Jessica Kelz, a graduate student in the UC Irvine Department of Chemistry in the lab of Professor Rachel Martin, builds instruments that can help determine the structures of proteins.

Kelz just applied for and won the University of California’s Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship award. It’s a prestigious award that goes to only a handful of postdocs across the UC system each year, and it gives women and minority Ph.D. recipients the financial support they need to do their research.

Congratulations to Jessica Kelz!