Ghita Guessous


Location

La Jolla, CA
Education
    University of California-San Diego
    September 2017 - March 2024
    degree
    Ph.D
    major
    Biophysics
    Princeton University
    United World College of the Adriatic
Work Experience
    Nucleate
    Research Associate and Liaison
    December 2021 - present
    company
    Nucleate
    title
    Research Associate and Liaison
    overview
    - Co-authored deep tech reports landscaping the biomanufacturing and spider silk industries. Performed NLP based analyses of patents to assess the technical landscape - Identified and sourced industry experts (in R&D, VC ) for a plastics recycling startup team. * Fundraised over 10k$ through biotech companies and VCs for the Activator program
    Physics department, UCSD
    Teaching Assistant
    January 2017 - present
    Academic Connections
    Instructor of Record
    June 2021 - December 2022
    Hwa Lab
    UCSD. Graduate Student Researcher
    June 2021 - December 2022
    UCSD Physical Sciences
    Graduate Mentor and Co-leader of the Young Physicist Program
    January 2020 - December 2022
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Skills
Languages
ArabicChineseEnglishFrenchHebrewItalianRussianSpanish
Volunteer
    Feeding San Diego
    January 2018 - December 2020
    Young Physicist Program
    January 2020 - December 2022
Hobbies
Yoga
Running
Duolingo
Cooking