Program Awardees

Fulfilling a commitment to strengthen the academic ranks at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, Scripps has dedicated institutional funding for the recruitment of new postdoctoral scholars each year.

In launching the Scripps Postdoctoral Scholar Program in 2007, Scripps put the spotlight on postdoctoral researchers as valuable assets to its research enterprise. The commitment of institutional support for these positions is significant because postdoctoral employee recruitment is typically funded entirely by the scientists who seek them, which can impact the already sparse resources needed to conduct research. 

2024-2025

Ilysa Iglesias
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Anela Choy
 
Yan Yang
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Wenyuan Fan
 
Yifeng Mao
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
 

2023-2024

Ashley Burke
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Bradley Moore

Elizabeth Reed-Weidner
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsors: Grant Deane / Fiamma Straneo

Johannes West
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Amina Schartup

 

2022-2023

Bernardo Bastien-Olvera
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsors: Kate Ricke / Octavio Aburto-Oropeza
 
Jessica Kendall-Barr
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Paul Ponganis
 
Sujania Talavera Soza
Section: Earth
Sponsors: Gabi Laske / Peter Shearer
 

2021-2022

Jennifer Bowen
Section:  Earth
 
Mara Freilich
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsors:  Sarah Gille / Matt Mazloff / Peter Franks
 

2020-2021

Lia Siegelman
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: William Young

Jessica Goodheart
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Deirdre Lyons

Surui Xie
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Mark Zumberge

2019-2020

Thomas Lorimer
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Andrew Barton / Jules Jaffe / George Sugihara

Alexander Chase
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Paul Jensen

Brendan Reilly
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Lisa Tauxe

2018-2019

Shineng Hu
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Shang-Ping Xie

Alexander Clifford
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Martin Tresguerres / Greg Rouse

Rachel Bernard
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Emily Chin

2017-2018

Natalie Freeman
Section: Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Janet Sprintall / Sarah Purkey / Matt Mazloff

Oliver Ashford
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Lisa Levin

Emily Pringle
Section: Earth
Sponsor: James Day

2016-2017

Tristan Biard​
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Mark Ohman

Zhou Zhang
Section:  Earth
Sponsor: Anne Pommier​

2015-2016

Thiago Lima
Section:  Biology
Sponsor:  Ronald Burton

Yves Moussallam
Section: Earth
Sponsor:  David Hilton 

Marine Tort
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor:  Kraig Winters and George Carnevale


2014-2015

Tyler Cyronak
Section:  Earth
Sponsor:  Andreas Andersson

Xichen Li
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor:  Sarah Gille and Shang-Ping Xie

2013-2014

Maya S. de Vries
Section:  Biology
Sponsor:  Jennifer Taylor

Florent Gasparin
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Dean Roemmich

2012-2013

Darren Johnson
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Brice Semmens

Rebecca Walsh Dell
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Ian Eisenman

Kirsten Chojnicki
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Darcy Ogden

2011-2012

Martin Lindegren
Section: Biology
Sponsor: David Checkley

​Basile Gallet
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Bill Young

Christopher Waters
Section: Earth
Sponsor: James Day

2010-2011

Kristen Whalen
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Amro Hamdoun

Robert Modini
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Lynn Russell

Gareth Williams
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Stuart Sandin

2009-2010

Jeremy Goldbogen
Section: Biology
Sponsor: John Hildebrand

Manfredi Manizza
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Ralph Keeling

Yoshihiro Kaneko
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Yuri Fialko

2008-2009

Nichole Price
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Jennifer Smith

ChuanLi Jiang
Section:  Oceans & Atmosphere
Sponsor: Sarah Gille

Sasha Peter Carter
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Helen Amanda Fricker

2007-2008

Anne-Claire Baudoux
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Farooq Azam

Qian Li
Section: Biology
Sponsor: Peter Franks

Phil Livermore
Section: Earth
Sponsor: Glen Ierley