TAMEST Welcomes 2020 Protégé Class
TAMEST is pleased to welcome 42 talented, early career researchers to our 2020 annual conference as TAMEST protégés.
The protégé program gives TAMEST members an opportunity to invite an early career researcher to accompany them to the conference and engage with our highly accomplished members.
Since participating in the program, several protégés have gone on to become recipients of the O’Donnell Awards or achieve election to the National Academies.
Meet the TAMEST 2020 Protégés
Nominators (TAMEST members) are listed in italics after each protégé.
TAMEST 2020 Protégés
Harry Arnold
Graduate Research Assistant
University of Maryland
Kenneth E. Arnold, P.E. (NAE)
Sylvia Arnold
Graduate Research
Georgetown University
Kenneth E. Arnold, P.E. (NAE)
Kapil N. Bhalla, M.D.
Kelcie Kana Research Chair and Professor
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Neal G. Copeland, Ph.D. (NAS)
Maria Elena Bottazzi, Ph.D.
Associate Dean and Professor, National School of Tropical Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. (NAM)
Gerardine Botte, Ph.D.
Professor and Whitacre Department Chair, Chemical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Chau-Chyun Chen, Sc.D. (NAE)
Radek Bukowski, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Chair for Investigation and Discovery, Women’s Health
The University of Texas at Austin
Tinsley Oden, Ph.D. (NAE)
Lindsay Burrage, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Brendan Lee, M.D., Ph.D. (NAM)
Sanjukta Chakraborty, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Texas A&M Health Science Center
Akhil Datta-Gupta, Ph.D. (NAE)
John P. Cooke, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences
Houston Methodist
Roderic Pettigrew, M.D., Ph.D. (NAM, NAE)
Harvinder Singh Gill, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas Tech University
Fazle Hussain, Ph.D. (NAE)
Teja Guda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at San Antonio
Rena Bizios, Ph.D. (NAM)
Sean Hartig, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baylor College of Medicine
David Moore, Ph.D. (NAS)
Joey Huchette, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rice University
Richard A. Tapia, Ph.D. (NAE)
Moriba Kemessia Jah, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Department
The University of Texas at Austin
Sharon L. Wood, Ph.D. (NAE)
Erick C. Jones, Ph.D.
George and Elizabeth Pickett Endowed Professor and Associate Dean, College of Engineering
The University of Texas at Arlington
Dereje Agonafer, Ph.D. (NAE)
Eric Larson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Southern Methodist University
Frederick R. Chang, Ph.D. (NAE)
Zhong Lu, Ph.D.
Shuler-Foscue Professor of Geophysics
Southern Methodist University
David J. Meltzer, Ph.D. (NAS)
Manoranjan Majji, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and Director, Land, Air and Space Robotics (LASR) Laboratory
Texas A&M University
Robert Skelton, Ph.D. (NAE)
Mirjana Maletic-Savatic, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Neurology, Department of Neuroscience
Baylor College of Medicine
Huda Zoghbi, M.D. (NAM, NAS)
Maksim Mamonkin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Center for Cell and Gene Therapy
Baylor College of Medicine
Malcolm K. Brenner, M.D., Ph.D. (NAM)
Elisabeth D. Martinez, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Melanie H. Cobb, Ph.D. (NAS)
Aditya Mohite, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Rice University
George J. Hirasaki, Ph.D. (NAE)
Debra Niemeyer, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist, 59th Medical Wing
United States Air Force
Mary Pat Moyer, Ph.D. (NAE)
Michael Nikolaou, Ph.D.
Professor
University of Houston
Pol D. Spanos, Ph.D. (NAE)
Matteo Pasquali
Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and Chair, Department of Chemistry
Rice University
Peter J. Rossky, Ph.D. (NAS)
Neela K. Patel, M.D.
Associate Professor, Chief Division of Geriatrics & Palliative Care, Department of Family & Community Medicine
UT Health San Antonio
Carlos Roberto Jaén M.D., Ph.D. (NAM)
Vicky Poenitzsch
Manager, R&D
Southwest Research Institute
H. Norman Abramson, Ph.D. (NAE)
Manuel Quevedo, Ph.D.
Professor of Materials Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
David E. Daniel, Ph.D. (NAE)
Sarah Remmert, Ph.D.
Technology Manager & Team Lead, Lubricants Innovation
Shell
Selda Gunsel, Ph.D. (NAE)
Megan Robertson
Associate Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Houston
Christine A. Ehlig-Economides, Ph.D. (NAE)
Adrianne Rosales, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
Brian A. Korgel, Ph.D. (NAE)
Srinivas Shakkottai, Ph.D.
Professor
Texas A&M University
Panganamala Ramana Kumar, Sc.D. (NAE)
Wei-Chuan Shih, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Houston
John H. Lienhard IV, Ph.D. (NAE)
Alex V. Smith
Ph.D. Candidate
Texas Tech University
Danny D. Reible, Ph.D. (NAE)
David Staack
Associate Professor and Director, Engineering Laboratory Instruction, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Texas A&M University
M. Cynthia Hipwell, Ph.D. (NAE)
Andrea Thomaz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
CEO, Diligent Robotics
Bob M. Metcalfe, Ph.D. (NAE)
Omid Veiseh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Rice University
Antonios G. Mikos, Ph.D. (NAM, NAE)
Yan Wan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Arlington
Vistasp Karbhari, Ph.D.
Haotian Wang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Rice University
George L. Stegemeier, Ph.D. (NAE)
Marissa E. Wechsler, Ph.D.
Research Associate
The University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas A. Peppas, Sc.D. (NAM, NAE)
Anvar A. Zakhidov, Ph.D.
Deputy Director of the Alan G. MacDiarmid Nanotech Institute
The University of Texas at Dallas
Ray H. Baughman, Ph.D. (NAE)
Delong Zuo
Associate Professor
Texas Tech University
Kishor C. Mehta, Ph.D. (NAE)
To learn more about the conference, visit TAMEST.org/2020/.
