Night of Ideas

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Esther Lahoud-Heilbronner

Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate at Caltech

Metal Isotopes: A New Window Into Human Health

Dr Esther Lahoud-Heilbronner is a postdoctoral scholar research associate in isotopic chemistry with a focus on biomedical applications at Caltech. She then completed her Ph.D in 2025 in isotope geochemistry at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris, where she developed a novel isotopic diagnostic approach for Alzheimer’s disease. Heilbronner recently joined Prof. François Tissot’s lab, The Isotoparium, at Caltech where her research continues to explore isotopic methods applied to medical science, focusing on osteoporosis.

Esther Lahoud-Heilbronner
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Lucas Lange

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Many Faces of Mars

Dr Lucas Lange is a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He models thermodynamical conditions at the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter’s icy moons. He conducts future interpretation of E-THEMIS measurement aboard the Europa Clipper mission, specializes in thermal infrared data, as well as climate modeling, the evolution of the Martian climate over the past million years, and the interactions between planetary surfaces and their atmospheres.

Dr Lucas Lange
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Eloise Masquelier

Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate at Caltech

From Squid Camouflage to Alzheimer's Disease: What Protein Electrochemistry Reveals

Dr Eloise Masquelier is a postdoctoral scholar research associate in Chemical Engineering at Caltech in the lab of Professor Sujit Datta. She tudied Materials Science at Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland where she earned her bachelor and master before joining University of California, Santa Barbara to complete her PhD. There, she combined electrochemistry and spectroscopy to study dynamic biomolecular processes.

Eloise Masquelier

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