Education:
B.S - Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 2012
Ph.D. - University of Pennsylvania, 2019

Ph.D Dissertation Title:
"The Human Lung Viral Microbiome in Health and Disease"

Ph.D Thesis Advisors:
Frederic D. Bushman, Ph.D.
Ronald G. Collman, M.D.

UPenn Dept:
Not applicable

Penn/CHOP Faculty Mentor:
Joseph Zackular, Ph.D.

Education:

PhD Social Work and Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

MSW Social Work, MS Developmental Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

BA African American Studies, BA Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD

PhD Dissertation Title:"We gon' be alright": Racism, Media and the Sociopolitical Development of
Black Youth

PhD Thesis Advisor:Stephanie Rowley,PhD & Daphne Watkins, PhD

UPENN Department:
Human Development and Quantitative methods

Penn Faculty Mentor:  
Howard Stevenson, PhD

Education:
2017 PhD Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
2010 BS Biology, University of Texas Permian Basin

PhD Dissertation Title:
Mechanism of Protein Acetylation in Mitochondria

PhD Thesis Advisor:
John M. Denu

Postdoc Research Topic:
Biochemical mechanisms of protein turnover

Penn Department:
Biochemistry and Biophysics

Penn Faculty Mentor:
Benjamin A. Garcia

Education:
PhD, Mechanical Engineering,
MA, Mechanical Engineering,
BA, Mechanical Engineering
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Thesis Title:
Regular and Irregular Wear of Elastomers in Combined Rolling and Sliding

Thesis Research Advisor:
W. Gregory Sawyer

Postdoc Research Topic:
Interfacial Mechanics of Soft Matter

Penn Department:
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Penn Mentor:
Kevin Turner and Rob. Carpick

Education:
Ph.D and M.A. in, Higher Education and Organizational Change
University of California-Los Angeles
B.A. in History, Dartmouth College

Thesis Title:
A Critical Case Study on (Anti) Blackness, Geography, and Education Pathways in Twinsburg, Ohio.

Thesis Research Advisor:
Dr. Walter Allen

Penn Department:
Graduate School of Education – Higher Education

Penn Mentor:
Dr. Laura Perna

Education:
PhD Biomedical Sciences
School of Biomedical Engineering, Sciences and Health Systems at Drexel University

PhD Dissertation Title: 
Biomechanics of the Pericellular Matrix: Roles in Cartilage Development and Osteoarthritis

PhD Thesis Advisor:
Dr. Lin Han

UPENN Department:
Orthopaedic Surgery Department

Penn Faculty Mentor:
Dr. Robert L. Mauck

Education:
2018, PhD Chemistry, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
2013, BS Chemistry, Hope College, Holland, MI

PhD Dissertation Title:
Tailoring Surface Forces to Control the Frictional Properties of Graphene

PhD Thesis Advisor:
James Batteas

Postdoc Research Topic:
Anti-wear (AW) Tribofilm Formation

Penn Department:
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Penn Faculty Mentor:
Rob Carpick

Education

Ph. D., Developmental Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
M.S., Developmental Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, China
B. A., Psychology, Shanghai Normal University, China

PhD Dissertation Title:
Relations Between Childhood Self-Control And Early Adulthood Outcomes In China: The Contributions Of Social Relationships

PhD Thesis Advisor: Dr. Xinyin Chen, Professor of Education, University of Pennsylvania
UPENN Department: My department at CHOP is “Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences”
Penn Faculty Mentor: Dr. Stephen Leff,
Co-Director, Violence Prevention Initiative at CHOP
Professor of Clinical Psychology in Pediatrics & Psychiatry
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia; Univ. of Penn School of Med.

Education:
2015, PhD, Immunology and Infectious Disease,
Washington State University, Pullman WA

2011, MS,Forensic Science,
California State University, Fresno, CA

2007, BS, Medical Biology,
California State University, Riverside, CA

Thesis Title:
Identification and Characterization of a Genome-wide Significant Region Associated with Erythrocyte Phenotypes in Domestic Sheep

Thesis Research Advisor:
Stephen White

Postdoc Research Topic:
Genetics of Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain in Pediatric Populations

Penn Department:
Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Rheumatology, Children's Hospital

Penn Mentor:
Hakon Hakonarson, MD PhD and David Sherry, MD

Education:
PhD, Public Health,
M Phil, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
California State University, Fresno, CA

BS, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Thesis Title:
Environmental Heterogeneity, Rodent Population Dynamics, and Leptospirosis in Urban Slum Environments

Thesis Research Advisor:
Dr. Albert Ko

Postdoc Research Topic:
Dynamic Risk Map Modeling in Changing Urban Environments

Penn Department:
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics

Penn Mentor:
Dr. Mike Levy

Education:
2016, PhD, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY

2010, BS, Chemistry and Animal Science,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

