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Research Program Mentors

Polygence mentors are selected based on their exceptional academic background, teaching experience, and unique ability to inspire the next generation of innovative thinkers and industry leaders.

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Michael

Michael

MD

Expertise

Increasing Value in Healthcare, Health Innovation, Public Speaking, Medicine, Health Disparities, Molecular Biology

Rob

Rob

PhD candidate

Expertise

Population Genetics, Mutation, Evolution, Molecular Biology, Biology, Genetics, Molecular Evolution, Statistics, Mutation Accumulation, C. elegans, D. melanogaster, S. cerevisiae

Jillian

Jillian

MFA candidate

Expertise

English, Journalism, Creative Writing, Personal Essays, Memoir, YA Fiction

Margaret

Margaret

MBA candidate

Expertise

MBA, Supply Chain Operations, Chemical Engineering, Film Production

Will

Will

PhD candidate

Expertise

Ethics, Political Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Work with Philosophy and the social sciences, Writing for the Humanities, philosophical ideas in film and literature

Jamie

Jamie

MS

Expertise

web applications, mobile apps, databases, software engineering, git, DevOps

Kristen

Kristen

PhD candidate

Expertise

Environmental History; Medical Anthropology; colonial, post-colonial, de-colonial studies; feminist anthropology; the social study of science and technology; East African history; Imperialism; social science; creative writing & ethnographic writing/autoethnography

Madison

Madison

PhD candidate

Expertise

engineering, product design, market research, design for social impact, entrepreneurship and business planning

Henry

Henry

MA

Expertise

Any projects in the humanities or social sciences! I particularly enjoy literature, language, and culture, but I also enjoy helping students write about fields like politics, IR, and technology.

Tatyana

Tatyana

Industry expert

Expertise

Accounting and finance

Zoey

Zoey

MD/PhD candidate

Expertise

economics, medicine, healthcare, public health, policy, data science, classics, biology, chemistry

Briana

Briana

MBA candidate

Expertise

fashion, business, creativity, aligning tech and data with fashion, cloud application, commercialization of tech

Magdalena

Magdalena

MTS

Expertise

Medical Anthropology, Anthropology of South America, Social Sciences

Pamelia

Pamelia

MS

Expertise

Marine biology, ecology, aquaculture, fisheries, field and laboratory studies

Dilyara

Dilyara

PhD

Expertise

Middle East, Russian history, Islam, colonialism, legal studies, law, world history, European history, digital humanities

Cleo

Cleo

Industry expert

Expertise

Film and TV Studies, Scriptwriting, Production and Business, Media, Hollywood, Entertainment Industry

Natalie

Natalie

PhD

Expertise

Electrical engineering - applied physics. Specifically electromagnetic wave-matter interactions and nanotechnology

Nadiya

Nadiya

PhD candidate

Expertise

Neuroscience, Stem Cells, Neurodegeneration, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Tissue Engineering, Developmental Neuroscience

Lindsey

Lindsey

MS candidate

Expertise

Mathematics, Computing

Quintin

Quintin

PhD

Expertise

Chemistry, Energy Science, Materials Science, Electrochemistry, Microscopy, General Scientific Research