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Mary Ann Raghanti joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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Mary Ann Raghanti has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says:

The main focus of my research is human brain evolution. I chose this field of study after spending an inordinate amount of time chasing monkeys around forests, hoping against hope that each of them would defecate close to a trail to facilitate fecal sample collection. That was followed by another unusually dedicated time period grinding up said samples for various analyses. Brains, on the whole, smell better. Nevertheless, the beguiling siren call of excreta returns to my lab and research in fascinating forms. I am driven by a passion to understand what makes us human, and one characteristic of our species is the presence bountiful scalp hair. This is just one reason why I am delighted, honored, and humbled to become a member of the LFHCfS.

Mary Ann Raghanti, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Ig Nobel Prize Winner (2020 Materials Science Prize)
Professor and Chair
Department of Anthropology
Kent State University
Kent, Ohio, USA


Jost Migenda joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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Jost Migenda has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). They say:

While black holes are widely suspected to have no hair[*], many astrophysicists do. During my research on the explosion mechanism of supernovae (magnificent astrophysical events that produce black holes or neutron stars), I have made an even more exciting discovery: Untangling the mysteries of the universe is twice as fun if you can untangle your hair at the same time!

[*] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem

Jost Migenda, Ph.D., MInstP, LFHCfS
Postdoctoral Research Associate
King’s College London
London, United Kingdom

Froylan Sosa joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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Froylan Sosa has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). Peter Hansen, who nominated him, says:

Froylan Sosa is a DVM studying for his PhD in animal molecular and cellular biology at the University of Florida. He is interested in reproductive physiology and thermal physiology.  Much of his current research focuses on a dairy cattle possessing the slick mutation in the prolactin receptor. The mutation causes cattle to develop a short sleek hair coat that would lead to permanent disqualification from the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Dairy Cattle if that organization existed.

Froylan Sosa, DVM, LFHCfS
Research Assistant
Department of Animal Sciences
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

John B. Cole joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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John B. Cole has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I am currently the PEAK Sr. VP for Research and Development at URUS Group LP, the largest producer of dairy and beef cattle semen in the US. Before joining PEAK, I was a Research Geneticist for 12 years and Acting Research Leader for 5 years in USDA’s Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, where I studied genetics and genomics of dairy cattle. I am also a member of the graduate faculties at North Carolina State University and the University of Florida. As a Louisianian who now lives in Wisconsin I’ve had to adopt many protective measures, including shoes and my flowing silver mane. It renders me instantly recognizable at scientific meetings the world over and has assured my place as a member of the Lethal Recessives, the world’s only band made up entirely of animal breeders.

John B. Cole, Ph.D., P.A.S., LFHCfS
PEAK Sr. VP for Research and Development
URUS Group LP
Madison, WI, USA

John B. Cole joins the Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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John B. Cole has joined the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS). He says:

I am currently the PEAK Sr. VP for Research and Development at URUS Group LP, the largest producer of dairy and beef cattle semen in the US. Before joining PEAK, I was a Research Geneticist for 12 years and Acting Research Leader for 5 years in USDA’s Animal Genomics and Improvement Laboratory, where I studied genetics and genomics of dairy cattle. I am also a member of the graduate faculties at North Carolina State University and the University of Florida. As a Louisianian who now lives in Wisconsin I’ve had to adopt many protective measures, including shoes and my flowing silver mane. It renders me instantly recognizable at scientific meetings the world over and has assured my place as a member of the Lethal Recessives, the world’s only band made up entirely of animal breeders.

John B. Cole, PhD., LFHCfS
PEAK Sr. VP for Research and Development
Group LP
Madison, Wisconsin, USA

Eduardo Rodriguez joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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Eduardo Rodriguez has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I am interested in genetics and am currently working on beef cattle genetics. The main focus of my research is the genetic regulation of the nutritional content of beef from Bos Indicus influenced cattle with the goal of developing genomic tools to aid in the selection of healthier beef.

Eduardo Rodriguez, LFHCfS
Graduate student
Department of Animal Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida, USA

Meic Goodyear joins the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHCfS)

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Meic Goodyear has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I was a Public Health Intelligence Specialist working at Lewisham PCT from  2003 until I retired in 2014. I have  BSc in Physics, and professional qualifications in Computer Science from the British Computer Society, in IM&T (Health) from the NHSIA, and in Public Health from the Faculty of Public Health.

Before moving into the health sector my early career encompassed shipping casualty investigation and stability analysis, leading the team planning the capacity of the Commonwealth telephone network, and commercial systems design. I spent almost seven years at the Clinical Operational Research Unit (CORU) at University College London, researching clinical databases, expert systems for clinical diagnosis and management, and mathematical modelling of clinical trials. I was subsequently appointed Honorary Research Fellow at CORU in 1996. I spent thirteen years in information management in the acute hospitals sector before moving into public health.

