Hazel Anne P.

Pepito STS 101 07464

BSBA FM 1A March 29, 2022

FILIPINO SCIENTISTS

1. ALFREDO MAHAR FRANCISCO A. LAGMAY

A consultant for the World Bank, Lagmay is a leading

international scientific expert on natural disasters. One
example of a study he has done was on the geological
hazards of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, which was used
as scientific basis for the deliberations on the rehabilitation
of the mothballed nuclear plant.

2. AISA MEJINO

Aisa Mijeno is the Co-Founder & CEO of SALt

(Sustainable Alternative Lighting). She developed a metal-air
based technology with an application of an LED lamp and
low-power mobile devices charger. Scientist and SALt co-
founder, Aisa, designed a lantern that ran on, yes,
salt (specifically a glass of water and two teaspoons of it).
She then identified over 1,500 community beneficiaries
across the Philippines who now rely on her SALt invention

3.LUCILLE V. ABAD

Dr. Lucille V. Abad is a radiation chemist, specializing in

radiation chemistry and processing of polymers. She has been a
lead country and national project coordinator of IAEA regional
projects on subjects related to radiation cross linking, degradation
and grafting of polymers for health, agricultural and industrial
applications. She also undertakes researches on radiation
processing, as program or project leader, within the country. She is
a Career Scientist, currently heads the Chemistry Research Section,
and the Officer-in-charge of the Atomic Research Division of the
PNRI.
 4.ROGEL MARI SESE

Rogel Mari D. Sese is a Filipino astrophysicist who is

known for being a proponent of space science in the
Philippines. Sese led the National SPACE Development
Program which crafted the Philippine Space Development
and Utilization Policy and proposal for the creation of the
Philippine Space Agency. She and her group analyzed data
from 70,000 galaxies and found that they were clustered
and grouped together across the universe exactly as
Einstein's theory had predicted. Their observations were
also consistent with the existence of dark energy and dark
matter.

5. JEFFREY PEREZ

Jeffrey Perez, Supervising Science Research Specialist

of the Department of Science and Technology-Philippine
Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (DOST-PHIVOLCS),
is hailed as one of the Outstanding Young Scientists by the
National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) for his
contributions in the field of geology. He led the active faults
and paleoseismic studies along the Philippine fault, and was
also part of the team that mapped and conducted
paleoseismic studies along the Valley Fault System that
traverses Greater Metro Manila Area and other active faults
in the Philippines.

6. MARIO ANTONIO JIZ LI

Jiz was recognized as a 2017 National Academy of

Science and Technology Outstanding Young Scientist for his
contributions to the understanding of immunity to
schistosomiasis, a parasitic infection affecting millions of
Filipinos. Through the analysis of antibody responses of
patients from Leyte, he was able to identify Paramyosin as a
lead vaccine candidate and successfully developed the
vaccine against the disease. True to its mission, RITM
continues to further its thrust in providing relevant, quality
health services to protect Filipinos from infectious, tropical and dermatological diseases such as
the research of Dr. Mario Jiz II.

7. PHILIP A. ALVIOLA

In the early years of his career, Prof. Alviola has

contributed substantially in the development of
methodologies for the monitoring of biological diversity in
protected areas. As a mammalogist, he has authored/co-
authored 13 papers on mammalian taxonomy, and diversity
on mountain ecosystems. Prof. Alviola’s research
involvements resulted in the description of 10 new
mammals (including a new genus and subgenus), and
testing of several hypotheses on mammalian ecology.He has
also contributed to studies on bat viruses and public health. As a bat biologist, he has helped
foreign and Filipino virologists capture and identify bats, and isolate novel viruses (and
antibodies) from them.

8.IRENE CRISOLOGO

Irene is a postdoc at Northwestern University

who studies rainfall and how rainfall can be measured more
accurately. She uses data from multiple instruments, mainly
weather radars, to understand the process of precipitation
from droplets in the atmosphere to the potential hazards
when it reaches the ground.

9.REINA REYES

Filipina scientist Reina Reyes first made headlines a decade

ago when, as a 20-something graduate student in Princeton
University, she won an achievement award for her research on
supermassive blackholes called quasars. Since then, the
remarkable work of the young astrophysicist has been finding its
way to Philippine media. The most popular one was her study
confirming Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Now, she's back
in the Philippines as principal scientist for a multinational health
care company.
 10.JULIUS SEMPIO

A licensed geodetic engineer who can write scholarly

papers and short stories, an employee of various academic
science projects, and an artist currently involved in two comics
projects one personal and the other science-inspired. Sempio,
who specializes in geoinformatics and remote sensing,
is helping develop an effective archive and database for images
coming from Diwata-1, a Philippine micro-satellite launched
into orbit last year, and the future Diwata-2.