Postdoc Slam 2025 Screening Judges

The screening judges review the video presentations initially submitted by postdocs and will choose the finalists for the Postdoc Slam live contest. A separate set of final judges will choose the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners at the live Postdoc Slam event on September 17.


Diego Calderon, PhD • Assistant Professor, UCSF Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences

Sophie Huddart, PhD • Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF; UCSF postdoc alum; Postdoc Slam 2022 3rd prize winner

Jennifer Chu Kaelin, MS • Academic Coordinator, UCSF Science and Health Education Partnership

Mazen Kheirbek, PhD • Professor, UCSF Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Tiffani K. Quan, PhD • Administrative Director, UCSF’s Medical Scientist Training Program; past president, UCSF Graduate Division Alumni Association; UCSF postdoc alum

Irene Salter, PhD ’02 • Leadership coach, writer, trainer; founder, Inquiring Minds; UCSF Neuroscience PhD alum; board member, UCSF Graduate Division Alumni Association

Stacy Torres, PhD • Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCSF Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences