Pinoy Scientists in the United States of America

Shannen Recio is a research intern at Eerkens Anthropology Lab where she studies ancient diet, diseases, and forensics.

Emzo de los Santos is a research career development fellow at Warwick Integrative Synthetic Biology Centre where he develops computational tools for the analysis and engineering of biosynthetic gene clusters.

Eric Jay Daza is a senior statistician in data science at Clarify Health, a digital health/healthcare tech company improving care through software solutions for patients, clinicians, providers and payers.

Irene Crisologo is a postdoc at Northwestern University’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. She is working on developing open-source workflows for processing radar data for rainfall retrieval, comparison with satellite-based precipitation data and post-event analysis of rainfall-induced natural disasters.

Angelita Acebes is an entomologist and applied ecologist whose research focuses on insect biology, behavior and ecology with the goal of developing sustainable and effective management strategies against insects that are detrimental to agricultural production.

Geric Magbitang is a chemist and environmental manager currently pursuing a Masters in Environmental Management. His current research focuses on analyzing the effects of socio-economic parameters and the level of nearby water bodies’ plastic pollution in Metro Manila.

Edward Pajarillo is a neuroscientist and microbiologist and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida, USA.

Ian de Vera is a pharmacologist and biologist. He is currently Assistant Professor and Director of the Protein Core Facility at the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.