# Bio ## Education Sort 12/2013 – present Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellow in Physics and Molecular & Cellular Physiology Affiliate of the Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Adviser: [Prof. Steven Chu](https://profiles.stanford.edu/steve-chu) (Nanoscale optical and cathodoluminescence/electron bio-imaging) [Departmental profile](https://profiles.stanford.edu/steve-chu) [Group website](http://web.stanford.edu/group/chugroup/) [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Chu) 8/2009 – 11/2013 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ph.D. in Chemical Physics Adviser: [Prof. Martin Gruebele](https://chemistry.illinois.edu/directory/profile/mgruebel) (Experiments and simulations of fast protein dynamics) [Departmental profile](https://chemistry.illinois.edu/directory/profile/mgruebel) [Group website](http://www.scs.illinois.edu/mgweb/) [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gruebele) 9/2005 – 6/2009 University of Toronto H.B.Sc. with High Distinction in Chemistry and Physics Advisers: [Prof. Ulrich Krull](http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cps/faculty-staff/krull-ulrich-j) (DNA sensor development) [Prof. Claudiu Gradinaru](http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cps/faculty-staff/gradinaru-claudiu) (Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy) [Prof. Virginijus Barzda](http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/cps/faculty-staff/barzda-virginijus) (Non-linear optical microscopy) ## Awards, Fellowships Sort 2015 – 2018 [Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship](http://hhwf.org/), Helen Hay Whitney Foundation [NSF Center for Physics of Living Cells News](https://cplc.illinois.edu/news/whole_story.asp?id=9987) 2016 [2016 PHYS Division Postdoctoral Research Award](http://phys-acs.org/postdocs/2016.html), American Chemical Society 2014 [Dean's Postdoctoral Fellowship](http://postdocs.stanford.edu/scholars/fellowships_dean.html), Stanford University 2013 2013 Josephine G. Geerdes Memorial Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2012 – 2014 [Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Student Research Fellowship](http://www.hhmi.org/news/hhmi-awards-50-international-predoctoral-fellowships), Howard Hughes Medical Institute [University of Illinois News](https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/205010) Department of Chemistry [Newsletter](http://web.stanford.edu/~mprigozh/files/HHMI_DptOfChem_UIUC_News_2013.pdf) 2012 2012 Graduate College Travel Award, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011 – 2012 [John C. Bailar Fellowship](https://chemistry.illinois.edu/newsroom/events-seminars/lectures/john-c-bailar-jr-lectures-inorganic-chemistry/about-john-c-bailar), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2011 2nd US-Mexico Workshop in Biological Chemistry: Protein Folding, Misfolding and Design, Travel Award, National Science Foundation 2010 – 2011 [NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells Teaching Fellowship](https://cplc.illinois.edu/outreach/k12outreach/teachingfellows/Maxim.asp), University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign 2010 – 2011 Walter Brown Fellowship, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008 University of Toronto Excellence Award, University of Toronto 2007 University of Toronto Excellence Award, University of Toronto ## Teaching, Outreach, Professional Service Sort 2014 – 2018 Postdoctoral Fellow Representative of the Biopolymers in Vivo (BIV) Subgroup, Biophysical Society [Biophysical Society Newsletter interview](http://web.stanford.edu/~mprigozh/files/BPS_Newsletter_Interview_2014.pdf) in November 2014 [Biophysical Society Newsletter paper highlight](http://web.stanford.edu/~mprigozh/files/BPS_Newsletter_Article_2016.pdf) in July 2016 [Biophysical Society Newsletter paper highlight](http://web.stanford.edu/~mprigozh/files/BPS_Newsletter_Article_2016_2.pdf) in December 2016 2013 – present Peer reviewer: [Journal of the American Chemical Society](http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jacsat) [Physical Review Letters](https://journals.aps.org/prl/) [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA](https://www.pnas.org/) [Journal of Molecular Biology](http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-molecular-biology/) [Journal of Physical Chemistry B](http://pubs.acs.org/journal/jpcbfk) [Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics](http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1097-0134) 2014 [Contributor to the AAAS NextGen VOICES](http://science.sciencemag.org/content/344/6179/34/suppl/DC1) 2012 – 2013 [Contributor to the “Ask a Scientist” initiative, Howard Hughes Medical Institute](http://web.stanford.edu/~mprigozh/files/HHMI_Ask-a-scientist_2013.pdf) 2010 – 2011 NSF Center for the Physics of Living Cells Teaching Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [J Chem Ed article](http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ed400719c) [Center for Physics of Living Cells K-12 Outreach Program](https://cplc.illinois.edu/outreach/k12outreach/teachingfellows/Maxim.asp) 2009 – 2010 Teaching Assistant for junior and senior level physical chemistry classes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2008 – 2009 Teaching Assistant for Introductory Physics and Introductory Chemistry, University of Toronto 2007 – 2008 Facilitated Study Sessions Leader for Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Mathematics, University of Toronto, Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Center