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The goal of the Postdoctoral Fellowship program is to provide additional research opportunities for students interested in pursuing an academic career. Participants in the program will receive mentoring to assist them in preparing themselves to enter a tenure track faculty position. This program is open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents who complete a Ph.D. in the science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) fields.

For further information visit the Michigan AGEP Alliance website.

Rosalynn Quinones

Rosalynn Quinones

I did my undergraduate in Industrial Chemistry at University of Puerto Rico-Humacao, and my Ph.D. in Surface Chemistry at Duquesne University with Dr. Ellen S. Gawalt as a thesis advisor. My research interests are material and polymer chemistry as well as modification of surfaces to be able to control the interface.

Chris Mendias

Chris Mendias

I am a native of Arizona. I grew up in Phoenix and attended the University of Arizona in Tucson. I received my B.S. in Biology and Athletic Training. After working as an athletic trainer for the University of Arizona Athletic Department, I decided to pursue a research career in musculoskeletal biology.

I received a master's degree in Physiology from the University of Arizona. My master's thesis, completed in the laboratory of Ronald Allen, focused on the effect of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on skeletal muscle stem cell activity.

I received my doctorate in Molecular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Michigan Medical School. I worked in the laboratory of John Faulkner, studying the regulation of the structure and function of skeletal muscles and tendons by the cytokine myostatin.

I'm currently a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan studying the molecular mechanisms responsible for the adaptation of skeletal muscle and tendon to mechanical loading. By studying the basic biology of the musculoskeletal system, I hope to contribute to the development of novel pharmacological and physical treatments for musculoskeletal diseases and injuries.

Carl McIntyre

Carl McIntyre

I received my Ph.D. in Macromolecular Engineering from the University of Michigan, and completed my undergraduate work as a dual degree student in chemistry/chemical engineering at Morehouse College and the Georgia Institute of Technology. My graduate work at the University of Michigan focused on smart functional materials including electrorheological and magnetorheological suspensions, which also included separate collaborative work in China and with European professors from Slovak Technical University.

For my postdoctoral work, I am working with Professor Peter Green to investigate nanocomposite polymer materials with an emphasis on creating processing procedures that can be quickly translated industrially to large-scale manufacturing. Additionally, I am currently working to incorporate new nanomaterials into electrorheological suspensions to better understand both the size effect of ER suspensions and the mechanisms by which electrorheology can be better understood.

Natasha A. Chang

Natasha A. Chang

I was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. She obtained a B.A. and a B.E. in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. After working as a Product Engineer for 5 years at Ford Motor Company, I joined and completed my doctoral work in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan, in August '07. Currently, I am a Research Fellow funded by the AGEP program, which allows me to continue my research work at the University of Michigan.

I work in the area of Cavitation and Multiphase Flow with Professor Steven L. Ceccio. Specifically, I study the suppression of cavitation inception of a tip vortex via mass injection to the vortex core of a polymer solution. My research is primarily experimental in nature; I investigate the flow physics influencing cavitation inception at the University of Michigan Water Tunnel and it scalability for propeller applications. My current research has applications in naval propulsion systems and the control of hydrodynamic sound sources.

Prior to my postdoctoral work, I studied the inception, dynamics, and noise emission of cavitation bubbles from a pair of anti-parallel vortexes. My experimental work at the University of Michigan water tunnel required the development of a new acoustic localization system with an accuracy of +/- L is the center frequency wavelength).

Ibrahim Danlami Bori

Ibrahim Danlami Bori

I received my Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from North Carolina State University, Raleigh in 2008 on a GEM Fellowship. My doctoral work with Professor Daniel L. Comins was focused on development of methodologies toward the asymmetric construction of analogs of an anticancer alkaloid Camptothecin and the synthesis of substituted quinolines.

As an AGEP Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor Anna Mapp’s research group in the Chemistry department at the University of Michigan, my work will be centered around synthesis and evaluation of small molecules that would be able to turn genes on or off depending on the desirable outcomes.

I was born in Ara, a rural farming community in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. I attended St. Patrick’s College, Ikot Ansa Calabar, Cross River State for my high school education. My college education began at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria and I later transferred to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC where I graduated with a B.A. degree in Biology in 1984. After several years of post undergraduate work experience, I received my M.S. degree in Organic Chemistry from North Carolina Central University, Durham under the auspices of Professor Wendell Wilkerson in 2003.

Bryan Glaz

Bryan Glaz

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Aerospace Engineering department at the University of Michigan. As a doctoral student, the focus of my research activities pertained to active/passive optimization of helicopter rotor blades for improved vibration, noise, and performance characteristics using surrogate-based approaches. This research has been the subject of multiple journal and conference publications, an invited talk at the NASA Ames Research Center, and collaborations with researchers from the University of Florida and Imperial College (UK). As a postdoctoral scholar my research interests include development of an unsteady drag model which can be used for improved rotor blade performance calculations, and investigating the effects of model uncertainty on hypersonic vehicle aeroelastic stability calculations.

Contact

Debby Mitchell
Program Manager
University of Michigan
Rackham Graduate School
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070
E-mail: debmitch@umich.edu
Phone: (734) 647-5767

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