Stanford University
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Laura Heath-Stout
Postdoctoral Scholar, Archaeology
BioI am an intersectional feminist archaeologist and activist. I use qualitative and quantitative social science methods to study the demographics and knowledge production practices of archaeologists. I am currently starting a new community-driven project about the history of institutions for people with disabilities in Massachusetts.
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Alex Hedgpeth
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth System Science
BioAlexandra Hedgpeth is a biogeochemist whose research explores how soil carbon cycling in peatlands responds to environmental change. Her work focuses on understanding the mechanisms that regulate carbon storage and greenhouse gas production in both tropical and boreal wetlands, with a particular emphasis on the vulnerability of deep, ancient carbon to modern surface inputs and hydrologic shifts.
Through her Ph.D. research at the University of California, Los Angeles, Alex has developed and applied novel isotopic and geochemical approaches—including implementing radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analyses, and high-resolution molecular characterization—to trace the sources and fates of carbon in peat soils. Her fieldwork spans a range of ecosystems, from ombrotrophic bogs in the Arctic to saturated tropical peat domes in Central America. This comparative framework allows her to identify unifying controls on carbon preservation and loss across climate zones.
Alex's research integrates field measurements, laboratory experiments, and synthesis of global datasets. She is a key contributor to multi-institutional efforts to model peatland carbon cycling under climate change scenarios, including DOE- and NSF-supported initiatives. Her work helps clarify the role of peatlands as both long-term carbon sinks and potential sources of atmospheric CO₂ and CH₄ under future disturbance.
In addition to her scientific contributions, Alex is committed to collaborative, interdisciplinary research and has worked closely with partners at national laboratories, the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, and international data synthesis networks. She is especially interested in questions with high uncertainty and high relevance to climate feedbacks—such as thresholds in biogeochemical function and the persistence of deep soil carbon under hydrologic change. -
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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Chris Heitzig
Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology
BioChris Heitzig is a New Map of Life Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health. An economist by training, his research develops models to examine healthy aging across the life course, with a particular emphasis on identifying causal pathways and key points of policy intervention to improve well-being in later life. A central focus of his work is the socioeconomic impact of undiagnosed metabolic disorders—how these conditions manifest, the costs of leaving them untreated, and the potential for interventions to improve detection and outcomes. His research combines insights from economics and public health with machine learning methods for causal inference.
Before joining Stanford, Chris served in research roles at the Brookings Institution and the World Bank. At Brookings, he managed a $1.5 million research grant investigating how technological change is reshaping employment in Africa. At the World Bank, he designed randomized controlled trials to measure the causal effects of health and employment programs and served in an operational role as the day-to-day lead for a $20 million job transition program. Chris holds a PhD in Economics from the Institute of Development Studies, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford, and a BA in Economics from Saint John’s University. -
Wendy Herbst
Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
BioNeuroscience Postdoc in Kang Shen Lab, Department of Biology
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Ixel Hernandez-Castro
Postdoctoral Scholar, Epidemiology
BioEnvironmental epidemiologist focused on understanding how cumulative environmental exposures during pregnancy and early life shape maternal and child health across the life course. My work integrates epidemiologic methods and molecular biomarkers to uncover shared biological pathways linking chemical and social exposures to pregnancy complications and adverse cardiometabolic and neurodevelopmental outcomes, with the goal of informing early prevention strategies and supporting health.
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Marco Herrera
Postdoctoral Scholar, Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
BioNon-viral gene delivery enthusiast. Focused on optimizing non-viral delivery using LNPs to all applications as it pertains to varied nucleic acid delivery applications :).
Equally invested in developing logic-gated CAR T cells for the treatment of AML. -
Christina Hewko
Postdoctoral Scholar, Education
BioChristina Hewko is a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Accelerator for Learning’s Equity in Learning Initiative and Dr. Maisha T. Winn’s Futuring for Equity Lab. In addition, she is a Stanford PRISM Baker Fellow. As an interdisciplinary education researcher, she draws on justice-oriented frameworks, the learning sciences, and teacher education to explore co-designed learning environments. She is especially interested in the joint activity and processes that support teachers’ and community members’ learning, well-being, and development of justice-oriented teaching practices. While at Stanford she is exploring possibilities for land-based pedagogies and teacher learning about restorative and Ethnic Studies teaching practices.
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Michelle Hill
Postdoctoral Scholar, Earth and Planetary Sciences
BioMichelle's work addresses a fundamental question in exoplanet habitability: determining the minimum planetary size required to maintain an atmosphere, a critical prerequisite for life as we know it. She found that stagnant lid (no plate tectonics) planets Earth sized and below orbiting in the habitable zone (HZ) of a Sun-like star need to be ≥ 0.8 Earth radii to maintain their atmosphere past 1 billion years. As a Stanford Science Fellow, Michelle will advance her research and expand her planetary habitability models to look at how tectonic regime, initial volatile content, stellar type, tidal locking and tidal heating effect the results of whether a planet smaller than Earth can hold onto it's atmosphere. Her faculty host is Laura Schaefer, Assistant Professor in the department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.
