Academic Job Search Panel and Luncheon - National Post Doc Appreciation Week
The academic job search is an unyielding process, and it is only through having knowledge about the academic landscape and typical hiring cycle that you can effectively plan your time and successfully produce all of the written materials that will be the foundation of your applications. Hear from four distinguished academic professionals on how to prepare for the process.
Thursday, September 21 at 11:30 AM - 1 PM in the UConn Student Union Room 304A
Information on the Panelists:
Nicola Carpentieri (Literatures, Cultures, and Languages)
Prof. Carpentieri's research focuses on Arabic literature across the Mediterranean and on the history of medicine. He received his Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic studies from Harvard University ...in 2012. Subsequently, he worked as a post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester (UK) and at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). His most recent work is centred on Arabic poetry in medieval Sicily. His other academic interests include Arabic medical texts (particularly on psychosomatics), Greek into Arabic and Arabic into Latin translations, the 'School of Toledo,’ the Sicilian-Arab poet Ibn ḤamdÃ�«s, and contemporary Arabic writing.
Yuwen Gu (Statistics)
Yuwen Gu's research interests include high-dimensional statistical inference, variable selection, model combination, nonparametric statistics, causal inference, and large-scale optimization. His current research projects study several non-standard regression techniques for high-dimensional data analysis. These methods have unique advantages over the standard least squares regression and have applications in large-scale data that exhibit heterogeneity or heavy tails. He is also working on applications of statistical learning and causal inference methods in social and economic data.
Alexander Gorka (Chemistry)
Alexander Gorka graduated Monmouth University in NJ with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2008. He obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry in 2013 from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, focusing on malaria drug development and drug resistance. He went on to complete a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Cancer Institute, where he developed new imaging and drug delivery strategies for cancer. He joins the UConn Faculty in Fall 2017 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry.
Kristin Morgan (Bio-medical Engineering)
Dr. Kristin Morgan is starting her second year as an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Her work focuses on understanding the mechanism(s) of orthopedic injury and developing more effective rehabilitation programs through the implementation time series analyses and computational modeling. Her goal is to create novel algorithms to predict and mitigate musculoskeletal injury risk.
For more information, contact: Morgan Sutton at morgan.sutton@uconn.edu