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Quan Nguyen to join Bioengineering Ph.D. program at UPenn

Quan Nguyen to join Bioengineering Ph.D. program at UPenn

Quan Nguyen, an undergraduate Weitz Group member since 2020, just graduated with a B.S. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering. Quan has spent his time in the Group designing algorithms that estimate the risk scores of viral infections. This fall, Quan will be starting a PhD in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. “I want to […]

Quan Receives the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship

Quan Receives the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship

Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been selected by the Student Awards Committee of the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering as the recipient of the Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship. Awarded to the top international students in the School of Chemical and […]

Quan Accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation Program

Quan Accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation Program

Quan (King) Nguyen, a chemical & biomolecular engineering undergraduate that has been in the Weitz Group since 2020, has recently been accepted into the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) 2.0 program. Created by U.S. Congress in 2003 to “strengthen the bilateral relationship between the United States and Vietnam through educational exchange activities,” the program offers academic mentoring and […]

The group welcomes two new Ph.D. students

The group welcomes two new Ph.D. students

We are delighted to announce that the Weitz Grouprecently officially welcomed two Ph.D. students, Akash Arani and Raunak Dey. Akash is a first-year Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student in the School of Biological Sciences, while Raunak is a second-year Physics Ph.D. student. Learn more about Akash and Raunak.

Siya Xie Joins the NIH T32 InQuBATE Training Program

Siya Xie Joins the NIH T32 InQuBATE Training Program

Congratulations to Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. student and Weitz Group member Siya Xie for joining the NIH T32 Integrative and Quantitative Biosciences Accelerated Training Environment (InQuBATE). As an affiliated scholar, Siya will participate in InQuBATE’s training workshops and events, learning how to “develop a mechanistic understanding of integrative living systems spanning molecules, cells, to populations.” Learn more […]

Daniel Muratore to Join the Santa Fe Institute as an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow

Daniel Muratore to Join the Santa Fe Institute as an Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellow

Recent Quantitative Biosciences Ph.D. graduate and former Weitz Group member Daniel Muratore is set to begin the Omidyar Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) this September. As an Omidyar Fellow, Murature will have the opportunity to complete an up to three-year residency at SFI, where they will “contribute to the Institute’s research, advance the […]

Esther Gallmeier to join Applied Math PhD program at Cornell

Esther Gallmeier to join Applied Math PhD program at Cornell

Esther Gallmeier, an undergraduate in the School of Mathematics and a Weitz Group member since fall 2021, is set to graduate tomorrow. Mentored by postdoctoral researcher Jeremy Harris, Gallmeier has spent her time in the Group conducting theoretical modeling research on the effects of correlations between population susceptibility and transmissibility on epidemic dynamics. This fall, […]

The group welcomes Jeremy Seurat

The group welcomes Jeremy Seurat

Dr. Jeremy Seurat joins our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Seurat joins us from the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale, or the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research, where he completed is Ph.D. in biostatistics and biomathematics. Welcome Jeremy!

The group welcomes Gabi Steinbach

The group welcomes Gabi Steinbach

Dr. Gabi Steinbach joins our group as the new Scientific Project Coordinator and Data Communications Specialist. Steinbach joins us from her former position as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech. We are also excited for our former Scientific Project Coordinator and Data Communications Specialist, Dr. Jessica Irons, as she moves […]