Following a very successful “Reunite_with_Trinity” inauguration event in October 2024, with Dr. Chunendra K Sahu (IIT Kanpur, India), we are delighted to be welcoming two more Postdoctoral Society alumni to take part in the series in 2025.

Dr Trisna Tungadi, Lecturer in Plant Health (School of Life Sciences, Keele University, UK) and Dr Lior Medina, Senior Lecturer (School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel) join us from 7-8.30pm on 3 March on Microsoft Teams to talk about their research and their  post-Cambridge journeys.

To join, please click here or use the Meeting ID 386 933 813 743 and Passcode ei7jz2nF on Microsoft Teams.

We are excited to welcome you back to the Trinity College Postdoctoral Society (TCPDS). Please contact the Academic & Networking Events Officer, Dr Mousumi Shyam, if you are interested in giving a talk and/or interacting with current society members.

Speaker Bios

Dr Trisna Tungadi – Lecturer in Plant Health, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, UK

Trisna obtained her PhD in plant virology from the Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge in 2014 working with Prof John Carr. Afterwards, she remained in the same group working as a postdoc for a further 5 years from 2014-2019. In 2017, Trisna joined Trinity College postdoc society and was an active member of the first postdoc committee. She and several other postdocs formed the first postdoc crew and learnt to row with First and Third Trinity boat club, alongside Trinity students and fellows. In 2019, Trisna left Cambridge and moved to the National Institute of Agriculture Botany in Kent, UK as a postdoc to work on spotted wing Drosophila, a major insect pest in the soft fruit industry. In October 2022, Trisna joined Keele University in Staffordshire, UK as a lecturer and where she is currently building her first research group. Her main research focus is on plant-virus-vector interactions, specifically how vector biology influence virus transmission efficiency in the field.

W: https://www.keele.ac.uk/lifesci/ourpeople/trisnatungadi/

Dr Lior Medina – Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Lior was a Blavatnik postdoctoral fellow at University of Cambridge from October 2019- October 2021 and worked on electrostatically multistable structures under the guidance of Prof. Seshia. In October 2021, Lior started as a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University. Recently he secured an ERC Starter Grant- to achieve a new type of a microstructure, dubbed as micro-meta-structures, taking MEMS based sensors to their next evolutionary step, granting new abilities such as multistability, non-volatility, and reconfigurability. These new features will not only foster further miniaturisation and simplify design, but also unlock new possibilities in sensor technology.