School: Ateneo de Manila University

Jose Alfonso Ignacio “Oey” Mirabueno is a project coordinator for the Bachelor of Music Curriculum Review of the University of the Philippines (UP) College of Music. His work revolved around decolonizing heritage curation through improving accessibility, transferring agency, and diversifying the dialogue around sound recordings made by colonial powers and heritage curation.

Samantha Julia Eala is a lecturer at Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, research officer at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (MSPGH), University of Melbourne and a project manager at the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health (ASMPH). She examines how climate change affects women and children, and how this can shape health system policies and programs.

Jose Joy “JJ” Gepanaga, a PhD Candidate at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is studying how to align scientific innovation, regulation, and policy in the field of precision oncology.

Neil Joshua Limbaga is a PhD student at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Sensors Group, Saudi Arabia who earlier this year worked with McLaren Racing of Formula One fame. His research focus is in integrated wearable systems for high-performance sports and health.

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.”

Rebecca “Becca” Georgia Yu is a graphic designer and science communicator who specializes in marine science. She is a freelance designer and a Research Associate at the Marine Science Institute (MSI), University of the Philippines.

Janina Carla Castro is a science communicator with a history in environmental science and sustainability. Some recent science communication work she has done include curating the “Making the Invisible Visible” pop up exhibition at the University of the Philippines about bird window collision, and working with the Ocean Media Institute for the making of the short film “I Am Ocean” about fisherfolk in Palawan.

Cesar Miguel Fabro is a Masters student at the University Paris Saclay. For Cesar’s final semester under the program, he investigated how electrostatics influence hydrogen evolution catalysis in nickel porphyrins.

Dr. Keith Nealson “Keano” Penado is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Ateneo de Manila University. His work with plasma first studied its effect on rice seed germination, then its use in the pyrolysis of polystyrene.

Marco Polo Ibanez, an atmospheric scientist currently working as a science research specialist for DOST – PAGASA where he is making full use of his expertise in Radar and Disdrometer data analysis as a team member for the Volcano, Ocean, Typhoon, and Earthquake (VOTE) Project.

Joseph Bandoy is a PhD student and research assistant at South Korea’s Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology. Joseph’s research interests include qualitative phase imaging and physics education.

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.

Yumi Briones is a chemist, researcher, and CEO extraordinaire. She a researcher at the University of the Philippines and also the co-founder and CEO of Savon Cleaning Solutions.

Ingrid Espinosa is an intern at the Imperial College Policy Forum in London, England, where she writes and edits policy briefs as well as other content for policy engagement.

Jethro Gallardo is a product engineer for GPU Chip Ops at NVIDIA Taiwan. Jethro’s responsibilities include analyzing product yield limiters, defining product test requirements, driving new product introduction, and continuously finding opportunities to improve the product process.

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.

Johnny Altomonte is the CEO and founder of Verne Energy Solutions where he operates and implemented sustainable energy projects, from renewables to energy efficiency.

Alexa Abangan is a Marine Sciences graduate from Sorbonne University and is about to start her PhD journey with the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) where she will explore fish behavior and develop machine learning technologies.

Aeiou Martija is a doctoral researcher at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. For his doctoral research, Aeiou is currently exploring the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying glioblastoma, a fast-growing and aggressive brain tumor.