ComSciCon Leadership Team

Alie Caldwell

Alison Caldwell

Co-creator, writer, and co-host of Neuro Transmissions
Alie Caldwell completed her PhD in Neurosciences at UC San Diego in 2019, where she studied glial biology and genetic neurodevelopmental disorders. She is the... Read more about Alison Caldwell
Ben Cook

Ben Cook

Graduate Student

Ben entered the Ph.D. program in Astronomy at Harvard in 2014, after completing his undergraduate work in Astrophysics at Princeton.  His main scientific focus is on the formation and evolution of galaxies.... Read more about Ben Cook

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Emily Costa

Emily Costa (she/her) is a cancer biologist based in New York City. She's also an avid science communicator, storyteller, and trivia host, practicing all...

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Maria Drout

Maria Drout

Hubble, Carnegie-Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science
ComSciCon Co-founder

I am currently a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science and a Research Associate at the Dunlap Institute...

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Susanna Kohler

Susanna Kohler

Science Highlights Editor, American Astronomical Society
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Astronomy
ComSciCon Co-founder

I received my PhD from University of Colorado Boulder in 2014, with my dissertation work spanning two fields: high-energy astrophysics and science...

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Claire Lamman

PhD Student, Astronomy, Harvard

Claire is in her third year of grad school at Harvard. By studying how galaxies are aligned with each other, she’s helping to build and interpret the most...

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Nadia Lana

PhD Student, Cognitive Science of Language, McMaster University

Nadia is a second year PhD student in the Cognitive Science of Language program at McMaster University. Her MSc research explored effects of linguistic...

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