Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship
Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Research Group:
Alyosha C. Molnar
Research: Optical Wireless Integrated Circuits
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Cornell University
Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Research Group:
Peter B. McIntyre
Research: The effects of fish biodiversity on the supply and resiliency of nutrients and toxins across Earth’s major tropical inland fisheries
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Columbia University
Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Melissa J. Ferguson
Research: How implicit social cognition may produce inequality
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Harvard University
Science & Technology Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Suman Seth; Jolene K. Rickard
Research: Examining the historic material conditions through which genomic biomedicine engages with Native American tribes, health care bureaucracy, and native identity today
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Lab of Ornithology
Research Group:
Irby J. Lovette
Research: A bird’s-eye view on bird migration
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Oxford
Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, College of Engineering
Research Group:
Matthew P. DeLisa
Research: On-demand, cell-free biomanufacturing of conjugate vaccines at the point-of-care
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Computer Science, College of Engineering/Computing and Information Science
Research Group:
John Nathan Foster
Research: Computer Networks
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Cornell Tech; Cornell Law School
Research Group:
James Grimmelmann
Research: Intersection of technology, culture, and law
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Southern California
Cornell Law School
Research Group:
Josh Chafetz
Research: Nineteenth-century United States slavery, government, and constitutionalism
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Physics, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Daniel Ralph
Research: Information transformations of spintronic, photonic, and magnetic states in two-dimensional hybrid materials
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Ohio State University
Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering
Research Group:
Ilana L. Brito
Research: Designing tissue models of inflammatory bowel disease
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of Wisconsin, Madison
ILR School
Research Group:
Pamela Tolbert
Research: Antidiscrimination law interpretation over time
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Yale University
Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences/College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Cedric Feschotte
Research: The regulatory role of transposable elements (TEs) in disease development and progression
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Freie University, Berlin
Government, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Peter Enns
Research: Ashok examines factors that inform economic policy preferences and support for particular candidates with a focus on perceptions of inequality.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Yale University
Research Story: Interpreting Public Opinion
Asian Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Brett de Bary
Research: Campana studies creative engagements with emerging technologies in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and media, with an emphasis on poetry, digital media, and disability.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Harvard University
Research Story: Poets, Artists, Game Makers, and New Media
Astronomy, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Gordon Stacey; Michael Niemack
Research: Currently working with the Cerro Chajnantor Atacama Telescope-prime and the Simons Observatory projects, Choi specializes in precision cosmology, including cosmic inflation, dark energy, and the Epoch of Reionization.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Research Story: Telescopes to Help Decode the Cosmos
History, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Peter R. Dear
Research: Cooley explores the intertwining of human, animal, and environmental history, with an emphasis on the topic, race—how it evolved from a descriptor for controlled animal progeny to a human phenotype categorization.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Stanford University
Research Story: Humans, Animals, Race, History—Intertwined
Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences; Cornell Law School
Research Group:
Andrew C. Willford
Research: Cooper studies people across power divides in social services institutions.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Research Story: Juxtaposed—Mental Health, Criminal Justice
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Research Group:
Anurag Agrawal
Research: Coverdale examines evolutionary tradeoffs in biodiversity with a focus on the defensive strategies of plants.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Princeton University
Research Story: How Plants Defend Themselves—Over Time
Molecular Biology and Genetics, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Andrew G. Clark
Research: Lin studies microbe-host interactions, concentrating on the beneficial relationships between microbe and host, including the gut-bacteria partnership.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Research Story: Bacteria and Their Hosts, Good Companions
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Geoffrey Coates; Brett Fors
Research: Stache concentrates on innovative synthesis techniques for the creation of new polyketones and biodegradable polymers.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, Colorado State University
Research Story: Plastics, Can’t Get Away from Using Them
Chemistry and Chemical Biology, College of Arts and Sciences
Research Group:
Peng Chen
Research: Rong Ye, also known as Rocky, investigates catalysis, with emphasis on developing techniques for seeing single particles in action.
Previous Affiliation: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Research Story: Catalysis—Focusing in to See the Action