Doctoral Council

PhD Student in the Division of Biology & Biomedical Sciences – Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology Member until May 2027 Research Interests: Transcription factor intrinsically disordered region evolution and sequence-function relationships

PhD Student in Hispanic Studies Member until May 2027 Research Interests: Theater Studies, Performance Studies, popular and material culture, public sphere and cultural policies in the Southern Cone

Arts & Sciences Member since August 2025 Research:  Biochemistry and structural biology of plant and microbial metabolic pathways. Teaching:  Biotech Explorers Pathway (an A&S First-Year Program – Bio1210, Bio1220, Bio3010), the two-semester Biochemistry course sequence (Chem4810, Chem4820), and summer undergraduate research programs (Amgen Scholars, Beckman Scholars, and NSF-REU).

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.

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: Purpose in life; wellbeing across the lifespan; identity development; personality and cognitive aging. Teaching: Health psychology, social gerontology, personality psychology.

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.

Expertise: Electrochemical energy conversion and storage Research: Vijay’s research interests lie at the confluence of electrochemical engineering, materials science, and energy technologies, with a focus on electrochemical energy conversion and storage (low temperature fuel cells, electrolyzers and redox-flow batteries). NSF, ONR, DOE, ARPA-E, and industry currently fund/have funded his research. He is a fellow of the Electrochemical […]

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.