Michael Chen Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, Dc, Us

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States

Investigating how ocean physics drives carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean. Analyzed data from autonomous sampling platforms, satellites, and numerical models in Python.• Funded by a competitively-selected NASA FINESST grant: wrote an original research proposal defining project scope and impact• Presented findings at multiple international conferences• Wrote a first-author manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal (currently in review)• Engaged extensively in public science communication at schools, libraries, community events, and webinarsPrincipal Investigator: Dr. Oscar Schofield

Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

Computational and wet-lab infectious disease research on an interdisciplinary team. • Promoted from Research Associate I to Research Associate II in July 2020.• Performed computational analyses on large genetic sequencing datasets• Built and maintained scripted pipelines in Python and bash to process and quality-checkdata. Used batch and interactive workflows on a high-performance computing cluster• Led analytics to validate process developments that increased antibiotic screening capacity by 60%• Served as team-lead for laboratory robotics, and helped develop and automate a SARS-CoV-2 antibody assay that was competitively selected as the FDA's national reference standard during the COVID-19 pandemic • Trained new team members in wet-lab protocols and data pipelines/workflowsMicrobial Genetics Group; Principal Investigator: Dr. Deborah Hung

East Boothbay, Me

Conducted bioinformatics research on single-cell genomics data.• I reconstructed a bacterial candidate phylum’s evolution, ecology, and biogeography from single-cell genomic and metagenomic data. • Lead-author of a paper published in Frontiers in Microbiology• Awarded a Student Travel Grant by the American Geophysical Union to present work at the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon.Principal Investigator: Dr. Ramunas Stepanauskas

Master Of Science - Ms With Thesis, Oceanography

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology, Class Of 2018

Magna Cum Laude • Highest Honors in Biology • Phi Beta Kappa • Sigma Xi Honors thesis: "Evolution of Niche Differentiation in the Open.

Education record

Coursework: Arctic climate science, geopolitics, and environmental policy; international humanitarian law.