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  • Mehrnoosh Tahani

    Mehrnoosh Tahani

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics

    BioMehrnoosh Tahani currently holds a Banting fellowship (sponsored by the government of Canada) hosted at Stanford University and a KIPAC fellowship. She was a research associate (Covington fellow) with the National Research Council Canada at the Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory from Sep 2019 to Sep 2022. She received her PhD in 2019 from the University of Calgary.

    Her research interests include magnetic fields, molecular clouds, star formation, Faraday rotation, dust polarization, interstellar medium, radio astronomy, magnetohydrodynamic simulations, the 3D shape of magnetic fields of star-forming clouds, and novel techniques for probing interstellar magnetic fields.

    Mehrnoosh has held teaching positions as a sessional instructor, guest lecturer, and graduate teaching assistant, and has received teaching awards. Her current service roles include co-organizing the Open Cultural Astronomy Forum seminars (https://openculturalastronomyforum.github.io/).

    Personal website: https://mehrnooshtahani.github.io/

    Publication list: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/public-libraries/3whtBFLQRRW_e_qRFf9Z-g

  • Ariel Yingqi Tang

    Ariel Yingqi Tang

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science

    BioAriel Yingqi Tang's research is broadly concerned with the interactions between culture and nature in the history of political thought and contemporary political theory. Her ongoing projects investigate the realization of nature by means of culture via education, the limits of culture’s claim over nature, as well as the dichotomy between the two categories.

    Ariel’s dissertation-based book manuscript, “Bildung and the Anthropological Foundation of Politics”, reconstructs the entangled history of the Enlightenment and the idea of Bildung, the foundational principle of the modern research university. Tracing the genealogies of key notions underlying modern educational institutions, including aesthetic education, academic freedom, and the global curriculum in the European context and beyond, the book seeks to resuscitate the humanistic strand of Enlightenment political thought and prompts us to reconsider the promise of liberal education in modern academies.

    Besides research, Ariel is committed to translation both as a scholarly activity and a vehicle for self-understanding. Her book-length translation has appeared with the Commercial Press in Shanghai. She also maintains research and teaching interests in the history of knowledge, philosophy and literature, and environmental humanities.

  • Jonathan Tidor

    Jonathan Tidor

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Mathematics

    BioJonathan Tidor is a Stanford Science Fellow in the Department of Mathematics. His faculty host is Jacob Fox. Previously he received his PhD from MIT, advised by Yufei Zhao.