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Chancellor's and President's Postdoctoral Fellows 

These are the new and continuing Postdoctoral Fellows for the 2024 - 2025 academic year. For past Chancellor’s and President's Postdoctoral Fellows appointed in 1996 onward, please visit the fellows directory

  • Christopher William Anderson

    Christopher William Anderson

    2024 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Experimental Pathology, Yale University
    Department: Bioengineering
    Mentor: Andrew McCulloch, Professor of Medicine
    Research Topic: The role of cardiac-resident macrophages in decompensatory remodeling after non-ischemic injury
  • Christian Cazares

    Christian Cazares

    2024 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Neuroscience, University of California, San Diego
    Department: Cognitive Science
    Mentor: Dr. Bradley Voytek
    Research Topic: Developing multimodal biomarkers of cognitive ability in a genetic model of neurodevelopment
  • Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes

    Ana Georgina Cobián Güemes

    2024 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Cell and Molecular Biology, San Diego State University and University of California, San Diego
    Department: Pathology
    Mentor: David Pride, Professor of Pathology
    Research Topic: Boosting jumbo phages to combat multidrug resistant bacteria infections
  • Michelle Herrera

    Michelle Herrera

    2024 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine
    Department: Scripps Institute of Oceanography
    Mentor: Dr. Ricardo Betancur-R, Associate Professor of Marine Biology & Dr. Patrick Rohner, Assistant Professor of Ecology, Behavior, & Evolution
    Research Topic: Revealing the drivers of the animal gut microbiome
  • Carla Macal

    Carla Macal

    2024 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Geography, University of Oregon
    Department: Literature
    Mentor: Gloria Chacón, Professor of Literature
    Research Topic: Weaving Transformative Memory with Maya Literature across the Hemisphere
  • Caitlin H. Miller

    Caitlin H. Miller

    2024 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Neurobiology & Behavior, Cornell University
    Department: Psychology & Cognitive Science
    Mentor: Dr. Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku & Dr. Eran Mukamel
    Research Topic: Pregnancy-induced neural plasticity and its effects on maternal behaviors
  • Lamar Samanta Thomas

    Lamar Samanta Thomas

    2024 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Microbiology, The State University of New York at Binghamton University
    Department: Pediatrics
    Mentor: Victor Nizet, Pediatrics and Pharmacy
    Research Topic: Uncovering the ability of a current Strep throat vaccine, called Vax-A1, to provide cross protection for vaginal Strep colonization
  • Devontae Baxter

    Devontae Baxter

    2023 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Physics, University of California, Irvine
    Department: Astronomy & Astrophysics
    Mentor: Dr. Alison Coil, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
    Research Topic: Galaxy Evolution  
  • Debbie Ledezma

    Debbie Ledezma

    2023 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Immunology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
    Department: Nanoengineering
    Mentor: Dr. Nicole Steinmetz, Department of Nanoengineering
    Website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5-bKn1QAAAAJ&hl=en
  • Filipe Pereira

    Filipe Pereira

    2023 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Oceanography, University of São Paulo and University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
    Department: Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    Mentor: Jennifer MacKinnon and Drew Lucas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
    Research Topic: Nonlinear feedbacks between smaller scale physical and biological processes during harmful algal blooms 
    Website: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Filipe-Pereira-15
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    Isabella Restrepo

    2023 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Department: Ethnic Studies
    Mentor: Daphne Taylor-Garcia, Department of Ethnic Studies
    Research Topic: Criminalization, Girlhood Studies, Youth Studies, Feminist Abolition, Abolition Feminism Women of color feminisms, Latinx Studies, Feminist methodologies, Chicana methodologies, Chicana studies, queer of color critique, medical oppression, pathologization  
    Website: https://isabellarestrepo.academia.edu
  • Pamela Riviere

    Pamela Riviere

    2023 Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Cognitive Science, University of California, San Diego
    Department: Cognitive Science
    Mentor: Dr. Bradley Voytek, Department of  Cognitive Science
    Research Topic: Variance in neural signals  
  • Tye Rush

    Tye Rush

    2023 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
    Department: Political Science
    Mentor: Thad Kousser, Department of Political Science
    Research Topic: The origins of voter identification laws and impact of race/ethnicity and electoral competition in legislators’ support for voter identification bills  
    Website: https://tyerush.com
  • Palashi Vaghela

    Palashi Vaghela

    2023 President's Postdoctoral Fellow
    Degree: Ph.D., Information Science, Cornell University
    Department: Communications
    Mentor: Lilly Irani, Professor of Communications
    Research Topic: Computing Begumpura: archival and ethnographic research of labor, gender and caste in global computing 

For past Chancellor’s and President's Postdoctoral Fellows appointed in 1996 onward, please visit the fellows directory