2025
For the Pivot 314 2025 Cohort
Marlene Campos Guerrero
PhD candidate in Cancer Biology | Entering Year: 2020 | Research interests: detection and treatment of cervical cancer, bridging the gap between the scientific community and the public with an interest in science communication and outreach.
Chinwe Chukwu
PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering Year: 2021 | Research interests: therapeutic ultrasound, noninvasive brain drug delivery, ultrasound neuromodulation.
Drew Crenshaw
PhD student in Public Health Sciences | Entering Year: 2023 | Research interests: community resilience, environmental justice, climate change, and urban studies.
Kathy Duong
PhD candidate in Chemistry | Entering Year: 2021 | Research Interests: biofilms, chronic lung infections, cystic fibrosis.
Esse Evbuomwan
PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering | Entering Year: 2021 | Research interests: engineering microbes to deliver therapeutics for colorectal cancer and phenylketonuria, blending expertise in synthetic biology and microbiology.
Jacqueline Garnett
PhD candidate in Biological Anthropology | Entering Year: 2020 | Research interests: evolvability, evolutionary morphology, and public engagement with science.
Nico Herzberg
PhD candidate in Germanic Languages and Literatures | Entering Year: 2021 | Research Interests: Contemporary Literature; Translation; Germany and Latin America; Literary/Cultural Theory; Language Pedagogy; Book History.
Morgan Payne
PhD candidate in Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology | Entering year: 2022 |
Research interests: Characterizing and regulating critical protein-protein interactions in disease pathogenesis, specifically studying inflammatory proteins and modulating their signaling activity.
Yuxuan Ren
PhD student in Energy, Environmental & Chemical Engineering | Entering year: 2022 |Research interests: characterizing atmospheric composition using the combination of in situ measurements, global models, and satellite remote sensing.
Katherine Tilghman
PhD candidate in Hispanic Studies | Entering Year: 2021 | Research Interests: representations of kinship, community, and care in novels by Mexican and Argentine women published from the 2010s-present, and how these representations dialogue with issues raised by contemporary Latin American feminisms.
Gemechu Tolossa
PhD candidate in Neurosciences | Entering year: 2021 | Research interests: decoding information
embedded in neuronal activity, critical neural dynamics in computational models and in vivo.
Haoran (Matt) Wan
PhD candidate in Psychological & Brain Sciences | Entering Year: 2021 | Research Interests: behavioral economics and decision-making, with an emphasis on the cognitive processes underlying everyday choices, including financial and health-related decisions.