Pinoy Scientists

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.

Krystel Mae Peñaflor is a licensed forester, conservationist, and climate analyst currently working as an Environmental Health and Safety Officer at Kenelton Engineering Services. She also leads two co-founded youth organizations: Youth Climate Navigators and EmpoWoment Storytellers: Women for Climate and Biodiversity.

Al-Ahmadgaid Asaad is a statistician and data scientist currently working as the manager for Advanced Analytics at Johnson & Johnson, where he leads a team of data scientists that deal with volume/demand forecasting and possess automation, among others..

Lawrence Limjuco is a chemical engineer and senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines (UP) Diliman, teaching courses for materials science and chemical engineering. He is also leading several DOST projects investigating materials for next generation batteries and policy research for waste-to-energy sustainability.

Mark Jayson Felix is a Senior Science Research Specialist at the Philippine Space Agency under the Earth Sciences Space Mission Studies Division where he puts his expertise on remote sensing to use by conducting research related to water quality and air-water interactions.

Keziah Bartilad is a Senior Science Research Specialist at the Philippine Space Agency. Her work includes the day-to-day operations of the Diwata-2 satellite and other space assets, ground station maintenance and repair campaigns, the creation and updating of standard operating procedures, strategic research and development activities, and the procurement of necessary equipment and spare parts.

John Leur Labrador is the the Chief Science Research Specialist of the Philippine Space Agency’s Spacecraft Mechanical and Autonomous Systems Development Division. He is also a Project Manager for the MULA satellite project, the next-generation Philippine satellite for earth observation.

Princess Cabotaje is a PhD student in Chemistry specialising in Molecular Biomimetics at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her PhD project seeks to utilise the diversity of hydrogenase for energy applications.

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.

Ramuel Tamargo is an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman’s Department of Chemical Engineering and Head of the Advanced Materials and Organic Synthesis Laboratory. His research interests include the environmentally friendly synthesis of organic and inorganic materials, UV filters and chemical/nanomaterial-based sensors, and natural products among others!

Chosel Lawagon is the Director of Green Nanotechnology Innovations for Environmental Solutions and Director of the Institute of Emerging Technologies at the University of Mindanao. Chosel has worked on a variety of research projects, including leveraging food waste for myriad applications.

Deborah Tangunan is a micropaleontologist, biogeochemist, and palaeoclimate scientist, and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences in Cardiff University, UK. Currently, she is working on the biogeochemistry of marine calcifying organisms, and what they can tell us about ocean productivity, carbonate chemistry, and ecosystem function to better understand the present and future climate scenarios.

Syrus Gomari, transportation scientist, CEO and founder of Mobility Vision Plus (MoVi+), a company that uses computer vision and data science to develop a next-generation urban mobility planning product.

Lorenz Chua is a postdoctoral researcher at the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). Lorenz’s research revolves around high-resolution transcriptomic profiling using single-cell RNA-sequencing and spatial transcriptomics, with a special emphasis on respiratory diseases like COVID-19 and pulmonary fibrosis.

Leslie Yasis is a licensed chemical engineer and PhD candidate in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research interests are focused on antimicrobial filters and bio aerosols.

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.

Christina is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist using AI to map the brain’s information highways. Her research interests are in the structure and function of the brain in chronic neurological disorders.

Joan Talubo is an Assistant Professor at the UPLB Department of Community and Environmental Resource Planning. Her doctoral thesis assessed island socio-ecological resilience for disaster risk and recovery planning in the Philippines.

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.