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Gabriel Ferreras Garrucho
Postdoctoral Scholar, Bioengineering
BioGabriel grew up in Seville, Spain, and earned a BA in Biochemistry and Biotechnology from the University of Seville, where he was introduced to plant molecular biology working on the interplay between flowering signalling and autophagy in Arabidopsis. He then moved to the United Kingdom to do a PhD in Plant Sciences in the University of Cambridge, in the group of Uta Paszkowski, working on the spatio-temporal regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis signalling in rice, followed by a Postdoctoral Researcher position in the same group optimising single-nuclei RNA-sequencing for the mutualism between rice and mycorrhizal fungi. In the Brophy lab, Gabriel is excited to work on the discovery and validation of cell-type-specific enhancers in sorghum using a combination of single-nuclei multi-omics, machine learning methods and high-throughput screens in protoplasts and in planta.
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Margaret S. Ferris, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Adult Neurology
Clinical Assistant Professor (By courtesy), NeurosurgeryBioDr. Ferris is a fellowship-trained neurologist and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, Division of Movement Disorders.
She diagnoses and treats a breath of movement disorders such as Parkinson’s disease and essential tremor. She recognizes the broad effects of these conditions on daily living and aims to develop personalized, comprehensive treatment plans that optimize health and quality of life.
Dr. Ferris research interests focus on access to interventional therapies for movement disorders. She has participated in investigations sponsored by the National Institutes of to evaluate advanced treatments for complications of Parkinson’s disease.
She has co-authored articles in publications such as Nature, The Neurohospitalist, and BioMed Central (BMC) Genomics. She has presented her insights about innovations in the understanding, detection, and management of movement disorders at conferences including, the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Pan American Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders Congress.
She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Movement Disorder Society.
Essential tremor patient story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV6BzyU9b3c -
Marco Ferroni
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Bioengineering-GRVR
BioComing from ETH Zurich, I will spend six months at Stanford to complete my Master’s thesis in digital chip design as part of Prof. Kwabena Boahen’s Brain in Silicon Lab.
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Nicolas Fesser
Clinical Instructor, Emergency Medicine
BioNico Fesser, MD, is a Global Emergency Medicine Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Stanford University and a Stanford Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliate with the Center for Innovation in Global Health (CIGH), Stanford's university-wide hub for global health research, education, and training. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Washington, where he received the Resident Peer Recognition Award and the UW Medical Center Martin Luther King Jr. Community Service Award. He earned his MD from the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo, where he was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha and the Gold Humanism Honor Society and received the Medical Alumni Association Award. He completed his undergraduate studies in Neurobiology, with a minor in Global Health, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Born and raised in Madrid, he moved to upstate New York at age fourteen.
Dr. Fesser's interests include global emergency care, humanitarian response, and resource mobilization, particularly within conflict-affected settings. He has worked and collaborated directly within this context with organizations such as the United Nations, the West Africa AIDS Foundation, and Partners In Health. He has also conducted public health projects and worked clinically across much of sub-Saharan Africa, including Ebola response in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), tuberculosis care in Lesotho, and HIV/AIDS work in Ghana and Tanzania, among others.
A central focus of his work is the rescue, demobilization, and reintegration of children affected by armed conflict in the eastern DRC. In 2020, he founded Fesser and Friends, a nonprofit organization that operates two child rescue and rehabilitation centers in the province of North Kivu and serves as UNICEF's referral center of choice in the region. The center in Beni serves children orphaned by armed conflict, many of them survivors of some of the country's worst mass atrocities. The center in Goma supports the long-term demobilization and reintegration of former child soldiers, many of whom were forced to commit acts of violence themselves. Both provide housing, medical care, education, vocational training, and family reunification services. To date, the organization has reunited hundreds of missing children with their families and has provided over a quarter of a million meals to children and displaced families. He also founded Beyond the Rhythm, a music-based fundraising initiative that helps support some of this work.
