Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability


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  • Ryan OConnor

    Ryan OConnor

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Environmental Social Sciences

    BioRyan O’Connor is an Environmental Social Scientist and current Postdoctoral Scholar in the Environmental Social Sciences Department at Stanford University. Ryan’s research focuses broadly on understanding the Human Dimensions of Environmental Governance and how human societies interact with, learn about, and manage social-ecological systems. His research employs an innovative blend of quantitative and qualitative social-ecological methods to elevate and highlight community voices and local ecological knowledge in conservation and to investigate how communities learn about and act upon convergence crises of climate change, biodiversity loss, and social-ecological resilience. By understanding how a person's relationship to the nature-rich world, personal history with nature, and social context shape individual perceptions of the environment management, Ryan seeks to inform the co-production of sustainable governance programs. Ryan also teaches courses on research methods, human-nature interaction, the history of the oceans, and environmental governance at Stanford and has supervised undergraduates on projects ranging from computer vision machine learning models for marine mammal monitoring to expert interviews of marine protected area officials. Ryan has also been an Ethics in Society Fellow with the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford. Learn more at https://ryanoconnorresearch.com

    Prior to his work at Stanford, Ryan served as an officer in the US Navy working on international logistics policy research and development. Ryan most recently worked as an environmental policy consultant and geospatial project manager for AECOM Technical Services, helping to administer the National Flood Insurance Program, leading multi-hazard mapping, policy analysis, and legislative affairs efforts in support of disaster and climate resilience across the United States.

    Ryan earned his Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Science from the University of Virginia in 2017.

  • Carolina Olguin Jacobson

    Carolina Olguin Jacobson

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Oceans

    BioMy research focuses on socio-ecological systems within fishery cooperatives in Baja California, Mexico, exploring their resilience and adaptation strategies to climate change and COVID-19 impacts through oceanographic and ecological monitoring. Working with marine protected areas and climate refugia areas.

  • Lamprini Papargyri

    Lamprini Papargyri

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science

    BioLamprini Papargyri is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University co-advised by Professor Steve Davis and Dr. Ken Caldeira. She earned her PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of Cyprus, where she worked under the guidance of Professor Panos Papanastasiou to optimize the durability of materials used in photovoltaic systems. Her doctoral research employed advanced computational modeling using 3D finite element methods and XFEM to simulate stress, cracking, and degradation mechanisms in photovoltaic materials.

    At Stanford, Lamprini’s research lies at the intersection of climate policy, economics, and equity. Her current work explores how economies with income inequality can optimally allocate resources between income redistribution and emissions abatement. Beyond research, she has led and contributed to multi-million-euro research initiatives across Europe and remains deeply interested in the societal and ethical dimensions of emerging technologies. Broadly, she is interested in developing integrated models that inform equitable and sustainable pathways for climate mitigation and economic development.

  • Ashley Prow Fleischer

    Ashley Prow Fleischer

    Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth and Planetary Sciences

    BioI earned a PhD in Earth Science with a focus in paleoclimatology from Syracuse University, where my research focused on reconstructing past environmental change and biotic responses using microfossils and geochemical proxies. My work integrates stratigraphy, paleobiology, geochemistry, and climate modeling to better understand Earth's climate dynamics during the intervals of rapid change, like the Late Devonian and end Triassic mass extinctions.