With training in epidemiology, health policy, and the social and behavioral sciences, Dr. Stojanovski leverages interdisciplinary and community-based methods to conduct global research to discern structural influences on LGBTQ+ and ethnic minority health across countries. Dr. Stojanovski's research examines how stigmatizing policies and norms negatively shape the health of LGBTQ+ persons.
Sönke Dangendorf is an Assistant Professor in the Department of River-Coastal Science and Engineering. Dr. Dangendorf has more than 12 years of experience researching mean and extreme sea levels, ocean tides, and storm surges and the impact on coastal flooding. He previously held positions as an “Akademischer Rat” at the University of Siegen, Germany, and as an Assistant Professor for Ocean and Earth Science at the Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. Dr.
Tatiane Santos is an assistant professor at Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She also holds a senior adjunct faculty appointment at the Colorado School of Public Health, and Adjunct Senior Fellow appointment at the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics and Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives. She is a core member of the COVID-19 Modeling Group in CO and leads the development of the CO Population Data Dashboard.
Amin Sabzehzar is an Assistant Professor at the Freeman School of Business. He joins the Freeman School from Arizona State University, where he recently received his Ph.D. in Management of Information Systems. Amin teaches business analytics, and his research focuses on topics that speak to the management of social issues, take a broad developmental view of society, and have the potential to offer practical implications for online platform design and policy.
Dr. Punshon-Smith received his Ph.D in Mathematics from University of Maryland in 2017. In 2018 he joined the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown University for 3 years as an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2021 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study as a Member for the special year on "h-Principle and Flexibility in Geometry and PDEs". He joined Tulane in the Fall 2022 as a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Mathematics department.
I am an assistant professor in the Departments of Political Science and Africana Studies at Tulane University.
Jonathan Owens, M.D. has returned home to Louisiana to join the faculty of the Tulane Department of Otolaryngology as an assistant professor. After receiving a BA from the University of Virginia and his MD from Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Owens completed his residency in Otolaryngology at the University of Colorado.
Prior to joining the Freeman School, Yumei He worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management and the University of Houston’s Bauer College of Business. Her research interest lies in leveraging advanced IT artifacts to improve market efficiency of digital platforms, focusing on topics including digital interventions, human-AI collaboration and market design of platforms. Her work has been published in Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
y long-term research interest is to study healthy blood vessel development and remodeling, and to use both microphysiological organ-on-a-chip systems as well as transgenic mouse models to understand how intercellular signals – including, those involving gap junctions and their constituent proteins (connexins, Cx) – regulate these processes.
Ben Deen is a cognitive neuroscientist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Tulane. His research uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study how we understand other people, interpret their behavior, and predict what they will do in the future. Dr. Deen received his BS in Physics and Cognitive Science from Yale University, and his PhD in Neuroscience from MIT. He conducted postdoctoral research at The Rockefeller University, supported by fellowships from the Helen Hay Whitney and Leon Levy foundations.
