Elena

Elena is a post-doctoral researcher in the molecular neurobiology lab of Nicola Allen at the Salk Institute. She studies astrocytes, a special cell type in the... Read more about Elena

Lauren Aguirre

Director of New Media, NOVA

Lauren Aguirre has led NOVA’s general audience digital initiatives since the launch of its first web site in 1996. Prior to that she produced...

Ari Daniel Shapiro

Ari Daniel has always been drawn to the natural world. As a graduate student, Ari trained gray seal pups (Halichoerus grypus) for his Master's degree at the...

Josh Wolff

Graduate Student, Technology and Policy Program, MIT

I am a graduate student in MIT’s Technology and Policy Program, and I have an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Vermont. My research...

Anzar Abbas

Graduate Student at Emory University

Anzar received his doctorate from Shella Keilholz’s lab at Emory University in 2018. While in graduate school, he was a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at the Howard... Read more about Anzar Abbas

Marc Abrahams

Editor and co-founder of Annals of Improbable Research
Founder of the Ig Nobel Prize

From 1990-1994, Marc was the editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results. In 1994, after the magazine's publisher decided to abandon the magazine, the... Read more about Marc Abrahams

@MarcAbrahams

marc@improbable.com

Cat Adams

Grad Student, University of Washington in Ecology and Evolution

Cat received her BS from the University of Washington in Ecology and Evolution and is now a first year PhD student in Organismal and Evolutionary Biology at...

Adebola Adeniran

Adebola is a Ph.D. candidate in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern and earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University...

Sarah Adeyemo

Sarah Adeyemo just finished being a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Soil and Crop Science in the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS... Read more about Sarah Adeyemo

Brian Aguado

Graduate Student, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

Dr. Brian Aguado completed his Ph.D. at Northwestern University in the Biomedical Engineering department as an NSF Fellow in the...

David Aguilar

Director of the Public Affairs and Educational Outreach Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

David Aguilar directs the Public Affairs and Educational Outreach Department at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A naturalist...

Emily Aguirre

Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography Ph.D. Candidate at University of Southern California

Emily is a Los Angeles native and first-generation, Central... Read more about Emily Aguirre

Sheheryar Ahsan

Digital Media Producer, The Brain Scoop, The Field Museum

Working as the Digital Media Producer for ‘The Brain Scoop’ at the Field Museum, Sheheryar Ahsan has cultivated his passion for video production into his...

Grace Akese

PhD candidate at Memorial University

Grace Akese is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Geography at Memorial University. Her research interest sits at the intersection of discard studies and... Read more about Grace Akese

gaa538@mun.ca

Liz Albertorio

Ph.D. Candidate in Immunology

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Liz Albertorio is an advocate for the creation of physical forums where scientists can interact and communicate their...

ComSciCon

The Communicating Science workshop for graduate students

Participants