Pinoy Scientists

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.

Valerie Valeriano is a research engineer at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. Currently, she is working on developing a culturomics platform for women’s health and oncobiomics.

BA Racoma is a PhD student in Meteorology as well as Atmosphere, Oceans and Climate at the University of the Philippines and University of Reading. His research tackles tropical cyclones and rainfall over the Philippine mountain ranges.

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.

Jewel Yabut is a molecular biologist and phylogenist who has recently finished her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from Korea University. Her research focuses on the Phylogeny of an insect group (Trichoptera) that can be found in clean streams and rivers.

Gerard See is a pharmaceutical scientist whose research focuses on the development of novel silicone-based adhesives of patches for transdermal delivery of medicines.

Pierangeli Vital is an environmental microbiologist whose research aims to answer food safety issues and focuses on identifying contamination in agricultural products and sources.

Manuel Holz is a “half-German half-Cebuano” sociologist whose research focuses on the quantitative analysis of migration and inequality.

Pat Lazatin is a medical student and researcher whose research focused on novel therapies that would improve post-ischemic stroke outcomes in patients.

Valerie Diane Valeriano is a molecular infection biologist whose research focuses on the understanding of the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes.

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.

Noel Lito Sayson is a laser physicist whose research is mainly focused on developing a low-cost, low-power, widely tunable optical source suitable for mid infrared spectroscopy.

Aimee Dupo is the UP Los Baños Museum of Natural History’s curator for moths and spiders, as well as a Professor and Graduate School Secretary at UPLB. She has described more than 49 species of spiders and 22 species of rice black bugs.

Gabriel Villamil is a molecular biologist pursuing his Ph.D. at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany.

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.

Paul Baniqued is a biomedical engineer, currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Leeds, UK, where his study aims to improve the functionality of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) and robotics for stroke rehabilitation..

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.