Postdoctoral Fellows

Alan Barozzi, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Microbial communities, Brine Pools, Extreme environemnts

Amal Bajaffer

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Marine conservation, Biodiversity, Environment, Environmental sustainability, Genomics, Metagenomics, Molecular biology, Molecular Evolution, Bioinformatics, ​Marine microbiology

Andrew Temple, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Biodiversity, Fisheries, Marine ecology, Machine learning, Statistical modelling, Socioeconomics, Species life history, Marine mammals, Elasmobranchs, Sharks, Fish, Sea turtles

Arun Prasanna Nagarajan, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Transcriptomics, Genomics, Phylogenomics

Aslihan Kartci, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Analog electronic circuits, Bio-impedance, Controller design, Fractional-order components and systems, Underwater robots

Barbara Ribeiro

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Sponges, Corals, Climate Change, Microbiome, Ecology, Probiotics

Bárbara Ribeiro

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Sponges, Corals, Climate Change, Microbiome, Ecology, Probiotics

Charlène Odobel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Microbial diversity, Extreme environments, Molecular biology, Stable isotope probing

Chuangcheng Fu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Blue carbon, Soil and sediment biogeochemistry, Climate Change

Craig T. Michell

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Genomics, Population structure, Evolution, Adaptation

Elisa Garuglieri, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Intertidal microbiology, Bacterial symbiosis in animals, Biofilms, Oxidative stress, Metaorganism, Evolutionary biology

Erika Santoro, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Marine microbiology, Microbial ecology, Molecular biology, Biotechnology, Probiotics, Biorremediation, Host-microbiome interactions

Eslam Osman, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Corals Ecology, Corals Resilience, Microbial ecology, Functional Microbiome

Hanin Alzubaidy, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, ​Marine microbiology, Extreme environments, Plant biology, Transcriptomics, Host-microbiome interactions

Junia Schultz, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Extremophiles, Extreme environments, Microbial ecology, Biotechnology of extremophiles, Astrobiology

Larissa Frühe, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecology, Environmental DNA, Ecosystem monitoring, Conservation biology

Lutfi Afiq-Rosli, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Coral reef ecology, Coral reef restoration, Population genomics, Conservation genetics

Marc W. Van Goethem, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, Metagenomics, Climate Change, Genomics of Microbes, Biological Soil Crust

Matthieu Ribot, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Tectonics, Marine Geosciences, Geomorphology, Geochemistry

Nicolas Oury

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: cryptic diversity, evolutionary ecology, genetic connectivity, integrative taxonomy, Metabarcoding, Molecular Ecology, population genetics/genomics, Phylogeny, scleractinian

Octavio Salazar Moya, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Salinity tolerance, Halophytes, Tissue Tolerance, Saponins

Phillipe Magalhães, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Microbial ecology, Coral Microbiology, Marine Probiotics, Marine symbioses, Host-microbiome interactions

Radharani Sen, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Physical Oceanography, Observational oceanography, Tropical ocean, Seasonal and Intraseasonal variability, Ordinary Differential Equations, Partial Differential Equations, Numerical methods, Finite element methods, Numerical ocean modeling

Samir Aljbour, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Jellyfish, UV radiation​, Marine pollutants, Stress response, Metabolic responses, Marine biology

Sdena Nunes, Ph.D.

​Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Phytoplankton pigments, HPLC, CHEMTAX, Chemotaxonomy, Marine ecology, Climate Change

Steve Doo

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Marine ecophysiology, Biogeochemistry, Global change biology, Ocean acidification, calcification

Yusuf Christian El-Khaled, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Physiological ecology, Physiological adaptation, Comparative physiology, Marine ecology, Stress physiology, Ecophysiology