2023 Cohort

Those fellows selected from the 2023 application for fellowships.

Narayan Sankaran

Affiliated Faculty; Rita Allen Civic Science Fellow
University of San Francisco, Department of Neuroscience
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public

Narayan Sankaran, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of San Francisco in the Neuroscience Department where his research spans both neuroscience and neuroethics. As a neuroscientist, his research seeks a mechanistic account of how the human auditory system enables perception of complex sounds – such as music and speech. To do this, he combines computational modeling, machine learning, and human neurophysiological measurements at different spatial scales using both intracranial and scalp-based recording techniques. As a neuroethicist, his research considers the ethical and...

Arik Shams

Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public
Arik Shams, PhD, is interested in the intersections of genome editing, bioethics, and science policy. As a Kavli Ethics, Science, and the Public Fellow, Shams expanded his training further into policy and ethics, working on projects with an emphasis on CRISPR technology implementation in agriculture and energy, capacity-building to mitigate global food insecurity, and training new scientists in issues of science justice, bioethics, and social impact. Shams received a B.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi, and did two years of post-baccalaureate research at the National Institute of...