A PhD, STEM teacher with research experience at Stanford / UCSF

Sriparna M.

My academic credentials include a Bachelor in Chemistry, a Master in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, a PhD in Biophysics (Neurophysiology) and Certifications in Data Science and Social Dance. I have been interested in a teaching career since I graduated from college. However, I have pursued higher education and research instead of teaching for several years due to many grants and scholarships being available to me.

For the last 2 decades, I performed laboratory research in the field of visual and cognitive neuroscience at world’s premier research institutions like Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, University of California San Francisco and Stanford University. I taught cognitive neuroscience and neuroscience lab at the Santa Clara University for 2 years in 2022-2024. I am currently teaching part time at C2 Education and Art of Problem Solving as middle / high school Math and Science teacher. I find myself extremely competent to teach all STEM subjects at the middle and high school level.

I have a combined 10+ years of experience in tutoring STEM subjects like chemistry, physics, math and computer programming at high school or junior college levels. During my graduate college years, I assisted in a Biophysical Chemistry course at the Indian Institute of Science. During my research career between 1997 and now, I trained many graduate, undergrad and high school students in laboratory sciences. I like to read textbooks and research articles, and use graphs and images to better my understanding. In my classes I strongly advocate the need to exercise graphing and solving problems to find a correlate of abstract subjects (eg. perception) to real subjects (eg. animal visual organs) we encounter around us. Collaborative projects, discussions among peers and peer review of each other’s work would be my methods to ensure active learning and critical assessments of our and others’ works.