His fellowship training combines clinical practice with targeted coursework in tropical medicine, humanitarian operations, nonprofit leadership, and diplomacy. He is currently completing the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. His planned coursework also includes the Executive Program for Nonprofit Leaders at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) course at the University of Geneva, developed with the ICRC and WHO. In his second year, he will complete the Certificate in International Relations and Diplomacy at Sciences Po in Paris.
Dr. Fesser works at the intersection of emergency medicine, humanitarian diplomacy, and policy to improve outcomes for children and communities affected by armed conflict. Following his fellowship, he aspires to serve in senior leadership roles within humanitarian and governmental organizations. -
Wendy E Feuer
U.S. Cultural Policy Fellow, Stanford Arts Office Programs
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOral History Project Recordings and Transcripts: Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Programs 1981 and 1987 at the New York Public Library Special Collections.
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Dorien Feyaerts
Instructor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBiomedical scientist and immunologist with a strong background in fetal-maternal immunology that aims to conduct impactful translational research in women’s health to improve the health of mothers and their children.
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Chris Field
Melvin and Joan Lane Professor of Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Professor of Earth System Science, of Biology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Precourt Institute
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsResearch
My field is climate-change science, and my research emphasizes human-ecological interactions across many disciplines. Most studies include aspects of ecology, but also aspects of law, sociology, medicine, or engineering. -
Priya Fielding-Singh
Postdoctoral Scholar, SCRDP/ Heart Disease Prevention
BioI am a Sociologist and Postdoctoral Fellow in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. My research examines health, gender, and social inequality.
My primary research agenda investigates health disparities across class, race, and gender in the United States. I draw on both qualitative and quantitative methods to understand how neighborhoods, schools, and families shape our health behaviors and outcomes. My work has been published in journals such as Social Science & Medicine, Obesity, Sociological Science, and the Journal of Adolescent Health.
I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford University, a M.A. in Anthropology from the University of Bremen, and a B.S. in Education and Social Policy from Northwestern University. -
Vikram Fielding-Singh, MD, JD
Clinical Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsImproving perioperative care of patients with end stage kidney disease, using biomarkers to aid early diagnosis of acute kidney injury, and evaluating the performance of risk prediction models in perioperative medicine.
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Hannah Fields
Licensing Associate, Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
Current Role at StanfordHannah is a Licensing Associate at OTL focused on life sciences. She is a Ph.D-trained life science professional with over a decade of experience spanning academic research, early stage biotechnology startups, and translational drug development with a focus on cellular immunotherapies.
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Caroline Figueroa, MD PhD
Affiliate, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Visiting Scholar, Pediatrics - General PediatricsBioCaroline Figueroa, MD, PhD, is a visiting scholar at Stanford University. She is the 2025–26 Dutch Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice. She is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands, where she leads the Research on Inclusive Solutions and Empowerment in Digital Health (RISE) group. Her work focuses on making digital mental health solutions — such as apps and AI-chatbots — safe, effective, and accessible, particularly for adolescents, young adults, and women. Figueroa’s research on digital health equity has directly informed policy documents by global organizations such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations, and has been published in leading journals including Lancet Digital Health, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, and Human Brain Mapping.
Figueroa is a medical doctor with a PhD in the neuroscience of depression from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Oxford; she also has several years of experience in clinical psychiatry. Before joining TU Delft, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. -
Christian Figueroa
Undergraduate, History
BioChristian Figueroa is a political communications professional based in Southern California.
He is currently a senior communications aide at Derek Tran for Congress, one of the most competitive House races in the 2026 midterm elections, and previously held roles with U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and the California Democratic Party.
Aside from his day job, Christian is a passionate advocate for progressive policies in his community, serving on the executive board of the California Democratic Party. In 2024, he was one of the youngest delegates to represent California at the Democratic National Convention.
Christian studies history at Stanford University, specializing in early colonial America. He enjoys hiking, traveling, and watching documentaries in his free time.
