Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Michelle María Early Capistrán
Postdoctoral Scholar, Oceans
BioMichelle María Early Capistrán is a David H. Smith Conservation Fellow at the Crowder Lab. Her transdisciplinary research focuses on working collaboratively with coastal communities to improve conservation practice by integrating Local Ecological Knowledge and marine ecology. She was originally trained as a Cultural Anthropologist and holds an M.S. and PhD in Marine Science and Limnology (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM). For over a decade, she has collaborated with rural fishing communities in the Baja California peninsula to understand long-term changes in the abundance of endangered and culturally important green turtles (Chelonia mydas). She will work with Prof. Crowder, in collaboration with Jeff Seminoff of the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, to develop species distribution model for green turtles under climate change by integrating Local Ecological Knowledge and Citizen/Community Science.
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Amir Eskanlou
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth and Planetary Sciences
BioI specialize in mineral processing and computational materials science. At Stanford, I explore the electronic structure of critical minerals as well as mineral-water and mineral-reagent interfaces using AI-accelerated ab initio computations. My research focuses on developing an intelligent framework for discovering and designing novel chemical reagents and ligands that target the subtle quantum-mechanical properties of minerals and metals. The outcomes of my work aim to enable the selective separation and extraction of critical minerals and metals from both primary and secondary resources.
In addition, I collaborate on AI-driven optimization and design of mineral processing operations under uncertainty for selective and sustainable extraction of critical minerals.