Episode 31. Jason Shepherd is an Associate Professor at the University of Utah. He completed a postdoc at MIT, PhD in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins, and attended undergraduate at the University of Otago.
Episode 30. Sam Jones is the host of the Reactions YouTube series for the American Chemical Society. She is also a writer and podcast host Sam did her undergraduate at Vassar College and a PhD and UC San Diego
Episode 29. Hugo Tejeda is a Stadtman Invesigator at the National Institute on Mental Health. He did his undergrad at the University of Texas El Paso, his PhD at University of Maryland, and a postdoc at the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Episode 28. Margot Wohl is currently an intern at NASA. Margot recently finished her neuroscience PhD at UC San Diego and did her dissertation research at the Salk Institute. She completed her undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania.
Episode 27. Wendy Marie Ingram is the Founder and Executive Director at Dragonfly Mental Health. She did her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley and a postdoc at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Episode 26. Amanda Song recently completed her PhD in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. She studied at Fudan University and has done internships at Qualcomm, Tesla, TuSimple, and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. Since we recorded the podcast, Amanda defended her dissertation and started an internship at The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Congratulations Amanda!
James Tamerius: Senior Research Advisor at Center for Sustainable Energy This week’s guest, James Tamerius, has hardly had a linear career path. “I’ve never been really good at planning life decisions,” he admits to Nick. “I always just kind of let it happen.” Rather than constructing his future rigidly, James focuses on answering the problems…
Episode 24. Erin Calipari is an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Erin completed her PhD at Wake Forest, a postdoc at Mount Sinai, and her undergrad at University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Episode 23. Siddharth Krishnan is a postdoc at MIT and co-founder at Rhaeos. He did his PhD in Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and completed his undergrad at Washington University in St. Louis.
Episode 22. Caroline Sferrazza works in science communication and is a co-producer of the Once a Scientist podcast. Caroline earned a masters degree in neuroscience from UC San Diego and did her undergrad at Vassar College.