Pinoy Scientists

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.

Aissa Domingo is an artist, photographer, and illustrator for the Zoology Division at the National Museum of the Philippines. Notably, Aissa led the reconstructive painting of the replica and actual taxidermy specimen of Lolong—the largest crocodile in captivity.

Edwin Miguel Anadon is a forensic anthropologist. He has worked as a research associate on a variety of projects including human osteology and the investigation of human remains collected as Japanese war dead from World War 2.

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.

Ciara Juan is a PhD student in Exercise Biochemistry at Ulster University in the UK. Ciara’s thesis is exploring the relationship between epigenetics and aging.

Ralph Chan is a PhD student in sociology at the University of Vienna. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis on school-to-work and youth-to-adulthood transition from a sociological perspective.

Angelica Suarez is a PhD student taking up pharmaceutical chemistry at the National University of Singapore. Aica is undertaking the genome mining and functional studies of modifying enzymes found in certain natural product pathways.

Ven Paolo Valenzuela is a Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Paolo’s research synergizes social and natural science methods to holistically understand contemporary disaster risk reduction, climate change, and sustainable development.

Jezeree Gajelomo is a Master’s student in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology at the University of Valencia. Jezeree’s Masters thesis currently revolves around dismantling the glass ceiling—namely identifying the effects of work and family demands on the access of women to top management positions.