Congratulations to the 2026 Cohort of Early Career Postdoctoral Scholars!
This year, 26 postdoctoral scholars across 16 academic disciplines will join the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs for a comprehensive training program to prepare for the academic job market.
Now in its sixth year, the Early Career Scholars Program enables fellows interested in exploring academic careers to build a strong professional network of future academics, develop healthy mentoring relationships and gain a better understanding of an academic career. As part of the program, fellows will create a competitive academic application package, prepare for academic interviews, learn to negotiate job offers and more alongside a campus-wide community of scholars pursuing similar goals.
Since 2021, the program has served 140 postdocs, helping them develop transferable skills to successfully embark on competitive careers not just in academia, but in nonprofits, government, consulting and other industries.
Chandra Family Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Andrey Vulfovich
Bokun Wang
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Deepika Gupta
Department of Astronomy
Archana Aravindan
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Kanika Verma
Department of Chemistry
Raiza Nara Antonelli Maia
Department of Communication Studies
Karissa Hernandez
Department of Germanic Studies
Ellen Schoedler
Department of Integrative Biology
Morgan Muell
Department of Marine Science
Christopher Peterson
Hairong Xu
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Lucia Fernandez Romero
Fariborz Maseeh Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering
Junghyun Chae
Yifan Huang
Byunghyun (Sean) Kim
Gautam Kunwar
Brandon Li
Shivashankar Peruvazhuthi
Meng Wang
Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Gideon Dordzie
Materials Science and Engineering Program
Alem Hailu
Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
Frimpong Baidoo
Richard Schussnig
Texas Materials Institute
Lin Hou
UT Institute for Geophysics
Chen Xing
Leyuan Zhang