleum geologist with Chevron Thailand, he shifted to academic research, pursuing a Ph.D. in oceanography at @TAMU, where he conducted research in paleoceanography and organic geochemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Yige Zhang, completing his PhD in 2023. ➡️

What's the RAE like? In the words of one visitor, its' "one of the most rewarding experiences in my academic career thus far. It has really helped me gain clarity...[around] what a career in the academy could look like for me." Apply by 11/1 for spring 25! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

@PENNSTATEU1 Her research aims to answer the question “What can neutrinos tell us about the Universe?”. Her expertise is in data analysis to measure neutrino oscillations and applications of machine learning in neutrino experiments.

Welcome to Dr. Kayla Leonard DeHolton! She's a postdoc researcher at Penn State University specializing in neutrinos and astroparticle physics. Neutrinos are one of the most abundant known particles in the Universe, yet they are one of the least well understood. @PENNSTATEU1➡️

@UDelaware conducted state-of-the-art measurements of the flavor ratio of astrophysical neutrinos. She was also a part of the team that found a break in the neutrino energy spectrum with IceCube.

Welcome to Aswathi Balagopal! A Bartol Postdoctoral Scholar from Bartol Research Institute @UDelaware, she works on multimessenger studies of neutrinos and gamma-rays. She finished her PhD at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany where she studied radio detection of ➡️

@UDelaware joint emission of neutrinos detectable in IceCube and gravitational waves detected in LIGO/Virgo detectors from binary mergers. She studied diffuse neutrinos from a TeV and above in energy, detected by IceCube, and➡️

@UDelaware air showers at the South Pole + using them to detect gamma rays of PeV energy from the Galactic Center. As a PostDoctoral Scholar at WIPAC, University of Wisconsin-Madison, she worked on multimessenger studies of gravitational waves and neutrinos, leading efforts for search for➡️

Welcome to Mingyue Tang! @tang_mingyue is a Ph.D. student in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, working with Prof. Giuseppe Torri. Her research focuses on atmospheric sciences, utilizing advanced modeling tools to study tropical cloud dynamics.