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Ruth Elisabeth Appel
Postdoctoral Scholar, Communication
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsRuth Appel integrates insights from computer science and political science, psychology, and economics, and uses computational and experimental methods to analyze large-scale datasets. She is particularly passionate about addressing governance and ethics challenges, preventing misinformation and election interference, and promoting wellbeing.
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Simon Beaudoin
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Political Science
BioSimon Beaudoin is a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, a PhD student in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, and a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow. His scholarship lies at the intersection of International Relations, Political Theory, and Earth System Science. Integrating insights from both social and natural sciences and applying systems thinking, his research examines the architectures of global environmental politics and synergies within socio-ecological systems.
Simon holds a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Politics and International Studies from the University of Cambridge and a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in International Studies from the University of Montreal. His masters were funded by the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the Cambridge Trust, and the Mackenzie King Scholarship. During his master’s degrees, he also received a Frontenac Fellowship to study at Science Po Paris and an Excellence Scholarship to conduct field work in Geneva. His social and academic contributions were recognized by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec’s Youth Medal.
Simon spent the last decade living, studying, and conducting research in Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. His most recent work features peer-reviewed publications on global environmental politics, biodiversity, climate, and ocean governance in the Canadian Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Multilateralism, International Negotiation, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. He is also the lead author of a forthcoming book on global biodiversity governance. -
Luca Bellodi
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioLuca Bellodi is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. His current research focuses on American political institutions, specifically the interaction between politics, bureaucracy, and populism, and its consequences for the quality of government.
In Bellodi’s primary line of research, he studies politicians’ incentives to control the behavior of bureaucratic agencies, lawmakers’ reliance on bureaucratic expertise, and the role of bureaucracy in shaping the political agenda. He introduces innovative measurement strategies that combine natural language processing techniques and machine learning to address novel questions in the study of oversight, rulemaking, and the use of information in the policymaking process.
In a related line of research, Bellodi investigates why politicians adopt populist behaviors and examines the consequences of populism for government performance and the quality of bureaucracy.
Luca Bellodi holds a PhD in political science from University College London. Before joining Stanford, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Bocconi University in Milan.
