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Shannon Sylvie Abelson
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioI work in philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics, environmental ethics, and space environmentalism. My research focuses on best practices and practical solutions to pressing ethical and policy issues in space exploration, including space debris mitigation, equitable access to Space, and the orbital and terrestrial environmental impacts of the space industry.
I am an associate member of NANOGrav and a member of the ngEHT HPC group. -
Constantin Basica
Postdoctoral Scholar, Music
BioConstantin Basica is a Romanian composer living in the San Francisco Bay Area, whose current work focuses on symbiotic interrelations between music, video, and performers. His portfolio includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, orchestra, electronics, and video. His works have been performed in Europe, North America, and Asia by artists and ensembles such as Ensemble Dal Niente, Ensemble Liminar, ELISION Ensemble, Distractfold, Mocrep, JACK Quartet, Spektral Quartet, kallisti, RAGE Thormbones, line upon line, Retro Disco, Fresh Squeezed Opera, Séverine Ballon, Tony Arnold, Karen Bentley Pollick, and Olga Berar. Among the festivals and conferences that have featured his works are the MATA Festival (NY), Currents New Media Festival (NM), the International Week of New Music (RO), InnerSound New Arts Festival (RO), the International Festival for Video Art and Visual Music (MX), Aveiro Síntese Biennale for Electroacoustic Music (PT), Eureka! Musical Minds of California (CA), the 2017 and 2018 International Computer Music Conference (CN and KR) and the 2016 Sound and Music Computing Conference (DE). He received the ICMA Award for Best Submission from Europe at the 42nd ICMC in Shanghai (CN).
Constantin earned a DMA in Composition at Stanford University under the guidance of Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Brian Ferneyhough, Mark Applebaum, and Erik Ulman. His previous mentors were Georg Hajdu, Manfred Stahnke, Fredrik Schwenk, and Peter Michael Hamel during his MA and Erasmus Scholarship at the Hamburg University of Music and Theatre (DE), as well as Dan Dediu, Nicolae Coman, Doina Rotaru, and Bogdan Voda during his BA studies in Composition and Conducting at the National University of Music Bucharest (RO).
As an educator, Constantin has taught and conducted workshops at Stanford University, Escuela Superior de Música in Mexico City (MX), the 2016 Sound and Music Computing Summer School in Hamburg (DE), the George Enescu National College of Music and the International Center for Research and Education in Innovative and Creative Technologies (CINETic) in Bucharest (RO).He is the recipient of the 2018 Carolyn Applebaum Memorial Prize and the 2015 Chair’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Department of Music at Stanford University. -
Azucena Castro
Postdoctoral Scholar, Iberian & Latin American Cultures
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsEnvironmental Humanities (Blue Humanities, Geo-Writings, Energy Humanities), Latin American Literatures and Cultures, Cultural Studies, Art Research, Multispecies Studies, Future Studies, Ecopoetry and Ecopoetics, Humanities-led Sustainability Studies
Current collaborative research:
-Cheguhem, Mauricio; Castro, Azucena; Rosa Rivero, Sofía, eds. Edited number: “Humanidades ambientales en América Latina: encuentro entre artes, literaturas y ciencias.” In Humanidades. Revista de la Universidad de Montevideo (Forthcoming, 1 edition 2023): http://revistas.um.edu.uy/index.php/revistahumanidades/announcement
-Castro, Azucena; Acosta, Santiago; Marques, Nuno, eds., edited book: “Ecopoesía, ecopoéticas y nuevas políticas ecológicas en el poema” (in progress). -
Ting-An Lin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Philosophy
BioTing-An Lin is an Interdisciplinary Ethics Postdoctoral Fellow at the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society, with a partnership affiliation with the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
Before joining Stanford, she earned her PhD in philosophy from Rutgers University, where she also received a Graduate Certificate in women's and gender studies.
Her research interests lie at the intersection of ethics, political philosophy, and feminist philosophy, with a particular focus on how new forms of technology (such as AI) shape social structures and impose constraints on different groups of people. -
Rhiannon Neilsen
Postdoctoral Scholar, History
BioRhiannon Neilsen is a Cyber Security Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC). Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University. During her PhD, Rhiannon was a Visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (2019-2020), sponsored by the Australian Federation of Graduate Women, and a Visiting Fellow at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia (2019). In 2020 and 2021, Rhiannon was a Research Consultant for the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), University of Oxford.
During her time at CISAC, she will be working on her project, 'Algorithms for Atrocity Prevention'. Her research interests sit at the intersection of cyberspace, atrocity prevention, and normative ethics.