Field
Location (during time of takeover)
School/Institution
| Undergrad | Ateneo de Manila University Physics |
|---|---|
| Masters | Colorado State University Atmospheric Science |
| PhD | Colorado State University Atmospheric Science |
Featured on May 4, 2025
With the month of May ahead of us, we’re ushering in new beginnings with Pinoy Scientist Gabrielle “Bee” Leung who just last week successfully defended her doctoral dissertation for her PhD in Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University (CSU) in the United States of America.
Bee graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Physics from Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) as magna cum laude and the department’s Program Awardee. For her undergraduate studies, she served as a research assistant at the Manila Observatory and spent the summer of 2018 as a student intern at the Tokyo Metropolitan University Climatology Laboratory. She also participated in NASA’s Cloud, Aerosol and Monsoon Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2Ex). Having received the CSU Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering Graduate Fellowship, she began studying at Colorado State University and earned her Master’s in Atmospheric Science in 2022. During this time, she worked as a graduate research assistant for the van den Heever Research Group under which she has published numerous papers.
Bee has since been a doctoral student at CSU for Atmospheric Science working on her dissertation entitled “Aerosol and Land Surface Impacts on Tropical Convective Processes”. At present, she is also a science team member for the Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project and the NASA INvestigation of Convective UpdraftS (INCUS) Mission.
Some fun facts about Bee:
- She just successfully defended her PhD dissertation last Wednesday!
- She majored in Physics as an undergrad, but she also has a minor in Creative Writing. She was the editor-in-chief of HEIGHTS Ateneo, the literary and arts magazine at ADMU. She probably spent as much time (if not more) writing poems and essays as she did in her physics classes or working on her thesis project.
- She has a license from the US FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to fly drones. In her research, they use drones to study the atmosphere before, during, and after storms.
