AskScience Panel of Scientists XXII
Please read this entire post carefully and format your application appropriately.
This post is for new panelist recruitment! The previous one is here.
The panel is an informal group of redditors who are either professional scientists or those in training to become so. All panelists have at least a graduate-level familiarity within their declared field of expertise and answer questions from related areas of study. A panelist's expertise is summarized in a color-coded AskScience flair.
Membership in the panel comes with access to a panelist subreddit. It is a place for panelists to interact with each other, voice concerns to the moderators, and where the moderators make announcements to the whole panel. It's a good place to network with people who share your interests!
You are eligible to join the panel if you:
Are studying for at least an MSc. or equivalent degree in the sciences, AND,
Are able to communicate your knowledge of your field at a level accessible to various audiences.
Instructions for formatting your panelist application:
Choose exactly one general field from the side-bar (Physics, Engineering, Social Sciences, etc.).
State your specific field in one word or phrase (Neuropathology, Quantum Chemistry, etc.)
Succinctly describe your particular area of research in a few words (carbon nanotube dielectric properties, myelin sheath degradation in Parkinsons patients, etc.)
Give us a brief synopsis of your education: are you a research scientist for three decades, or a first-year Ph.D. student?
Provide links to comments you've made in AskScience which you feel are indicative of your scholarship. Applications will not be approved without several comments made in r/AskScience itself.
Ideally, these comments should clearly indicate your fluency in the fundamentals of your discipline as well as your expertise. We favor comments that contain citations so we can assess its correctness without specific domain knowledge.
Here's an example application:
Username: /u/foretopsail
General field: Anthropology
Specific field: Maritime Archaeology
Particular areas of research include historical archaeology, archaeometry, and ship construction.
Education: MA in archaeology, researcher for several years.
Comments: 1, 2, 3, 4.
Please do not give us personally identifiable information and please follow the template. We're not going to do real-life background checks - we're just asking for reddit's best behavior. However, several moderators are tasked with monitoring panelist activity, and your credentials will be checked against the academic content of your posts on a continuing basis.
You can submit your application by replying to this post.
Username: u/elchinguito
General field: Archaeology
Specific field: Geoarchaeology
Particular areas of research include the Middle and Late Stone Age in Southern Africa, stone tools, Human evolution, lithic sourcing, hunter-gatherer technology and land use, Louisiana archaeology
Education: PhD and MA in Anthropology/Archaeology
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Username: /u/bmarcus128
General Field: Neurobiology
Specific Field: Behavioral Neuroscience
Particular areas of research: I studied how associative conditioning contributes to the development of of drug addiction.
Education: B.S. in molecular and cellular biology and Ph.D. in neurobiology
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Username: /u/zjwinn
General field: Genetics
Specific field: Plant Breeding - Wheat
Particular areas of research: I study disease resistance quantitative trait loci in common bread wheat and I work on application of genomic prediction in breeding programs.
Education: Ms in Crop Science and I am currently working on my PhD in Crop Science (Plant Breeding and Genetics)
Username: /u/treeses
General field: Chemistry
Specific field: Physical Chemistry | Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Particular areas of research: I use ultrafast spectroscopy to study the photophysics and photochemsitry of organic materials used for solar energy.
Education: PhD student in physical chemistry
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Username: u/SlickMcFav0rit3
General field: Biology
Specific field: Molecular biology
Particular areas of research: I've mostly worked with RNA in the context of translation (ribosome specialization and assembly), RNA viruses and RNA splicing
Education: PhD in molecular biology, currently a postdoctoral researcher
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I used to have flair, but now I notice it is gone, so I'm re-applying:
Username: /u/Stargrazer82301
General field: Astronomy
Specific field: The Interstellar Medium
Particular areas of research: Cosmic Dust & Galaxy Evolution.
Education: PhD in astronomy, currently a post-doctoral researcher in the field.
Hello,
Your flair is still in place, I see it as
Galaxy Evolution | Cosmic Dust Formation
Would you like it changed?
Username: /u/fluffyrhinos
General field: Biology
Specific field: Cell signaling | Molecular immunology
Particular area of research: How the activation dynamics of cell signaling pathways determine cell behavior, specifically in the context of the immune system.
Education: B.S. in chemical engineering, M.S. in bioengineering, current 5th year PhD student in bioengineering.
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Username: /u/george-padilla
General field: Medicine
Specific field: Biomedical Sciences
Particular areas of research include tauopathic diseases (primarily Alzheimer's Disease) and potential treatments. Tested several drug formulations and dosages designed to combat accumulation of tau protein in vitro/in vivo.
Education: BS in Biomedical Sciences, 1.5 years as researcher, starting as first-year M.D. candidate
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Username: /u/TheBaseballNerd
General field: Biology
Specific field: Infectious Disease | Dengue Virus
Particular areas of research: Virology, host-virus interaction, viral immunity
Education: B.S. in Biology; First-year PhD student in Pathobiology; Four years of research lab experience