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Amanda Haage, PhD
Dr. Amanda Haage is a cell biologist, educator scholar, and advocate for larger cultural change in academia. She graduated with her PhD in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology from Iowa State University with research excellence accolades and a graduate teaching certificate. In 2019, she started as an assistant professor in an educator scholar position at the University of North Dakota teaching a uniquely designed anatomy and physiology course that incorporates diversity and inclusion topics. Here she also started her research lab focused on microenvironmental regulation of cellular behavior, particularly neural crest and cancer cell migration. Throughout her early career she as worked in various service roles focused on open access publishing, DEI, educational reform, and making the academy generally less ivory and opaque, and more transparent for the participation of all. Since 2018, she has lead this collaboration on studying the faculty job market.
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Ada Hagan, PhD
Dr. Ada Hagan is a microbiologist with a passion for making science accessible. In 2019, she founded Alliance SciComm & Consulting, LLC where she offers manuscript and grant writing and editing, writing-related webinars, and more. Her writing and research have been featured by BBC Radio 4, Science Careers, The Scientist, Massive Science, and the American Society for Microbiology.
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Nafisa M. Jadavji, PhD, FAHA
Dr. Nafisa (n uh - f ee - s ah) M. Jadavji (j aa - d uh v - j ee) (she/her) is a Neuroscientist. She is an Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, as well as a Research Professor at Carleton University in Canada. She completed her doctoral training at McGill University in Montréal, Canada. Her laboratory investigates how the brain responds to different biological processes throughout the lifespan. More specifically, her lab studies how the brain responds to changes in one-carbon metabolism, with a specific focus on maternal nutrition contributions to offspring neurodevelopment, neurological diseases (e.g. ischemic stroke and vascular dementia), and aging. She has been involved in Faculty Job Market research since 2018.
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Ariangela J. Kozik, PhD
Dr. Ariangela Kozik is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Michigan. Her laboratory studies the respiratory microbiome and leverages multi-omic strategies to interrogate host-microbe and microbe-microbe crosstalk in the human airway to better understand chronic respiratory disease. She is also passionate about transforming systems to sustain future generations of research scientists, and has worked on a number of initiatives to promote equity in STEMM.
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Chris Smith, PhD
Dr. Chris Smith directs the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Virginia Tech. A neuroscientist by training, he now seeks to support postdoctoral scholars as they navigate their training and the next steps in their career. From 2020 to 2025, he served on the National Postdoctoral Association Board of Directors and is an active member of the Graduate Career Consortium, a professional organization supporting those focused on providing career and professional development support for graduate students and postdocs. Prior to his role at Virginia Tech, he managed the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at North Carolina State University. He has a BS in Neuroscience from Furman University, Ph.D. in Neurobiology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and did postdoctoral training at Vanderbilt University.
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You (Lily) Cheng, PhD
Dr. You (Lilian) Cheng is a neuroscientist, data scientist, and science communicator. She holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in psychiatry at McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School. Her research focuses on understanding different stages of dementia from multimodal data (e.g., electronic health record, MRI, fMRI, PET, blood plasma, etc.) using deep-learning methods. She is pursuing a career that applies basic neuroscience toward translational research, using artificial intelligence for predictive modeling and improved patient care. Outside of research, she is passionate about improving public understanding of neuroscience with science communication as well as advocating for social good with her data science skill. Dr. Cheng joined the Faculty Job Market Collaboration as a volunteer in October 2022.