People

The Kavli Center comprises faculty, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff from a diverse range of departments on campus.

Center Leadership

Former Members

2024 Fellows

Name Title Affiliation Role
Ilina Bhaya-Grossman Former Graduate Fellow UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
James Evershed Former Graduate Fellow Department of Philosophy 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Chad Harper Former Graduate Fellow Department of Physics, Department of Neuroscience 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Jen Holmberg Former Graduate Fellow Department of Neuroscience, Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Leana King Former Graduate Fellow Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 2023 Cohort, 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Dorna Mohaghegh Former Graduate Fellow Berkeley Law 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Milan Mossé Former Graduate Fellow Department of Philosophy 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
P.S. Nandini Former Graduate Fellow UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Bioengineering Program 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Jenna Petersen Former Graduate Fellow Haas School of Business 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Anand Siththaranjan Former Graduate Fellow Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Center for Human-Compatible AI, Berkeley AI Research 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Kaylene Caswell Stocking Former Graduate Fellow Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Sophia Tomatz Former Graduate Fellow Department of Plant & Microbial Biology 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Martijn van der Meer Former Visiting Graduate Student Department of Medical Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine & Department of History; Erasmus University Rotterdam 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student, Former Visiting Scholar

2023 Fellows

Name Title Affiliation Role
Julia Brown Affiliated Faculty Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University, Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public, UC San Francisco Humanities & Social Sciences in the School of Medicine 2023 Cohort, Affiliate, Alumni, Faculty, Former Postdoc
Juliana Chase Project Analyst & Coordinator Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Fellow, Former Graduate Student, Former Staff
Georgina Curto Former Visiting Scholar Technology Ethics Center, University of Notre Dame 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Visiting Scholar
Nicholas Karavolias Former Graduate, then Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Plant & Microbial Biology, Innovative Genomics Institute 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Leana King Former Graduate Fellow Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute 2023 Cohort, 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Michal Masny Former Postdoctoral Fellow Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Postdoc
José Manuel Muñoz Ortega Former Postdoctoral Fellow Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Postdoc
Matthew Norstad Former Graduate Fellow School of Public Health 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student
Narayan Sankaran Affiliated Faculty University of San Francisco, Department of Neuroscience, Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public 2023 Cohort, Affiliate, Alumni, Faculty, Former Postdoc
Arik Shams Former Postdoctoral Fellow Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Postdoc

Past Visiting Scholars and Students

Name Title Affiliation Role
Georgina Curto Former Visiting Scholar Technology Ethics Center, University of Notre Dame 2023 Cohort, Alumni, Former Visiting Scholar
Martijn van der Meer Former Visiting Graduate Student Department of Medical Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine & Department of History; Erasmus University Rotterdam 2024 Cohort, Alumni, Former Graduate Student, Former Visiting Scholar