Postdoc of the month
NUPA is highlighting one or two postdocs every month on our website, in our newsletter, and on social media as a reward for their accomplishments —a paper, an award, or research grants. You could send us your nominations (your colleague or yourself) by filling this form.
Dr. Pei Su
Meet Dr. Pei Su! He is a postdoctoral researcher in Prof. Neil Kelleher’s lab leading the development of spatial proteomics technology. He has recently published a paper in Science Advances demonstrating highly-multiplexed imaging of proteoforms directly from human tissues.
Previously Featured Postdocs
DR. MOHAMMAD HOSSEINI (March 2023)
Dr. Mohammad Hosseini is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Mohammad was recently selected for membership in the Global Young Academy (GYA).
DR. DING ZHENG (November 2022)
Dr. Ding Zheng is postdoc in the Chemistry Department. Ding led 2 major research published in Nature Materials and ACS energy letters, about highly stretchable organic electrochemical transistor and high-performance Hole transporting materials for perovskite solar cells.
DR. KUSHTRIM AHMETI (September 2022)
Dr. Kushtrim Ahmeti is a post-doctoral fellow in the Neurology and Clinical Neurological Sciences Department.
DR. JOSHUA TROPP (August 2022)
Dr. Joshua Tropp is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He won the 2022 PMSE Future Faculty Award and will give an oral presentation at the upcoming ACS National Meeting in Chicago. The symposium “features oral presentations by talented postdocs who have made significant contributions to their respective fields within polymer materials science and engineering (e.g., synthesis, processing, characterization, physics and engineering of polymeric materials.”
DR. Xingjie Wang (April 2022)
Dr. Xingjie Wang is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry working on the design and synthesis of high-crystalline porous materials, including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and metal oxide clusters.
Dr. Leighton Jones (April 2022)
Dr. Leighton Jones is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemistry with Prof. George Schatz. His research interests are in the field of computational chemistry, which includes developing catalytic reaction mechanisms to probe their inner workings both kinetically and thermodynamically.
DR. PAVLO KOSTETSKYY (March 2022)
Dr. Pavlo Kostetskyy is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in Prof. Linda J. Broadbelt’s group. His research focuses on using multi-scale computational tools to model chemical reactions and processes toward producing renewable fuels and chemicals.
Dr. Markus Rottmann (March 2022)
Dr. Markus Rottmann is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Cardiovascular Research Institute at Feinberg School of Medicine working on functional, structural, and molecular mechanisms in atrial fibrillation.
DR. ROBERT PANKOW (February 2022)
Robert is an Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Fellow in Prof. Tobin Marks’ Group in the Department of Chemistry at Northwestern University. He is working on the design and synthesis of acceptor polymers for all-polymer solar cells with a keen focus on developing structurally-simple polymers with improved light-harvesting capabilities.
DR. YEONSIK CHOI (February 2022)
Yeonsik is a postdoctoral fellow in the Rogers Research Group at Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. His research focuses on developing next generation cardiac pacemaker for neonatal and pediatric patients with necessity of cardiac electrotherapy that can address long-standing needs of small, wireless, and low-risk pacemakers.
Dr. Yosi Kratish (January 2022)
Yosi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry. He is working on chemical recycling of plastics.
Dr. Monica Rosas Lemus (January 2022)
Monica is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases in the Department of Microbiology-Immunology at Feinberg School of Medicine. She is working on a drug discovery project to target the 2¢-O-methyl transferase from SARS-CoV-2.
Dr. Dale Susan George (December 2021)
Dale George is a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Daniela Menichella in the department of Neurology. As a team, they focus on understanding chronic pain mechanisms, especially the painful diabetic neuropathy, a debilitating complication of diabetes.
Dr. Liang Feng (December 2021)
Liang is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemistry. He is working on working on the development of the next generation of smart materials with controllable heterogeneity and tailorable architectures.
Dr. Cat Majors (November 2021)
Dr. Cat Majors is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. She is working on an enzyme self-amplification system for ultrasensitive detection of protein biomarkers and she was was awarded an NIH fellowship.You can follow her on Twitter (@CatMajors), on Instragram (@catmajors), or on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinemajors/)
Dr. Thomas Stoeger (August 2021)
Dr. Thomas Stoeger is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. He was awarded an NIH grant for his project entitled “Integrative Multi-Scale Systems Analysis of Gene-Expression-Driven Aging Morbidity”. He characterizes biases within the biomedical sciences to identify important but overlooked research questions.
Dr. Rachael Stickland (July 2021)
Dr. Rachael Stickland is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University, The Feinberg School of Medicine and has recently published in the NeuroImage Journal on “A practical modification to a resting state fMRI protocol for improved characterization of the cerebrovascular function”. You can reach her on Twitter @DrStick_Ray and on LinkedIn (linkedin.com/in/rstickland-phd).