From 2003 – 2008 I was Senior Visiting Research Fellow in Geography and Health at Queen Mary University of London. I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society in 2000, and was an active committee member of the Health Statistics User Group. I regularly taught data manipulation to candidates for the Faculty of Public Health Part A examination, and retain a particular interest in clear presentation of numerical information in graphical formats.

Meic Goodyear, BSc, LFHCfS
Retired Public Health Intelligence Specialist
Lewes, East Sussex, UK

Alissa Clear joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Alissa Clear has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says:

I have a BSc in Biology from Purdue and a PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the City of Hope National Medical Center.I’ve worked in many labs throughout my scientific career – structural biology, agronomy, RNA biology, immuno-oncology, classical genetics, infectious disease – I’ve loved all of them, and left behind flowing luxuriant hairs in each & every one. My thesis research focused on utilizing a model system to express and study a human protein implicated in breast cancer susceptibility to identify critical functions and structural components for future drug targeting. During my grad school years, my hair fluctuated between purple and brown like a Briggs-Rauscher oscillating color change experiment, and I discovered how to master a curl. As a postdoctoral fellow, I studied antifungal drug resistance to identify genes involved in microbial escape mechanisms, and I entered my blonde phase. Now, I leverage my broad scientific background to help answer strategic questions driving novel drug development and patient-centric healthcare solutions, and endeavor ever towards the adage, “The bigger the hair, the closer to God.”

Alissa Clear, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Consultant
Clarion | A Life Sciences Consultancy
Boston, Massachusetts, USA


Peter Drake joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Peter Drake has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I have a BA in English from Willamette University, an MS in Computer Science from Oregon State University, and a PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Indiana University, Bloomington. My dissertation was on how very young children come to understand numbers. After arriving at my current institution, Lewis & Clark College, I worked on creating artificially intelligent programs to play the classical Asian game of Go. (My work was cited in the AlphaGo paper.) With that problem conquered (not solved — that has a technical meaning), I have since moved on to using deep convolutional neural networks to analyze photos of clouds and creating video games to teach people about earthquake preparedness.

I am now the chair of the Department of Mathematical Sciences. Fortunately, due to my work as faculty advisor for the college’s Fire Arts club, I have experience juggling flaming knives.

My hair used to be much shorter, but I have grown it out during the pandemic. When a student mistook me for Steven Pinker, I knew it was time to join the LFHCfS.

Peter Drake, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Chair, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, Oregon, USA

Janne Cadamuro joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Janne Cadamuro has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I endeavored a medical career ending up in a hospital laboratory as the tech/lab geek I am. As such I am evaluating laboratory diagnostic algorithms, including the use of artificial intelligence, still struggling to find a better way of diagnostic healthcare. My vision: Scotty’s medical tricorder. Until then I will continue researching improbable ways of making the patients path through this awkwardly complex medical system hopefully a little easier.

As additional field of research I am investigating the impact of three kids on the mental health of an Austrian/Italian/Swedish married couple (n=1, study period so far: 5016 days and counting).

Priv. Doz. OA Dr. Janne Cadamuro EuSpLM, LFHCfS
Uniklinikum Salzburg / Landeskrankenhaus
Universitätsinstitut für Medizinisch-Chemische Labordiagnostik und medizinische Mikrobiologie der PMU
Salzburger Landeskliniken
Salzburg, Austria

Nadiya Slobodenyuk joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Nadiya Slobodenyuk has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says:

For a while, I researched why we have a subjective experience of being able to initiate actions and control our bodies (until it’s time to get out of bed and exercise…). I have also researched why high-pitched sounds are sweet and sour, rounded shapes smell like vanilla, and darker colors feel more adhesive. Currently, I teach cognitive science students about human, animal, and machine minds, and how to conduct research.

Nadiya Slobodenyuk, Ph.D., LFHCfS
Cognitive Science InstructorDepartment of Cognitive Science, Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada

Kristina Collins joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Kristina Collins has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says:

I am a PhD candidate in electrical engineering at Case Western Reserve University, where I specialize in professional amateur radio and its application to ionospheric physics. I organize citizen science campaigns, usually during solar eclipses, in which people throw signals at the ionosphere and some of the signals bounce off of it, become all scrunched up, and land in other people’s radios. My masters work, also at CWRU, was on space laser robots for NASA and featured an entire chapter about LEGO. In my copious free time, I can be found looking for hair ties or messing about in boats.

