EEB International Student Directory

Prospective international students can feel free to contact current international graduate students in EEB for further information regarding graduate school application processes. 

Mariana Cardenas (carde196@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Daniel Stanton
  • Country of Origin: Colombia/Venezuela
  • Spoken Languages: Spanish, English (to survive)

Rodrigo Zorrilla González (zorri004@umn.edu

  • Advisor(s): Michael Travisano
  • Country of Origin: Mexico
  • Spoken Languages: Spanish, English, Mandarin (conversational)

Lata Kalra (kalra023@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Mark Bee
  • Country of Origin: India
  • Spoken Languages: Hindi, English

Dongmin (Dennis) Kim (kimx3725@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Allison Shaw and John Fieberg
  • Country of Origin: South Korea
  • Spoken Languages: Korean, English

Elihuruma (Wilson) Kimaro (kimar001@umn.edu

  • Advisor(s): Michael Wilson and Jennifer Powers
  • Country of Origin: Tanzania 
  • Spoken Languages: Swahili, English

Zheng (Oz) Oong (oong0001@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Sushma Reddy
  • Country of Origin:  Malaysia
  • Spoken Languages: Native fluency in Mandarin, English, Malay (Standard Bahasa Malaysia), and (Penang) Hokkien

Kavy Pathirana (pathi010@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Sharon Jansa
  • Country of Origin: Sri Lanka
  • Spoken Languages: English, Sinhala

Eduardo Pérez-Pazos (perez844@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Peter G. Kennedy
  • Country of Origin: Mexico
  • Spoken Languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese (a little bit)

Chau Pham (pham0326@umn.edu)

  • Advisor: Jennifer Powers
  • Country of origin: Vietnam
  • Spoken languages: Vietnamese, English, basic French

Siddhant Pusdekar (pusde001@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
  • Country of Origin: India
  • Spoken Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, (broken) Malayalam

Alexander Shephard (sheph095@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood
  • Country of Origin: Canada
  • Spoken Languages: English, Francais (un peu)

Aarcha Thadi (thadi003@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Marlene Zuk
  • Country of Origin: India (but am a British citizen)
  • Spoken Languages: English, conversational Malayalam and Hindi

Naven Narayanan Venkatanarayanan (venka210@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Allison Shaw
  • Country of Origin: India
  • Spoken Languages: Tamil, English, Hindi

Amod Zambre (zambr043@umn.edu)

  • Advisor(s): Emilie Snell-Rood 
  • Country of Origin: India
  • Spoken Languages: English, Hindi , Marathi