Pinoy Scientists in the United States of America

Gregor Ethan Posadas is a Master’s student and graduate research assistant at the Boise State College of Engineering, United States studying how delivering high concentration dissolved oxygen to wastewater treatment bioreactors affects plant performance.

Gabrielle Leung is working on her PhD in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU) in the USA. She has just successfully defended her dissertation entitled “Aerosol and Land Surface Impacts on Tropical Convective Processes.”

Herdeline Ann Ardoña, PhD is a materials chemist that specializes in developing biomaterials, bioelectronics, and biosensors. With numerous publications and a patent under her belt, she heads the Ardoña Research Group where they develop macromolecular-based materials that serve as sensors and modulators for various biological processes.

Lesly Zaren Endrinal is a Failure Analysis industry expert clocking in 25 years of experience in the field. Her thesis was on the failure analysis of microelectronic devices.

Robert Aguilar is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, United States of America and Vice President of GradMAP Philippines. He is currently studying the genetics involved in the nervous system development of C. elegans.

Hillary Diane Andales is a passionate science communicator and incoming PhD student at the University of Chicago. Her current work explores the formation of neighboring ultra-faint dwarf galaxies using computer simulations.

Rebecca Jean “RJ” Millena is currently taking up her PhD in Comparative Biology from the Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History, United States. She is studying twisted-wing insect parasites (Strepsiptera) where she is making thorough use of the collections at the American Museum of Natural History to investigate their host-parasite relationships, evolution, and genomics.

Mark Ivan Ugalino is a PhD researcher in Astronomy at the University of Maryland, College Park. For his current project, Mark is exploring how magnetic fields grow in Milky Way-type galaxies and investigating its effect on stellar formation, galaxy morphology and cosmic ray transport.

Danielle Pua, MD is a licensed medical doctor by trade. She is currently a research fellow for neuro-immunology at the Multiple Sclerosis Center of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Massachusetts, USA where she tests various therapies for the management of multiple sclerosis.

Donatela Manlongat is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology. She also spends her time working as a student therapist at numerous clinics around California.

Federick “Fed” Pinongcos is an engineer at Trussell Technologies in San Diego, USA. His Masters thesis explored anthropogenic pollutants during storm events in urban Mediterranean waterways.

Arielle R. Gamboa is a PhD candidate and graduate research assistant at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Her recent research work sees her in the Energy Transport Research Lab where she focuses her attention on the field of heat transfer, studying the fundamental physics of liquid cooling for electronics.

Jovale Vincent Tongco is a chemist who specializes in wood chemistry and forest biomaterials. He has worked on a variety of projects exploring the processing and potential uses of lignocellulosic biomass.

Alyssa Gimenez is a PhD student in Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Her masteral research explored the impact of a green space intervention on premature aging among the Pilipinx community in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mikaela Fudolig is a physicist and computational social scientist currently based at the University of Vermont. Her research aligns with computational social science, a highly interdisciplinary field that uses quantitative approaches on (usually big) data to understand human behavior.

Marizza Delgado is a data scientist on Etsy’s Product Analytics team and Miss New York Earth USA 2021. She uses statistical methods to generate insights that inform product, engineering, and business decisions.

Julliane Negre is an aspiring physician-scientist and current Biological Sciences undergraduate at Marquette University. For her undergraduate project, she is characterizing and developing a bacterial enzyme as a novel antibiotic drug target.

Charles is a joint postdoctoral research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He currently investigates the molecular causes of neuronal death in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism (XDP), a uniquely Filipino disease endemic to his father’s hometown, the Panay Island of the Philippines.

Erica Asinas is a research scientist and program manager at the Climate Impacts Group of the University of Washington. She conducts social sciences and policy research to support climate adaptation projects.

Jane Garcia is a Physics PhD student at the University of California Merced (soon going to Johns Hopkins University!) At UC Merced, Jane is currently working on understanding the self-organization of topological defects in liquid crystal phase transitions.