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Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards

Postdoctoral Fellowship Awards

The DISC Postdoctoral Fellowship aims to support OU postdoctoral researchers in their research and professional development toward careers goals. Each fellowship may be awarded up to $5,000. 

2026

Project TitleAwardeeAmount Awarded
Short-Term In-Situ Monitoring of Urban Surface Energy Balance under Shaded and Unshaded Conditions

Cathleen Simatupang

Chenghao Wang

$5,000.00
Phylogenetic Ecological and Spatial Drivers of Mult-Pathogen Sharing in Neotropical Bat Communities

Amanda Vicente Santos

Daniel Becker

$5,000.00
Project TitleAwardeeAmount Awarded
State-of-the-Art Simulations for Circumbinary Exoplanet FormationJeremy Smallwood$5,000.00
Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics to understand multidrug efflux and permeation in antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aerginosa

Thilini Peramuna

$5,000.00
A Deep Learning-Based Imaging Platform for Kidney BiopsyChen Wang$5,000.00
Qinggong Tang
Chongle Pan
Sean Duguay
William Banlandingham
Kar-Ming Fung
Data-Driven Prediction of Kidney Transplant Outcomes Using OCT ImagingKe Zhang$5,000.00
Qinggong Tang
Chongle Pan
Narendra Battula
Paulo Martins
Numerical Simulation Investigating the Transition Process Between Earthquake Swarm and Mainshock SequenceSeongJu Jeong$4,930.00
Edge-Enabled Deep Learning for Induced Seismicity Detection in OklahomaHongyu Xiao$5,000.00
Jacob Walter

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Awardee

Amount Awarded

 

Identifying Multiscale Basin Management Challenges and Current Research Priorities based on Topic
Modeling of the Mississippi River Basin

Joshua Wimhurt (Pi),
Jennifer Koch (Co-PI) 
$4,475
Using High-Speed Film to Make Evolutionary Inferences About Feeding BiomechanicsMichelle St. John (PI), Laura Stein (Co-PI)$4,999.97

Project Title

Awardee

Amount Awarded

Mass spectrometry profiling of metabolite distribution and spatial clustering of metabolomics data in Chagas diseaseAzadeh Nasuhidehnavi $4,500
Bat immunology across taxonomy, ecology, and infections using comparative proteomicsAmanda Vicente-Santos$5,000

Quantifying bat cellular immunity under multiple stressors in western North America

Molly Simonis

$5,000