Eleven students from disciplines spanning the humanities, engineering, the sciences and the social sciences have been named Presidential Postdoctoral Analysis Fellows at Princeton.

The Presidential Postdoctoral Analysis Fellows program acknowledges and helps excellent students who will make necessary contributions of their fields. By bringing collectively students throughout tutorial fields, this system permits them to deepen their disciplinary experience whereas testing out new concepts from different disciplines. These students will contribute to the College’s excellence and its range, broadly outlined. Monetary help is offered for as much as two years at full wage.

“Now we have introduced in a gifted cohort of students from numerous sectors of American society and from throughout the globe,” mentioned Frederick Wherry, vice dean for range and inclusion within the Workplace of the Dean of College and the Townsend Martin, Class of 1917 Professor of Sociology. 

Wherry continued: “They run the vary of the college’s disciplines, however they share of their potential to deal with a few of the greatest challenges of their disciplines and on the earth. These cohorts of gifted future school allow us to satisfy our core objectives of fantastic instructing and modern analysis.”

The 2023 Presidential Postdoctoral Analysis Fellows are listed under.

From left: Alexander Adames, Stevie Custode, Estela Diaz, and J. Felix Gallion

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Alexander Adames joins the Division of Sociology, finding out social stratification and inequality, with a deal with instructional inequality and racial inequality within the U.S. Adames holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in sociology from the College of Pennsylvania, an M.A. in statistics from the Wharton College, College of Pennsylvania, and a B.A in sociology from the College of Virginia. He’s co-advised by Yu Xie, the Bert G. Kerstetter ’66 College Professor of Sociology and the Princeton Institute for Worldwide and Regional Research, Professor of Sociology Tod Hamilton, and Assistant Professor of Sociology John Robinson.

Stevie Custode joins the Division of Psychology. Her analysis focuses on how the contextual elements of on a regular basis environments affect kids’s early language and social interactions and finally their language growth. Custode holds a Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the College of Miami, an M.A. in utilized psychology from New York College, and a B.A. in psychology from the College of Tennessee. She is suggested by Professor of Psychology Casey Lew-Williams.

Estela Diaz joins the Division of Sociology. Her analysis examines the commodification of kid rearing by a case examine of personal nursery, preschool and kindergarten admissions in New York Metropolis. From Columbia College, Diaz holds a Ph.D., M.Phil. and M.A in sociology, and she or he earned her A.B. in sociology from Princeton College in 2014. She is suggested by Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs Jennifer Jennings.

J. Felix Gallion joins the Division of English, with a deal with interdisciplinary approaches to the examine of media, race, labor and migration. Gallion’s present analysis explores U.S. agriculture as a carceral system by the lived experiences of Mexican American/Chicanx farmworkers. Gallion holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in English from the College of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in English and American research from Cornell College. He’s suggested by Monica Huerta, assistant professor of English and American research and the Donald A. Stauffer Bicentennial Preceptor.

From left: Archontoula Giannakopoulou, Amna Liaqat, Marayna Martinez, and Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo

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Archontoula Giannakopoulou joins the Division of Chemical and Organic Engineering, with a analysis objective to deepen understanding of the design ideas of biotechnological instruments for quite a few purposes within the areas of renewable power, the atmosphere and human well being. She goals to develop novel multifunctional artificial programs, involving a number of facets of nano-biotechnology and artificial biology, to deal with challenges of renewable power and the atmosphere. Giannakopoulou holds a Ph.D. in biotechnology and a diploma of biology (intergraded grasp) from the College of Ioannina, Greece. She is suggested by José L. Avalos, affiliate professor of chemical and organic engineering and the Andlinger Middle for Power and the Surroundings.

Amna Liaqat is appointed within the Middle for Data Expertise Coverage. Her analysis seeks to construct social applied sciences that assist folks join, collaborate and study in new methods. Liaqat holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in laptop science from the College of Toronto and a B.S. in enterprise administration and laptop science from Simon Fraser College. She is suggested by Andrés Monroy-Hernández, assistant professor of laptop science.

Marayna Martinez joins the Division of Politics. Her work goals to grasp how childhood experiences with Ok-12 public faculties and insurance policies affect grownup political conduct, significantly amongst Individuals of coloration. Martinez holds a Ph.D. in political science and public coverage from Duke College and a B.S. in political science and electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Expertise.  She is suggested by Tali Mendelberg, the John Work Garrett Professor of Politics.

Laetitia Mwilambwe-Tshilobo joins the Division of Psychology. Her work focuses on loneliness and social connection, aiming to establish the mechanisms driving the suggestions loop between how loneliness shapes mind perform and the way mind perform determines folks’s skill to attach. Mwilambwe-Tshilobo holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from McGill College, an M.A. in developmental psychology from Cornell College, an M.Sc. in biology/neuroscience from the College of Hartford, and a B.A. in neuroscience from the Faculty of Wooster. She is suggested by Diana Tamir, professor of psychology.

From left: Sultan Abdul Wadood, Maha Yusuf, Erik Župa

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Sultan Abdul Wadood is appointed within the Division of Electrical and Pc Engineering. His analysis makes use of quantum-inspired strategies to enhance classical imaging and communications. Wadood holds a Ph.D. in optics from the Institute of Optics on the College of Rochester and a B.E. in electrical engineering from the Nationwide College of Sciences and Expertise, Pakistan. He’s suggested by Jason Fleischer, professor {of electrical} and laptop engineering.

Maha Yusuf joins the Division of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, the place she’s going to mix her experience in superior neutron and X-ray-based characterization with physics-based modeling and 3D manufacturing to engineer anodes for long-life lithium-metal-free solid-state batteries. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in chemical engineering from Stanford College. She holds a B.E. in chemical engineering from Nationwide College of Sciences and Expertise, Pakistan. She is suggested by Kelsey Hatzell, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Middle for Power and the Surroundings. 

Erik Župa is appointed within the Division of Molecular Biology. His analysis focuses on revealing the molecular particulars by which malaria and associated parasites transform their membranes. Župa holds a Ph.D. in biology from Heidelberg College, Germany, and from Masaryk College Brno, Czech Republic, an M.S. in biomolecular chemistry and a B.S. in biochemistry. He’s suggested by John Jimah, assistant professor of molecular biology and James A. Elkins, Jr. ’41 Preceptor in Molecular Biology.