King Center Faculty Affiliates Available as Mentors for Postdoctoral Fellows in AY26–27
The following King Center Faculty Affiliates have agreed to mentor the center’s Postdoctoral Fellows in AY26–27. Prospective Postdoctoral Fellows will be asked to choose one Faculty Affiliate from this list in their application as their proposed faculty mentor, should they be selected as a King Center Postdoctoral Fellow. There is no need for applicants to reach out to their proposed faculty mentor at this stage.
Jason Andrews, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: infectious diseases in vulnerable populations, including tuberculosis, typhoid fever, and tropical diseases; methods to improve measurement of disease burden, including environmental surveillance, seroepidemiology, and accessible diagnostics; health and human rights for persons deprived of liberty
Alfredo Artiles, Graduate School of Education
Topics of interest: educational equity, inclusive education
Eran Bendavid, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: assessing the resilience of healthcare systems to extreme climate events; the extent of these phenomena, its geographic distribution, and the ability of healthcare systems to respond (e.g. move in-person appointments to telehealth); improving allocation of humanitarian response to armed conflict, building frameworks to understand and improve humanitarian response
Hélène Benveniste, Environmental Social Sciences, Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: climate-related human migration and immobility under environmental stress; global environmental governance and the politics of international goal setting; political economy of decarbonization and energy transitions; distributive dimensions of environmental change
Jennifer Burney, Global Environmental Policy and Earth System Science, Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: the intersection of agriculture, food security, and climate adaptation
Jade Benjamin-Chung, Epidemiology & Population Health, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: global health (primarily infectious diseases and maternal and child health), environmental health and development, and climate and health/planetary health
Katherine Casey, Political Economy, Graduate School of Business
Topics of interest: the role of information in enhancing political accountability, selection into politics, foreign aid and economic development, decentralization and the provision of public goods
Arun Chandrasekhar, Department of Economics
Topics of interest: information, social learning, technology, adoption, networks, informal insurance and the sharing of risk, public, good provision, fractionalization and identity, experimental design, generalizability and external validity, and economic history
Sara Constantino, Environmental Social Sciences, Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: the intersection of poverty and climate change/environment, from an impacts and adaptation perspective (e.g., access to clean water, heat stress, displacement, livelihood impacts, and personal and community adaptation and resilience measures etc.) as well as mitigation (e.g. including education interventions, energy efficiency, and renewable energy development); work that considers the politics and institutions (formal and informal) supporting or impacting climate resilience and poverty; the intersection of cash transfers and poverty alleviation/resilience; and work that considers social, cognitive and institutional factors shaping the success of interventions or as outcomes
Gary Darmstadt, Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: addressing key disparities in global maternal and child health and in gender equality and health, including multidisciplinary and systems approaches to addressing gaps in care for women and children; examples include applications of omics and machine learning to profile and predict conditions in pregnancy and childhood, development of interventions to improve care of preterm infants, such as kangaroo mother care and topical emollient therapy, implementation research to improve care in pregnancy, such as uptake of aspirin to prevent preeclampsia and preterm birth, gender norms and analysis of disparities in opportunities, care and outcomes by gender
Giulio De Leo, Oceans, Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: parasitic disease of poverty in tropical and subtropical countries, the relationship between poverty and diseases, policies for agricultural expansion and intensification that may impact population health outcomes
Charles Eesley, Management Science and Engineering
Topics of interest: entrepreneurship in global development, the role of technology in poverty alleviation, and organizational strategies for refugee integration
Philip Fisher, Graduate School of Education
Topics of interest: early childhood workforce professional development, development and evaluation of early childhood interventions (especially in the context of social and economic adversity), and population-based measures of child and family well-being
Solomon Hsiang, Global Environmental Policy, Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: climate change and development, conflict, agriculture, natural capital, international policy, ecosystems; our group integrates economics with natural science and data science to study how the environment and policies affect economic development
Dan Andrei Iancu, Operations, Information and Technology, Graduate School of Business
Topics of interest: tropical deforestation and forced labor in global (commodity) supply chains, using data analytics and AI to improve access to goods and services in developing economies, energy access, improving nutrition and food systems
Nathan Lo, Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: research related to surveillance and public health control of schistosomiasis, a neglected disease associated with poverty; computer programming, modeling, and infectious diseases and epidemiology
Ivana Maric, Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology), School of Medicine
Topics of interest: use of machine learning and AI to predict adverse outcomes of pregnancy and child growth from omics and electronic health records data; development of low-cost diagnostic tools applicable worldwide and especially in low-resource settings; use of large language models in assisting with maternal and neonatal healthcare
Erin Mordecai, Department of Biology
Topics of interest: impacts of global change (climate, land use, etc.) on infectious disease dynamics and health, including LMICs (we currently work in Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Kenya, Costa Rica, and on global datasets)
Khalid Osman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topics of interest: infrastructure disparity, service access and affordability, resource inequity, infrastructure resilience and reliability, knowledge, energy policy, and infrastructure design in Sub-Saharan Africa
Joelle Rosser, Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: global health, climate change and planetary health, infectious diseases (focus on arboviruses and invasive fungal infections), spatial epidemiology, remote sensing with drone & satellite imaging, infectious disease modeling with climate change and interventions, microplastics, plastic waste interventions
Vasilis Syrgkanis, Management Science and Engineering
Topics of interest: causal machine learning, heterogeneous treatment effects, experimental design, observational data analysis, social vulnerability to natural hazards, measuring impact of resilience interventions on socioeconomic, agricultural, health outcomes, use of genAI for data augmentation and representation