King Center Faculty Affiliates Available as Mentors for Postdoctoral Fellows in AY2025–26
The following King Center Faculty Affiliates have agreed to mentor the center’s Postdoctoral Fellows in AY2025–26. 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.
Alfredo Artiles, Graduate School of Education
Topics of interest: inclusive education or disability intersections with other identity markers (e.g., language, social class, gender) in the Global South
Eran Bendavid, Department of Medicine and Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: population health impacts of policies and catastrophic events on those living in lower income countries; the health effects of large climate events such as tropical cyclones and heat waves, or armed conflicts, and of large political shifts; applying data science and causal inference skills in the areas of climate-health or politics-health
Jade Benjamin-Chung, Epidemiology & Population Health, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: child growth, diarrheal disease/gastrointestinal infections, malaria, and climate and health
Patricia Bromley, Graduate School of Education and Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: the role of education in sustainable development (especially cross-national and longitudinal work about the emergence and effects of different kinds of education system reforms), the role of nonprofits and civil society actors in sustainable development (especially if linked to education or sustainability), and the dynamics of environmental obstructionism (i.e. when, where, and how actors are seeking to undermine sustainability).
Emma Brunskill, Computer Science
Topics of interest: education, AI, machine learning, poverty, mental 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 etc.) as well as mitigation (e.g. including education interventions and energy transitions); 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.
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 and innovation-related topics in emerging economy contexts, e-commerce
Marcel Fafchamps, Economics, Freeman Spogli Institute
Topics of interest: economic development, market institutions, social networks, behavioral economics
Philip Fisher, Graduate School of Education
Topics of interest: Early childhood development with a focal interest in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, South Africa, or Singapore
Pascal Geldsetzer, Primary Care and Population Health, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: the use of machine learning in satellite imagery and other publicly accessible geotagged data sources to monitor health and health service coverage indicators
Dan Iancu, Operations and Information Technology, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Topics of interest: poverty alleviation in global supply chains, tropical deforestation and child labor in food systems and commodity supply chains, using data analytics and AI to improve access to goods and services in developing economies
Rishee Jain, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Topics of interest: in-situ and redevelopment of informal settlements, combating heat stress, vernacular architecture and design for sustainability and economic development, urban sustainability
Saumitra Jha, Political Economy, Graduate School of Business
Topics of interest: conflict and polarization, financial and economic solutions to the political economy challenges of development, corruption, mitigating climate change, nonviolent protests, historical political economy
Desiree LaBeaud, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: global child health, climate change impacts on infectious diseases, vector-borne disease epidemiology, arbovirology, community climate resilience, circular economies of waste
Guilherme Lichand, Graduate School of Education
Topics of interest: education in low- or middle-income countries
Nathan Lo, Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: infectious disease epidemiology and modeling, policy-oriented public health modeling, neglected global infectious diseases (parasitic worm infections and typhoid fever), vaccination, predictive modeling
David Lobell, Earth Systems Science, Doerr School of Sustainability
Topics of interest: using novel data streams to study development and/or food security
Ivana Maric, Department of Pediatrics (Neonatology), School of Medicine
Topics of interest: developing machine learning and AI models for early prediction of adverse outcomes of pregnancy including preterm birth, preeclampsia, small-for-gestational age; machine learning analysis of pregnancy and neonatal outcomes from omics and electronic health records data, development of low-cost, point of care diagnostic tools that are applicable worldwide and especially in low-resource settings
Grant Miller, Department of Health Policy, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: global health and economic development, economic demography, human rights (and in particular, human trafficking)
Erin Mordecai, Department of Biology
Topics of interest: environmental drivers of infectious diseases, primarily those that disproportionately affect those in poverty, including malaria, dengue, and leishmaniasis; effects of climate change and land use change on these diseases; ecological levers for health
Christine Ngaruiya, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine
Topics of interest: addressing global disparities in non-communicable disease (NCD) outcomes, primarily in Africa; NCDs (e.g. hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cancer, mental health) or NCD risk factors (e.g. tobacco, alcohol), focusing on health equity in Africa; translation of public health interventions to policy and community-engaged projects
Alessandra Voena, Department of Economics
Topics of interest: gender, women’s rights, and the economics of the family in developing countries