Former Postdoctoral Fellows
Former Beckman postdoctoral fellows include the following programs: Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (presented to four to six researchers annually since 1992), the Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (presented to one fellow annually since 2015), and the Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows (presented to one or two recipients approximately every three years since 2008).
More information about the Beckman Institute Posdoctoral Program is online.
2017 Postdoctoral Fellows
Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Vivan Lau, Ph.D. from Stanford University
Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Rachel (Klaren) Bollaert, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Caterina Lamuta, Ph.D. from the University of Calabria, Italy
- Courtney Sobieski, Ph.D. from Washington University
2016 Postdoctoral Fellows
2016 Beckman-Brown Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Lydia Kisley, Ph.D. from Rice University
2016 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- James Checco, Ph.D. from University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Junlong Geng, Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore
- Kenneth Hernandez-Burgos, Ph.D. from Cornell University
- Si On Yoon, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Yue Zhuo, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2015 Postdoctoral Fellows
2015 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Ana Daugherty, Ph.D. from Wayne State University
- Daniel Kleinman, Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego
- Fan Lam, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Maxwell Robb, Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Barbara
- Limei Tan, Ph.D. from Washington University
- Yingjie Zhang, Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley
2014 Postdoctoral Fellows
2014 Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
- Rachael Rubin, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2014 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- John Biggan, Ph.D. from University of Texas at Arlington
- Gillian Hamilton, Ph.D. from the University of Delaware
- Semin Lee, Ph.D. from Indiana University
- Jason Patrick, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Tomasz Wrobel, Ph.D. from Jagiellonian University, Poland
2013 Postdoctoral Fellows
2013 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Abhishek Singharoy, Ph.D. from Indiana University
- Preethi Jyothi, Ph.D. from the Ohio State University
- Chao Ma, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Nathan Ward, Ph.D. from the University of Utah
- Renee Sadowski, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2012 Postdoctoral Fellows
2012 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Suma Bhat, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Bradley Deutsch, Ph.D. from the University of Rochester
- Sarah Erickson, Ph.D. from Florida International University
- Heather Lucas, Ph.D. from Northwestern University
- Jie Sun, Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Baoxing Xu, Ph.D. from Columbia University
2011 Postdoctoral Fellows
2011 Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
- Jongsick Kim, Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh
2011 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Jonathan Fan, Ph.D. from Harvard University
- Kyle Mathewson, Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Meredith Silberstein, Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Joseph Toscano, Ph.D. from University of Iowa
- Thomas van Dijk, Ph.D. from Vrije University, the Netherlands
2010 Postdoctoral Fellows
2010 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- S. Derin Babacan, Ph.D. from Northwestern University
- Simon Fischer-Baum, Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University
- Malini Ranganathan, Ph.D. from U-C Berkeley
- Ilia Solov'yov, Ph.D. from Frankfurt University, Germany
2009 Postdoctoral Fellows
2009 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Jeremy Brooks, Ph.D. from University of California, Davis
- Nanshu Lu, Ph.D. from Harvard University
- David Mayerich, Ph.D. from Texas A&M University
- Nathan Parks, Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology
- Edward Wlotko, Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008 Postdoctoral Fellows
2008 Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
- Michael Walsh, Ph.D. from Lancaster University
2008 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Agustín Mihi, Ph.D. from University of Seville
- Jacob Eisenstein, Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Amy Shih, Ph.D. from University of Illinois
- Joel Voss, Ph.D. from Northwestern University
2007 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Derek Hoiem, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University
- Zhi Jiang, Ph.D. from Purdue University
- Severine Lepage, Ph.D. from University of Líège, Belgium
- Jongseung Yoon, Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Joseph B. Geddes III, Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University
- Yael Gertner, Ph.D. from University of Pennsylvania
- Ming Hsu, Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology
- Mark Neider, Ph.D. from Stony Brook University
- Stephanie Rinne, Ph.D. from University of Illinois
- Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Ph.D. from University of Rochester
- Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, Ph.D. from California Institute of Technology
2005 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Chandramalika Basak, Ph.D. from Syracuse University
- Emma Falk, Ph.D. from Helsinki University
- Silvio Savarese, Ph.D. from CalTech
- Zhihong Zeng, Ph.D from the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2004 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Byron McCaughey, Ph.D. from Tulane University
- Michelle Meade, Ph.D. from Washington University, St. Louis
- Timothy Nokes, Ph.D. from University of Illinois, Chicago
- Maxim Raginsky, Ph.D. from Northwestern University
2003 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Joshua Ballard, Ph.D. from University of Colorado
- Richard Godijn, Ph.D. from Vrije Universiteit, Amersterdam
- Mathews Jacob, Ph.D. from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Ryan Kershner, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Tyler Bruns, Ph.D. from University of Illinois
- Stan Colcombe, Ph.D. from University of Illinois
- Diego Diaz, Ph.D. from Cornell University
- Sarah Grison, Ph.D. from the University of Wales
- Cristina Iani, Ph.D. from the University of Bologna
2001 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Michael Bevan, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University
- Donald Cannon, Ph.D. from Penn State University
- Christina Grozinger, Ph.D. from Harvard University
- Jesse Spencer-Smith, Ph.D. from Indiana University
2000 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- John Paul Minda, Ph.D. from SUNY, Buffalo
- Slava Rotkin, Ph.D. from Ioffe Institute, Russia
- Ilya Zharov, Ph.D. from University of Colorado
1999 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Dale Barr, Ph.D. from University of Chicago
- Hong Hua, Ph.D. from Beijing Institute of Technology
- Jason McCarley, Ph.D. from University of Louisville
- Lolita Rotkina, Ph.D. from Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute
1998 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Michal Balberg, Ph.D. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gregory DiGirolamo, Ph.D. from University of Oregon
1997 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Brendan Frey, Ph.D. from University of Toronto
- Tammy Ivanco, Ph.D. from McMaster University
1996 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Srinivas Akella, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University
- Jose Jimenez, Ph.D. from Columbia University
- Chen Liu, Ph.D. from Techinion-Israel Institute of Technology
1995 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Prahlad Gupta, Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University
- Gregory Zelinsky, Ph.D. from Brown University
1994 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Barbara Church, Ph.D. from Harvard University
- Narayan Srinivasa, Ph.D. from University of Florida
1993 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Andreas Herz, Ph.D. from Heidelberg University
- Rajeev Sharman, Ph.D. from University of Maryland
1992 Beckman Institute Postdoctoral Fellows
- Andrew Nobel, Ph.D. from Stanford University
- Efrat Shimshoni, Ph.D. from The Weizmann Institute of Science