UWC SciCol Mentorship Program
A strongly motivated and passionate UWC student seeking guidance in an advanced field?
Want access to a global network of alumni, conducting similar research?
Four-week virtual mentorship, built to equip advanced UWC students in gaining skills in research, entrepreneurship and more.
2025 Program Dates:
July 2 - August 2
Mentee Eligibility:
1) A current UWC student enrolled at one of the 18 campuses
2) UWC alumni taking gap year(s), or currently enrolled as an undergraduate
Mentee Registration Deadline: June 23, 2025
Meet the Mentors
Quantum Physics
Quantum Computing PhD Student @ Yale
| NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Field: Quantum Computing (Architectures and Algorithms)
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, current UWC students
Incoming Quantum Physics PhD @ Harvard
Field: Quantum Technologies with Atomic Platforms
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, current UWC students
Quantum Optics PhD @ UColorado Boulder
Field: Experimental Quantum Optics
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, current UWC students
Particle Physics
Particle Physics PhD @ Caltech
Field: Physics/particle physics/experimental physics/ high energy physics
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, current UWC students
Plasma Physics
Plasma Physics PhD @ Imperial College London
Field: Plasma Physics
Open to mentoring: Current UWC students
Astrophysics
Software Engineer @ Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Field: Submillimeter / FIR astrophysics and technologies
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
Condensed Matter Physics
Postdoc @ Uni of Hamburg
Field: Condensed Matter Physics
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
Neuroscience
Cambridge Gates Scholar | Knight-Hennessy Scholar | MD at Stanford School of Medicine
Field: Neurosurgery, cancer immunology, neuroscience
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates
Neuroscience Research Associate @ NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Field: Neurobiology of disease
Open to mentoring: Current UWC students
Life Sciences Consultant and ex-European Chief of Staff @ L.E.K. | Imperial, Brown and UWC alumna
Field: Neuroscience / Epigenetics / Pharmaceutical research / Oncology
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
Alima Dean
Undergrad @ Cornell University | Biology & LSAMP Scholar
Field: Biological Sciences and Statistics
Open to mentoring: Current UWC students
Research Technician @ Columbia University
Field: Neuroscience
Open to mentoring: Current UWC students
Immunology
PhD student in Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge
Field: Immune System in Parkinson's Disease
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
Elena Tonc
Visiting Assistant Professor @ Macalester College
Field: Immunology/biology
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates
Cell Biology
PhD Student at UMich MCDB
Field: Cell biology + Cancer biology
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC Students
Biophysics
Platform Development and Integration @ Protillion Biosciences
Field: Biophysics/Biochemistry; protein/DNA sequencing methods, protein therapeutics
Open to mentoring: Current UWC Students
Biophysics PhD @ KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Field: Biophysics, Microscopy, Cell Biology
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC Students
Microbiology
Microbe-Host Interactions Graduate Program PhD @ Vanderbilt
Field: Microbiology and biochemistry
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC Students
Science Communication
Lead Scientific Communication @ Ad Scientiam
Field: Developmental Biology (PhD) and Science Communication
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC Students
Inorganic Chemistry
Chemistry PhD at University of Washington, Seattle
Field: Chemistry -- Inorganic/ Materials Chemistry
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
Epidemiology
Jovana Jovanovska
Epidemiology PhD @ Wisconsin Madison
Field: Epidemiology/Biostatistics/Alzheimer's Disease/Genomics
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
Computer Science
Machine Learning PhD @ Harvard
Field: Immune System in Parkinson's Disease
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
CS PhD @ LTI-CMU
Field: Natural Language Processing, ML System
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC students
CS PhD @ Cornell
Field: Computer Science, Machine Learning
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates
Biomedical Engineering
Hana Kalčo
BME PhD @ Boston University
Field: Biomedical Engineering, Orthopedics
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates, Current UWC Students
Entrepreneurship
Biodesign Innovation Fellow | Cofounder @Skywalk | Knight-Hennessy Scholar & Physicist @Stanford
Field: Neural interface (physicist by training)
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates
Founder @Curlywags | Building CurlyWags: Science-Backed Grooming for Curly-Coated Dogs | Patented Product Innovator
Field: Startup Founder, Software Engineering, AI/ML, systems, Entrepreneurship
Open to mentoring: Undergraduates and Current UWC Students
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