The ComSciCon Leadership Team has responsibility for guidance, oversight, and continuity of ComSciCon's national workshop programs and its local & specialized franchises nationwide. It is composed of current and former members of ComSciCon national workshop Organizing Committees.

Alison Caldwell

Co-creator, writer, and co-host of Neuro Transmissions

Alie Caldwell completed her PhD in Neurosciences at UC San Diego in 2019, where she studied glial biology and genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the... Read more about Alison Caldwell

Ben Cook

Graduate Student

Ben entered the Ph.D. program in Astronomy at Harvard in 2014, after completing his undergraduate work in Astrophysics at Princeton. His main scientific focus is on the formation and evolution of galaxies.... Read more about Ben Cook

@bacook17

Personal website

Maria Drout

Hubble, Carnegie-Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
ComSciCon Co-founder

I am currently a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science and a Research Associate at the Dunlap Institute...

Eric Earley

Postdoc, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Eric Earley is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Biomechatronics and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory, where he is developing lifelike sensory feedback to... Read more about Eric Earley

@EricJEarley

Personal Website

Stephanie Hamilton

Chair

Stephanie Hamilton is a PhD graduate in Physics from the University of Michigan and a Technical Communications Associate at the MIT School of...

Rose Hendricks

Kavli Civic Science Fellow

Rose is a social scientist who works to support positive relationships between science and society. She is currently the Kavli Civic Science Fellow,...

Erica Palma Kimmerling

Graduate Student, Tufts, Biomedical Engineering

Erica is a National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Predoctoral research fellow at Tufts University. She earned her bachelors of...

Susanna Kohler

Science Highlights Editor, American Astronomical Society
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Astronomy
ComSciCon Co-founder

I received my PhD from University of Colorado Boulder in 2014, with my dissertation work spanning two fields: high-energy astrophysics and science...

John Lewis

Graduate Student, Harvard Astronomy

John Lewis is a Ph.D. student in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Harvard. His...

Shayle Matsuda

Graduate Student in Marine Biology at San Francisco State University

Shayle Matsuda is an MSc student at the California Academy of Sciences and San Francisco State University, where he studies the evolutionary history and...

Carrie McDonough

Postdoctoral fellow at Colorado School of Mines

Carrie is a postdoctoral fellow at Colorado School of Mines, where she uses advanced analytical chemistry techniques (LC-QToF-MS) to identify...

Shannon M. Morey

Teacher, Abbott Lawrence Academy
ComSciCon Co-founder

Shannon is a chemist, a leader in K12 STEM education, and one of the founding members of the ComSciCon organizing team. Shannon teaches physics and...

Jamila Pegues

Harvard University, Department of Astronomy

Jamila Pegues is a 5th-year graduate student at Harvard University, where she is pursuing a Ph.D in Astronomy and a Master of Science in Computational...

Nathan E. Sanders

ComSciCon & Astrobites Co-Founder
Harvard Astronomy PhD
Applied Statistician & Data Scientist

As a Ph.D. student in Astronomy at Harvard University, Nathan helped to develop and lead a variety of science education and outreach programs, including Astrobites and ComSciCon, to foster interest in astronomy and related disciplines at all age levels.... Read more about Nathan E. Sanders

Astrobites

Sadie Witkowski

Senior Copywriter, AbelsonTaylor

Sadie (Sarah) Witkowski completed her PhD in psychology at Northwestern University with a focus on brain, behavior, and cognition. Her dissertation focused on... Read more about Sadie Witkowski

@SadieWit

@PhDrinking

The Communicating Science workshop for graduate students