Professor Laura Dassama Department of Chemistry, Stanford University B.S. Temple University 2007 Ph.D. Penn State University, 2013 (won PSU Alumni Achievement award this week) Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University, 2017 Research Associate, Harvard Medical School and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, 2018 From her postdoctoral work: Laura is a beer aficionado who has visited 6 of 12 Trappist breweries and routinely brews Belgian IPAs. She considers the process of brewing a perfect representation of her interests in microbiology and chemistry.