PhD Dissertation Title:
Mapping Sites of O-Glycosylation on Drosophila Notch and Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms of How Drosophila Fringe Modulates Notch-Ligand Binding

PhD Thesis Advisor:
Robert S. Haltiwanger

Postdoc Research Topic:
Optic Nerve Regeneration in Zebrafish

Penn Department:
Cell and Developmental Biology

Penn Faculty Mentor:
Michael Granato

Education:
PhD - Texas A&M University , College Station, TX
BS - University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Puerto Rico

PhD Dissertation Title: 
The Secret Lives of Battery Materials: Core-level Spectroscopy as a Probe of Compositional and Electronic Structure Inhomogeneities

PhD Thesis Advisor:
Professor Sarbarjit Banerjee

Penn Department:
Chemistry

Penn Faculty Mentor:Professor Thomas E. Mallouk

Education:
PhD, Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY – 2018
MA, Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY -- 2016
MPhil, Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY -- 2016
BA, Philosophy, The College of Charleston -- 2012
BS, Psychology, The College of Charleston -- 2012

Thesis Title:
The Fragmented Mind: Why working memory cannot implement consciousness.

Thesis Research Advisor:
Jesse Prinz

Penn Department:
Philosophy

Penn Mentor:
Lisa Miracchi

Education:
Ph.D in Urban Planning and Development, University of Southern California
Master in City Planning, Environmental Policy and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.A. in Urban Studies with Honors, Minor in African & African-American Studies, Stanford University

Thesis Title:
The Geography of Black Commerce and Culture - Los Angeles, California, and Beyond

Thesis Research Advisor:
Lisa Ann Schweitzer

Penn Department:
City and Regional Planning

Penn Mentor:
Vincent Reina

Education:
2019 PhD Molecular Biology
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

2008 BS Biology
Millersville University

PhD Dissertation Title:
The Role of the Vg1 Zebrafish Ortholog Gdf3 Nodal-Dependent Mesendoderm Formation and Left-Right Patterning

PhD Thesis Advisor:
Rebecca Burdine PhD

UPENN Department:
Cell and Developmental Biology

Penn Faculty Mentor:
Mary Mullins, PhD

Education (Undergrad, grad, doctorate)
• BSN: University of Connecticut (Storrs)
• MS: University of Connecticut (Storrs)
• PhD: University of Connecticut (Storrs)
PhD Dissertation Title
• Understanding Chronic Pain Trajectory in Adolescents Undergoing Spinal Fusion Surgery
PhD Thesis Advisor
• Dr. Angela Starkweather
UPENN Department
• Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (primary), Penn School of Nursing
Penn Faculty Mentor
• Dr. Martha A.Q. Curley, Professor Penn School of Nursing Professor and CHOP Ruth M. Colket Chair in Pediatric Nursing

Education:
2016, PhD, Rutgers University,
Camden, NJ

2009, BA, Princeton University
Princeton, NJ

Thesis Title:
An extension of the Bianchi-Egnell stability estimate to Bakry, Gentil, and Ledoux's generalization of the Sobolev inequality to continuous dimensions and applications

Thesis Research Advisor:
Eric Carlen

Postdoc Research Topic:
Functional Analysis and PDEs

Penn Department:
Mathematics

Penn Mentor:
Ryan Hynd

Personal Website: https://web.sas.upenn.edu/seuffert/

Education:
2019 PhD Social Welfare
Robert Stempel College of Public Health & Social Work; Florida International University

2006 MS Psychology
College of Arts, Sciences and Education;School of Integrated Science and Humanities
Florida International University

2002 BA Psychology
College of Arts, Sciences and Education;School of Integrated Science and Humanities
Florida International University

PhD Dissertation Title:
The impact of microaggressions and minority stress on the psychological  well-being of emerging adult
sexual minorities of color

PhD Thesis Advisor:
Eric F. Wagner, PhD

Penn Department:
School of Social Policy & Practice

Penn Faculty Mentor:
Amy Hillier,PhD

Education:
2015, PhD, Immunology and Infectious Disease,
Washington State University, Pullman WA

2011, MS,Forensic Science,
California State University, Fresno, CA

2007, BS, Medical Biology,
California State University, Riverside, CA

Thesis Title:
Identification and Characterization of a Genome-wide Significant Region Associated with Erythrocyte Phenotypes in Domestic Sheep

Thesis Research Advisor:
Stephen White

Postdoc Research Topic:
Genetics of Amplified Musculoskeletal Pain in Pediatric Populations

Penn Department:
Center for Applied Genomics, Division of Rheumatology, Children's Hospital

Penn Mentor:
Hakon Hakonarson, MD PhD and David Sherry, MD

Laura Vargas, PhD, MSW, MPA
Penn Injury Science Center
School of Nursing