Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability
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Pedro Cintra
Ph.D. Student in Environmental Social Sciences, admitted Autumn 2025
BioTrained as a physicist until my MSc, in which I worked with neutrino detection of core collapse supernovae, I recently switched fields to apply mathematical and computational models to ecological and social systems :)
On the ecological side, I like working with individual based models for cooperation and foraging strategies from an evolutionary perspective. On the social side, I am currently interested in the evolution of cultural values on groups of humans and polarization of opinions on networks of contacts. -
Cora Cliburn
Ph.D. Student in Environmental Social Sciences, admitted Autumn 2026
BioCora Cliburn (she/her) is an environmental social scientist originally from the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico. As a Ph.D. student in Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability, Cora’s work centers applied research on rural water governance and climate adaptation in the American Southwest. She holds an M.S. in Energy and Resources from UC Berkeley and a B.A.H. in Environmental Anthropology from Stanford. Cora’s career has spanned water policy advocacy and education, food security and sustainability, climate action in the arts, and over a decade as a professional dance artist. She welcomes opportunities to connect through environmental research, advocacy, and creative collaboration.
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Vittorio Colicci
Ph.D. Student in Earth and Planetary Sciences, admitted Autumn 2024
BioI am a doctoral candidate in the Earth and Planetary Surface Processes Group, where I study ancient windblown depositional systems on Earth and Mars and apply sediment transport relations to reconstruct the environmental conditions under which they formed. My research combines field-based sedimentological and stratigraphic characterization with remote sensing and laboratory techniques such as zircon microtextural analysis. Before starting my PhD, I worked on a range of aerospace engineering and physics projects, including materials development for spacecraft electrospray thrusters, nanofabrication for astrophysics instrumentation, and computational modeling for icy moon exploration.
