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

PhD Student, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

I work at the Center for Bionic Medicine, focusing my research on developing intuitive robotic prosthesis control for arms and hands.

@EricJEarley

Personal Website

Pinar Gurel

Graduate Student, Biochemistry, Dartmouth

I have a background in chemistry from UNC-Chapel Hill, and am currently a fifth year graduate student in the biochemistry department in the Geisel School...

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...

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...

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

Psychology, Northwestern University

Sadie is a PhD candidate at Northwestern University in the Brain Behavior and Cognition area of the Psychology department. Her research focuses on sleep...

ComSciCon

The Communicating Science workshop for graduate students

ComSciCon Leadership Team