Phil Ko earned his Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University for his research on visual memory, attention, and object representation. During his postdoctoral fellowship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, he examined how visual memory systems change with age, dementia, and different states of awareness, using electroencephalographic and eye movement measurements. Dr. Ko is also an educator, both in the classroom and the community. He has held faculty positions at Vanderbilt University and Austin Peay State University, and has actively brought science to various community events in Nashville for children and the elderly. As a AAAS S&T Policy Fellow, he hopes to further learn how to bridge the scientific community and the public. Phil enjoys playing music in his spare time.

Vincent Tedjasaputra is currently the Director of Scientific Communications at the American Lung Association. He completed his AAAS STP Fellowship at the National Science Foundation, Office of Legislative and Public Affairs. He is a former college athlete-turned Exercise Physiologist from San Diego, CA. He earned a B.S. in Human Biology at UC San Diego, an M.S. in Exercise Physiology at San Diego State University, a Ph.D. in Physical Education and Recreation the University of Alberta, and a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Pulmonary Physiology at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Outside of science, Vincent is a classically trained vocalist and amateur ice hockey player, drawing on both his lung science and exercise physiology background.