“Jesús Alvelo is a Microbiologist with a background in biofuels and infectious diseases. Presently, he is serving as a 2017-2018 AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in NSF’s Directorate of Engineering, Division of Engineering and Educational Centers. Prior to the AAAS Fellowship, Jesús was a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying the fluid dynamics of disease transmission. While at MIT, Jesús also served as a volunteer scientific advisor for the Gubernatorial Candidate and former Secretary of State of Puerto Rico David Bernier. Jesús earned his Ph.D. from University of Massachusetts Amherst and his B.S. from Universidad de Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. While at UMASS Amherst, he worked with Dr. Susan B. Leschine researching membrane energetics on a biofuel producing bacteria using a combination of microscopy, biochemistry and protein modelling.” – NSF webpage