Stanford University
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Alyssa Rene Heinze
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioAlyssa Heinze is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford's King Center on Global Development. In Fall 2027, she will join the University of California, Davis as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. Heinze received her PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Her research sits at the intersection of the political economy of development, gender and politics, and environmental and climate politics, with a regional focus on India.
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Valeria Ramirez Castaneda
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioValeria Ramírez Castañeda is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the King Center on Global Development. Her research explores the intersection of urbanization, sustainability, and disease ecology, with a focus on Amazonian cities. She studies how urban expansion interacts with environmental change and vector-borne disease dynamics, using participatory research approaches to co-develop solutions with local communities. In addition to her ecological research, she examines the dominance of English in science and its structural consequences, working to promote more inclusive and multilingual scientific practices. Ramírez-Castañeda received her PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Lapo Santarlasci
Postdoctoral Scholar, Economics
BioI am a visiting researcher at Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), and a PhD candidate in Systems Science at IMT Lucca, with a background in Finance and FinTech. I focus on harnessing AI - particularly cutting‑edge NLP methods - to build tools for climate‑risk assessment and to study how AI diffuses through, and shapes, society. I am a part-time sailor and Red Cross ambulance operator.
