Doctoral Council

William Acree
- Email: acree@wustl.edu
Arts & Sciences
Member until August 2025
Research: Cultural history; popular and material culture; public space and state formation in Latin America; collective identities.
Teaching: Courses focused on the cultural history of the Americas; the impacts of cultural goods and activities on politics, identities, and public life; and research methods and professional writing.

Arpita Bose
- Email: abose@wustl.edu
Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)
Member until August 2026
Research: Environmental microbes & processes. Professor Bose’s lab generates new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, human health, sustainability and the circular economy.
Teaching: Undergraduate course in microbiology and graduate course in experimental design and critical thinking.

Leopoldo J. Cabassa
- Email: ljcabassa@wustl.edu
Brown School
Member until August 2026
Research: Racial and ethnic disparities in health and mental health care, implementation science, integration of physical and mental health services, mental health services research.
Teaching: Graduate level courses in mental health services research, mental health policy, and implementation science.

Jeffrey G. Catalano
- Email: jcatalano@wustl.edu
Arts & Sciences
Member until August 2026
Research: Nutrients and contaminants in soils and aquatic systems, mineral and chemical records on planetary surfaces, reactions between rocks and water on the early earth.
Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate courses on environmental processes, soil systems, water chemistry, and professional development.

Sneha Das Gupta
- Email: d.sneha@wustl.edu
PhD Student in Imaging Science
Member until August 2025
Research Interests: developing computational frameworks for breast cancer risk assessment using digital breast tomosynthesis.

Aidan Flynn
- Email: aidanflynn@wustl.edu
PhD Candidate in Plant and Microbial Biosciences
Member until August 2025
Research interests: Evolution and applications of intrinsically disordered protein regions

Michael Frachetti
- Email: frachetti@wustl.edu
Arts and Sciences
Member until August 2026
Research: Social organization and political institutions of ancient nomadic societies, Economy, paleoenvironmental interactions of extreme environments throughout prehistory, Urbanism and trade along the ancient Silk Roads.
Teaching: Undergraduate courses include the formation of long-term social landscapes, ancient nomadic ecology, and 3D modeling with Geospatial technologies. Graduate courses include Archaeological Theory and Advanced Geospatial modeling in Anthropology.

Patrick Hill
- Email: patrick.hill@wustl.edu
Arts and Sciences
Member until August 2026
Research: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging.
Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.

Sarah Koester
- Email: koester.s@wustl.edu
PhD student in Molecular Cell Biology
Member until May 2024
Research Interests: Regulation of RNA localization and local translation in astrocytes

Catherine Lang
- Email: langc@wustl.edu
School of Medicine
Member until August 2026
Research: Stroke recovery, Rehabilitation, and Accelerometry
Teaching: Graduate content in motor systems neuroscience, motor control, and research design. Graduate research mentorship.

Matthew D. Lew
- Email: mdlew@wustl.edu
McKelvey School of Engineering
Member until August 2026
Research: Super-resolution microscopy; nanoscale sensing; single-molecule spectroscopy; optimal design, detection, and estimation.
Teaching: Undergraduate classes on applied linear algebra and electromagnetics, graduate course on modern optical imaging.

Patricia Maurer
- Email: p.maurer@wustl.edu
PhD student in Germanic Languages & Literatures
Member until May 2024
Research Interests: 19th-Century German Literature Gender Studies Crime in Literature Female Perpetrators Dorfgeschichten (Village Tales) Medieval Literature and Culture

Steve Mennerick
- Email: menneris@wustl.edu
Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S)
Member until August 2024
Research: Cellular and circuit level neuroscience, neuropharmacology.
Teaching: Graduate and postdoctoral apprenticeships, graduate neuroscience, graduate research fundamentals, phase 1 medical curriculum.

Rohan Mishra
- Email: rmishra@wustl.edu
McKelvey School of Engineering
Member until August 2026
Research: Rational design of materials for energy, optical and electronic applications, atomic-scale modeling, electronic structure calculations, electron microscopy.
Teaching: Undergraduate course on Materials Science, Graduate courses on Thermodynamics of Materials and Atomistic Modeling of Materials.

Amanda J. Ortmann
- Email: amanda.ortmann@wustl.edu
School of Medicine
Member until August 2025
Research: Hearing loss prevention and improving intervention outcomes, improving access to hearing health care.
Teaching: Graduate courses in audiology and deaf education, graduate research mentorship.

Saori Pastore
- Email: saori@wustl.edu
Arts and Sciences
Member until August 2026
Research: Theoretical nuclear physics, nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear electroweak properties, many-body methods, electron and neutrino scattering from nuclei.
Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate Quantum Mechanics, Undergraduate Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science.

Vijay Ramani
- Email: ramani@wustl.edu
Office of the Provost, McKelvey School of Engineering
Chair
Research: Studies at the confluence of Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Science, with an emphasis on electrochemical energy conversion and storage.
Teaching: Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Electrochemical Engineering, Energy Conversion and Storage, and Chemical Reaction Engineering.

William Yeoh
- Email: wyeoh@wustl.edu
McKelvey School of Engineering
Member until August 2025
Research: Artificial intelligence, specifically planning and scheduling algorithms, and their interactions with human users.
Teaching: Undergraduate level courses on artificial intelligence.

Quing Zhu
- Email: zhu.q@wustl.edu
McKelvey School of Engineering
Member until August 2024
Research: Diffuse Optical Tomography; Photoacoustic Imaging ; Optical Coherence Tomography, Imaging Reconstruction and Machine Learning.
Teaching: Graduate and Undergraduate classes on Biooptics and Bioinstrumentation.