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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
BioAmir specializes in mineral processing, and computational materials science. At Stanford, he explores the electronic structure of minerals, mineral-water, and mineral-reagent interfaces using AI-accelerated quantum mechanical computations. His research focuses on developing an intelligent framework for discovering and designing novel chemical reagents/ ligands that target the subtle quantum-mechanical properties of minerals/ metals. The outcomes of his work aim to enable the selective separation and extraction of critical minerals and metals from both primary and secondary resources.
In addition, Amir collaborates on AI-driven optimization and design of processing operations under uncertainty, contributing to the sustainable development of critical mineral supply chains.