Welcome to the 2025 Inaugural Postdoc Research Showcase
Join us on Monday, September 15, 2025 for Lehigh’s inaugural celebration of postdoctoral research!
The afternoon begins with Flash Talks from 1:00–3:30 p.m. in Linderman Library, Room 200, followed by a Poster Reception from 4:00–6:00 p.m. in Tauck Lobby, Business Innovation Building.
This program highlights the innovation, dedication, and scholarly impact of our postdoctoral community through engaging talks and posters spanning engineering, the sciences, and interdisciplinary fields. Mentors, lab members, departmental faculty, and chairs are warmly invited to attend, learn about cutting-edge projects, and connect with researchers across disciplines
Browse the Flash Talks and Poster Presentations below. Select “Abstract” to view the full summary.
Flashtalks
Erinn Bacchus
Mentors: Tracy Nichols, Joanna Mishtal & Eduardo Gomez
Dept: Community and Global Health, Population Health
Title: Addressing Health Inequities in the Criminal-Legal System
Johanna Bolanos
Mentor: Alberto J. Lamadrid
Dept: Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure and Energy (I-CPIE)
Title: Customer charges and inflation: An analysis of electricity rates for the state of Pennsylvania (2006—2024)
Daniela Fonseca
Mentor: Ricardo Castro
Dept: Materials Science and Engineering
Title: Between Rockets and Picasso: Understanding High-Entropy Alloy
Sourav Ghosh
Mentor: William Bulman
Dept: History
Title: Kings in the Empire: Sovereignty and State Formation in Central India, c. 1658-1971
Candace Jordan
Mentor: Michael Raposa
Dept: Religion, Culture, Society
Title: The Achievement of Acknowledgement: On Responsibility and Being Moved
Franziska Keller
Mentor: Meredith Townsend
Dept: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Title: Rethinking Super-Eruptions: What Happens When Magma Reabsorbs Gas?
Artemiza Martinez
Mentor: Gregory Lang
Dept: Biological Sciences
Title: Long-term adaptation in recombinant yeast hybrids highlights proteostasis as a key evolutionary response
Rosemary Steup
Mentor: Dominic DiFranzo
Dept: Computer Science and Engineering
Title: Generative AI in higher education: instructors' imagined futures and current policies
Abstract
Yixiang Wang
Mentor: Linchen He
Dept: Community and Population Health
Title: Impacts of Portable Air Purifiers on the Oxidative Potential and Sources of Organic Matter in Indoor PM2.5
Alexander Wickham
Mentor: Anne Meltzer
Dept: Earth and Environmental Science
Title: Fluid-induced large earthquake evidenced from dense instrument networks
Abstract
Poster Presentations
| Poster # | Presenter | Mentor | Department/College | Title | Abstract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oluwasanmi Adeodu | Mayuresh Kothare | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Development of a Fully Automated Supercapacitive Swing Adsorption (SSA) Process for Carbon Capture | Abstract |
| 2 | Federico Battista | Ted K. Ralphs | Industrial & Systems Engineering | Gray-box Algorithms for Sequences of Discrete Optimization Problems | Abstract |
| 3 | Havva Hande Cebeci | Carlos E. Romero | Energy Research Center | Development of Anthracite Coal Derived Silicon Carbide Electrodes for Green Energy Storage Solutions | Abstract |
| 4 | Charles Chemale Yurgel | Wojciech Z. Misiolek | Materials Science and Engineering | Benefits of numerical and physical modeling in the processing of new advanced engineering materials | Abstract |
| 5 | Marcos da Silva | Johanna Kowalko | Biological Sciences | Addressing the role of genes and regulatory regions on the evolution of vision in Mexican tetra | Abstract |
| 6 | Cindy Jin | Anand Jagota | Bioengineering | DNA-based Sorting of Carbon Nanotubes Using PEG/Salt Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction | Abstract |
| 7 | Jiaqi Liu | Si Tang | Mathematics | Relation between conformal loop ensemble and Brownian motion | Abstract |
| 8 | Qysar Maqbool | Niels Holten-Andersen | Bioengineering | Heat-stiffening mineral-polymer physical networks | Abstract |
| 9 | Luke McCartin | Santiago Herrera | Biological Sciences | Environmental DNA Metabarcoding is Improved by a Barcode Reference Database Built Through Genome Skimming | Abstract |
| 10 | Nambi Mohanam | Lisa A. Fredin | Chemistry | Modeling differing hole mobility in different DATZAA polymorphs | Abstract |
| 11 | Keaton Naff | Huai-Dong Cao | Mathematics | Ricci flow and mean curvature flow | Abstract |
| 12 | L Ponoop Prasad Patro | Wonpil Im | Biological Sciences | MembranomeX for Comprehensive Analysis of Single-Pass Transmembrane Proteins and their Complexes | Abstract |
| 13 | Asal Saeidfar | Carlos E. Romero | Energy Research Center | Critical Mineral Recovery from Anthracite Mining Waste | Abstract |
| 14 | Sreeja Sasidharan | Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith | Physics | Size-dependent protein advection on COS-7 cells induced by shear stress | Abstract |
| 15 | Reshma Siddiquie | Anand Jagota | Bioengineering | Surface Deformation and Jump-To-Contact Instabilities in Soft Substrates | Abstract |
| 16 | Puja Sunil | Keith Moored | Mechanical Engineering & Mechanics | Stable formations and hydrodynamics of bio-inspired fish schools | Abstract |
| 17 | Kevin Theunissen | Shamim N. Pakzad | Civil and Environmental Engineering | Structural health monitoring of large structures using mobile sensing | Abstract |
| 18 | Trang H. Tran | Luis Nunes Vicente | Industrial & Systems Engineering | Non-monotone stochastic derivative-free optimization algorithms | Abstract |
| 19 | Luke Wang | Anand Jagota | Bioengineering | Structure of DNA-SWCNT Hybrids for SWCNT Sorting and Biosensing | Abstract |
| 20 | Yue Wu | Fei Lu | Electrical and Computer Engineering | Prompting Transportation Electrification with a 99.55%-Efficient GaN-Based Multilevel High-Power Wireless Power Transfer Converter | Abstract |
| 21 | Shuting Xiang | Israel Wachs | Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Ethylene to Propylene through Simultaneous Ethylene Dimerization and Olefin Metathesis with Dual-Site Supported 8%NiSO4-8%ReO4/γ-Al2O3 Catalyst | Abstract |