Kristina Collins, MA, LFHCfS
Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Mauricio-José Schwarz joins Hair Club for Science Journalists (LFFFHCfSJ)

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Mauricio-José Schwarz has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing, Former, or Facial Hair Club for Science Journalists™ (LFFFHCfSJ). He says:

I have been writing, promoting and divulging science and critical thinking since 1976, working in major Mexican newspapers, radio and TV. I currently and for the past 17 years write a science page every Saturday for the Spanish newspaper “El Correo”. I also publish two YouTube channels, one on general critical thinking (youtube.com/tionoc) and one strictly on science (youtube.com/cosasquesabemos). I have also written science fiction stories, poetry and three crime novels while also writing songs, playing the guitar and taking photographs, and have taught journalism, creative writing and English. Although a few years back I finally cut my luxuriant flowing hair (first photo), my luxuriant flowing beard makes up for it quite nicely. I also read Steven Pinker with gusto, which may give me additional points.

Mauricio-José Schwarz, LFHCfS
Independent Science Journalist
Gijón, Spain

Auke-Florian Hiemstra joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Auke-Florian Hiemstra has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I’m a biologist at Naturalis Biodiversity Center, studying animal architecture. My research is focused on artificial nest material: the inclusion of plastic litter in nests. During the covid pandemic, for example, many birds started to use our facemasks as nesting materialI recently published a paper on the history of artificial plants and of the use of plastic fake plants by birds in their nests. During the weekends I’m organizing weekly canal clean-ups at De Grachtwacht (The Canal Watch), fishing up the strangest items like littered dildos and diaries from the Dutch canals. I love listening to vinyls with only whale sounds. 

Auke-Florian Hiemstra, MA, LFHCfS
Ph.D. candidate in Evolutionary Ecology
Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Leiden, The Netherlands

Abhishek Upadhyay joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Abhishek Upadhyay has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I am from central India, where I studied Biotechnology Engineering. My first research project was to investigate multicellularity in social amoebae. I went on to receive a full scholarship for a research-based masters in Marine Biology in Hong Kong, performing experiments on larvae and shell proteins of an intertidal oyster. My stint in South Africa concerned evolvability at the origin of cellular life. For my theoretical PhD in Systems Biology, I moved to Germany where I mathematically modeled the molecular switches and rhythms in the circadian clock of a filamentous fungi. I am combining experimental and theoretical approaches to elucidate the regulatory network underlying a developmental clock of the roundworm C. elegans.

Abhishek Upadhyay, LFHCfS
Postdoctoral Researcher 
Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI)
Basel, Switzerland


Sinuhé Perea-Puente joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Sinuhé Perea-Puente has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I’m a predoctoral student in Photonics and Nanotechnology at King’s College London, literally trying to see (with light) what is hidden. I like to solve problems, but since I rarely find any solution, preferring to learn and ask. I Graduated in Physics and in Mathematics at University of Oviedo (Spain)  where I was also Computational Assistant at Faculty of Chemistry, and awarded as best national young researcher by CEULAJ & ICMAT (CSIC). My current research focuses on near-field and topological photonics in (lossy) systems and geology, light nano-routing, skyrmions, algebraic number theory (odd perfect numbers conjecture because, remember, even primes are odd), and freshman Economics.

Sinuhé Perea-Puente, LFHCfS
PhD Student — Novel Nanophotonic Phenomena
King’s College London
London, UK

Charles DeLorey joins Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists (LFHfC)

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Charles DeLorey has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

I am a PhD student in mechanical engineering at Boston University, having completed my Master’s at Imperial College London (2021) and my BS in CS at Tufts University (2020).

Charles DeLorey, MRes., LFHCfS
PhD student in Mechanical Engineering
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Jan Philipp Röer joins the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS)

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Jan Philipp Röer has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). He says:

Hair plays a very important role in my research, specifically the hair cells of the inner ear. I’m interested in what makes a sound attract our attention and the mechanisms we have in place to prevent irrelevant sound from doing so.

Jan Philipp Röer, LFHCfS
Professor of Experimental Psychology
Witten/Herdecke University
Witten, Germany

Jan Philipp Roer & Steven Pinker, both members of the LFHCfS

Jan Philipp Roer & Steven Pinker (both LFHCfS members)

Angelica Ørregaard Lindholm joins the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS)

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Angelica Ørregaard Lindholm has joined the The Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists™ (LFHCfS). She says: I am a PhD candidate in forensic toxicology at the University of Copenhagen, where I am studying the effects of nitrous oxide on the ability to drive and how to detect intake of nitrous oxide in blood samples. My […]
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