Michelle also detects and refines the masses and orbits of exoplanets using a combination of radial velocity (RV), transit and astrometry. She is currently observing 10 known planet systems that have shown indications of additional planets in orbit in order to detect the long period outer companions. These observations have lead to the discovery of 3 planets so far.
Michelle recently completed her PhD in Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Riverside, where she developed research on exoplanet habitability while supported by the NASA FINESST award. She lead a catalog paper on the demographics of all the known planets in HZ of their star where she found evidence of the sub-Saturn valley in the HZ. During this time she was also a member of the TESS-Keck Survey (TKS) team that conducted RV followup of TESS Objects of Interest (TOIs) and she lead the discovery paper of TOI-1386 b and c.
Michelle completed her post bachelor honours in astrophysics at University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Here Michelle worked on the occurrence rates of giant exoplanets in the habitable zone of their star and found that while giant planets are less likely to be found in the habitable zone than terrestrial planets, if each giant planet is host to more than one moon then exomoons could be more numerous than terrestrial planets in the habitable zone of their star. This work has direct implications for the fraction of stars in the galaxy that may host habitable terrestrial worlds.
Prior to this Michelle completed her bachelors in physics at University of New England, Australia where she attended San Francisco State University during her year abroad. Here she contributed to a study of the Kepler habitable zone planets where she found that the distribution of planets within the habitable zone closely mirrored the distribution of all known planets. This discovery had major implications for the opportunities of statistical analysis of this relatively small group of habitable zone planets.
Michelle loves flying! She was a commercial pilot before returning to school to study physics. She currently holds an Australian ATPL with plans to (one day!) convert this to an FAA APT. -
Rory Hills
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pathology
BioI work at the intersection of protein engineering, immunology, and translational medicine. My research focuses on building generalizable molecular tools to better measure and manipulate complex human disease. At Stanford, I am developing modular antibody platforms that enable high-resolution, spatial analysis of cancer and immune systems in intact tissue. I previously trained at Oxford and Cambridge, where I worked on next-generation vaccine platforms with collaborators across academia and industry.
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Anh Tuan Hoang
Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science and Engineering
BioAnh Tuan Hoang is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where he is working with Prof. Eric Pop and Prof. Andrew Mannix. Hoang received his Ph.D. (2022) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Yonsei University and his M.S. (2016) in Bionano Engineering from Hanyang University, supported by the BK21+ Fellowship. Before that, he earned his B.S. degree (2014) in Chemical Engineering from Hanoi University of Science and Technology. Hoang's research interests span various fields, including colorimetric sensors, chemical analysis, displays, flexible and wearable devices, crystallography, and semiconductor physics. During his time at Stanford, he focused primarily on the wafer-scale synthesis and characterization of 2D semiconductors.
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Suleiman Hodali
Postdoctoral Scholar, Comparative Literature
BioSuleiman Hodali received a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA. He is a 2025-27 Postdoctoral Scholar in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, and was previously a 2025-26 UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Riverside.
His research and teaching are situated at the intersections of several different fields, including eighteenth and nineteenth century studies, British Romanticism, translation theory, modern Arabic literature and culture, literary and critical theory, the history of ideas, colonial and postcolonial theory and criticism.
Recent and forthcoming writings appear in such publications as Studies in Romanticism, South Atlantic Quarterly, Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, and Ebb Magazine.
He is presently completing his first book project, titled, New Jerusalems, Modern Crusades: Holy Lands in the Imaginative Geography of Empire. -
Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman
Instructor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsClinical research to benefit underserved populations.
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Florian Hoffmann, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Hematology
BioFlorian is a postdoctoral researcher in Dr. Ami Bhatt's laboratory at Stanford University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry working in Dr. Sam Sternberg's group at Columbia University where he studied atypical CRISPR systems in prokaryotes, in search of molecular tools for programmable gene editing and gene regulation. His studies elucidate the mechanisms of a novel RNA-guided transposition system, the evolutionary ancestors of the gene editing enzymes Cas9 and Cas12, and an unprecedented Cas12f enzyme that creates custom de novo transcription start sites without requiring promoter elements. Florian is fascinated by the vast untapped resources of novel gene functions encoded in bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages). He is an inventor on multiple patents related to his doctoral work. During his postdoctoral work at Stanford, he aims to discover novel paradigms of bacteria-virus interactions and how these shape the human gut microbiome, and human health. To investigate these systems, he harnesses interdisciplinary approaches, combining computational gene discovery with experimental techniques in Molecular Biology, Genetics and Biochemistry.
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Bernd Hofmann
Postdoctoral Scholar, Electrical Engineering
BioBernd Hofmann received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences, Augsburg, Germany, in 2015, and the M.Sc. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany, in 2017 and 2024, respectively.
From Jan. 2025 to Feb. 2026, he was a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Southern California, CA. Since Mar. 2026 he is a postdoctoral scholar with the Stanford University. His current research interests include computational electromagnetics, in particular, high-order accurate integral equation methods, and antenna near-field measurement techniques. -
Robert Holland
Postdoctoral Scholar, Radiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research focuses on developing self-supervised methods for aiding image-based clinical decision making and accelerating the discovery of new, prognostic biomarkers for disease. I am now advancing these applications by developing foundation models that integrate longitudinal, multimodal medical data from population-scale cohorts.
