Doctoral Council

Arts & Sciences Member since January 2025 Research: Philosophy of Biology; History and Philosophy of Medicine; Philosophy of Science; Biomedical Ethics, biomedical research ethics, particularly issues surrounding precision oncology, cancer genomics, and risk communication. Teaching:  Courses include Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Medicine, Philosophy of Biology, and PNP Seminar on Mental Health & […]

McKelvey School of Engineering Member until May 2028 Research:  Kathy Flores’ primary research interest is the mechanical behavior of high performance structural materials, with particular emphasis on understanding structure-processing-property relationships in bulk metallic glasses and their composites.

PhD Student in German and Comparative Literature Member until August 2025 Research Interests: Contemporary Literature, LGBTQ+ Literature, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis

PhD Candidate in Movement Science Member until May 2026 Research Interests: Orthopaedic biomechanics and musculoskeletal modeling

Olin Business School Member until July 2026 Research: Judgment and Decision Making, Prosocial Behavior, Financial Decision Making, Incentives, Field and Internet Research Methodology. Teaching: MBA courses in Marketing Management; PhD courses in Experimental Methodology in Behavioral Science.

Brown School Member until July 2026 Research: Housing and environmental justice, child and family programs and policies, community-engaged systems and data sciences. Teaching: Conceptual foundations of anti-racist social science, responsible AI, program and policy evaluation, equitable prevention and promotion program design.

Brown School Member until August 2026 Research: Statistical methods of causal inference, longitudinal modeling, methods of program evaluation and intervention research, child mental health services. Teaching: Graduate courses on linear and generalized linear modeling, survival analysis, and methods of causal inference.

Arts and Sciences Member until August 2026 Research: Social organization and political institutions of ancient nomadic societies, Economy, paleoenvironmental interactions of extreme environments throughout prehistory, Urbanism and trade along the ancient Silk Roads. Teaching: Undergraduate courses include the formation of long-term social landscapes, ancient nomadic ecology, and 3D modeling with Geospatial technologies. Graduate courses include […]

Arts and Sciences Member until August 2026 Research: Theoretical nuclear physics, nuclear structure and reactions, nuclear electroweak properties, many-body methods, electron and neutrino scattering from nuclei. Teaching: Undergraduate and graduate Quantum Mechanics, Undergraduate Introduction to Mathematical and Computational Methods in Science.

Arts and Sciences Member until August 2026 Research: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging. Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.

McKelvey School of Engineering Member until August 2026 Research: Rational design of materials for energy, optical and electronic applications, atomic-scale modeling, electronic structure calculations, electron microscopy. Teaching: Undergraduate course on Materials Science, Graduate courses on Thermodynamics of Materials and Atomistic Modeling of Materials.

School of Medicine Member until August 2026 Research: Stroke recovery, Rehabilitation, and Accelerometry Teaching: Graduate content in motor systems neuroscience, motor control, and research design. Graduate research mentorship.

Olin Business School Member until August 2027

Research: Studies at the confluence of Electrochemical Engineering and Materials Science, with an emphasis on electrochemical energy conversion and storage. Teaching: Undergraduate and Graduate courses in Electrochemical Engineering, Energy Conversion and Storage, and Chemical Reaction Engineering.

School of Medicine Member until August 2025 Research: Hearing loss prevention and improving intervention outcomes, improving access to hearing health care. Teaching: Graduate courses in audiology and deaf education, graduate research mentorship.

Arts & Sciences Member until August 2025 Research: Cultural history; popular and material culture; public space and state formation in Latin America; collective identities. Teaching: Courses focused on the cultural history of the Americas; the impacts of cultural goods and activities on politics, identities, and public life; and research methods and professional writing.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S) Member until August 2026 Research: Environmental microbes & processes. Professor Bose’s lab generates new ways of addressing issues such as the energy crisis, climate change, pollution, human health, sustainability and the circular economy. Teaching: Undergraduate course in microbiology and graduate course in experimental design and critical thinking.

Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences (A&S) Member until August 2024 Research: Cellular and circuit level neuroscience, neuropharmacology. Teaching: Graduate and postdoctoral apprenticeships,  graduate neuroscience, graduate research fundamentals, phase 1 medical curriculum.

McKelvey School of Engineering Member until August 2026 Research: Super-resolution microscopy; nanoscale sensing; single-molecule spectroscopy; optimal design, detection, and estimation. Teaching: Undergraduate classes on applied linear algebra and electromagnetics, graduate course on modern optical imaging.