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Jill Kries
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychology
BioI am a postdoc at the Stanford Psychology Department and Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, working with Prof. Laura Gwilliams. My work is situated in the field of cognitive neuroscience, where I study how speech and language are implemented in the brain. How does our brain make sense of the sounds that we're hearing? What happens in the brain while we speak? These are questions that I address in my research. I approach them using natural language paradigms, neurophysiology, computational methods and cognitive tests, in healthy adults as well as in people with diverse language phenotypes, such as at different time points of the lifespan (development and aging) or people with language disorders (for example aphasia, dyslexia, epilepsy). Characterizing speech processing in these populations helps (1) understanding the life stage or disorder better and (2) identifying crucial mechanisms involved in language processing in the neurotypical brain. My research contributes to both theoretical understanding and practical applications, exploring the potential for developing diagnostic and therapeutic tools. The neural recording techniques I am mainly focusing on to achieve this are scalp EEG, intracranial EEG, and OPM-MEG.
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Paul Lendway
Postdoctoral Scholar, Political Science
BioI am a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford University, specializing in American politics and political economy. In May 2025, I graduated with a Ph.D. in Political Science (with departmental distinction) from Yale University. In 2026, I was selected to receive two awards from the American Political Science Association: the Distinguished Junior Scholar Award in Political Psychology and the Wildavsky Award for Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics. My research is published or accepted in the American Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, American Politics Research, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Environmental Politics, Research & Politics, and the Yale Journal of International Affairs. Additionally, my co-authored research is conditionally accepted at the Journal of Politics.
The norms and rules that comprise American democracy are eroding. Why? What are the consequences of this trend? And what can be done to address this issue? My research program aims to address these questions. One stream of my research investigates how various forms of political communication (i.e., sermon rhetoric, populist appeals, etc.) shape political preferences. Another strand of my research probes the role of information (i.e., information about social movements, inequality, AI, etc.) in structuring public opinion and policy preferences. A final line of my research explores solutions to address the pressures of populism and mass polarization. This includes a project that tests Americans' willingness to compromise on a series of multi-dimensional policy tradeoffs (i.e., a conservative immigration policy and a liberal abortion policy, etc.). -
Kacper Jan Lepionka
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Classics
BioKacper is a Fulbright Junior Fellow at Stanford University and a PhD student at the University of Warsaw, where he graduated in History and South Asian Studies. Through the Erasmus+ exchange programme he also studied at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Freie Universität Berlin, and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His research focuses on the history and literature of ancient Greece, particularly the Archaic period, and ancient South Asia, from the beginnings of Buddhism to the end of the Gupta Empire. He is also increasingly interested in evidence of Greek presence in ancient Central and South Asia.
His research compares the “implied audience” of the Homeric poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, with that of the great Sanskrit epics, particularly the Mahabharata and, occasionally, the Ramayana. He is especially interested in how these texts engage with the social and cultural realities of their time. His research aims to deepen our understanding of poetic craft in both epic traditions while offering new insights into their historical contexts. -
Katerina Levinson
Postdoctoral Scholar, Iberian & Latin American Cultures
BioKaterina Levinson is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures at Stanford. She received her BA in Spanish and Great Texts (Baylor University), and a Masters in Spanish literature (University of Oxford). She completed her D.Phil from the University of Oxford in Medieval and Modern Languages (Spanish), which draws from research she conducted in Spain. Her doctoral thesis is entitled, "Iconographic Strength: Female Agency through Immaculist Devotion in Calderón’s Marian Autos Sacramentales." Her doctoral research elucidates early modern feminism through a historical, philosophical, and textual framework. Through analysis of the iconographic association of women with Mary's warrior prowess in the conquest of evil, her thesis argues that Calderón complicates notions of gendered virtue by applying virtues to women that were traditionally understood to be reserved for men. She previously held appointments as a Lecturer in ILAC at Stanford and as Stipendiary Lecturer of Medieval Spanish at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
Her current research investigates the promotion of female authority in colonial drama and poetry. Drawing on the intersection of religion, visual art, and literature, she examines how Marian narratives in the Americas functioned as a vehicle for elevating women within the colonial sphere, revealing the ways in which devotional discourse became a site of female agency and cultural negotiation. Her primary research interests lie in early modern Hispanic drama and poetry, Mariology, moral philosophy and literature, women and gender, early modern sensory perception. -
Jiaxuan Li
Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics
BioJiaxuan Li is a Brinson Prize Fellow at Stanford University’s Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC). He is an observational astrophysicist studying dwarf galaxies, dark matter, and galaxy formation in the nearby universe, using deep imaging, large sky surveys, numerical simulations, and statistical methods. He leads the ELVES-Dwarf survey, which is building a statistical census of satellite systems around dwarf galaxies in the Local Volume. Jiaxuan received his Ph.D. in Astrophysical Sciences from Princeton University in 2026, where he worked with Jenny Greene, and his B.S. in Astrophysics from Peking University.
