Carlos Rico Ph.D.
Junior Board, Former Lead Outreach & Workshop Coordinator; GSMI Data Analysis Director
Carlos graduated from Hamilton College in 2010 where he majored in chemical physics. For graduate studies, he joined the laboratory of Dr. Thomas Sakmar at the Rockefeller University as part of the tri-institutional training program in chemical biology. Carlos was awarded the NSF graduate research fellowship in 2012 to support his research efforts. He received his Ph.D. in 2017 where he employed single-molecule methods to interrogate receptor-ligand binding interactions. He then joined the bio-imaging resource center at the Rockefeller University where he taught other scientists how to operate various light microscopes. He obtained his M.D. degree from Weill Cornell Medicine in 2024 and is currently a resident in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
