Date September 2, 2025
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38 accomplished scholars join Brown faculty as 2025-26 academic year begins

Representing a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, the faculty members join the Brown community to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — As the 2025-26 academic year begins at Brown University and more than 3,200 new undergraduate, graduate and medical students arrive on campus, the University also welcomes a group of 38 new scholars to the Brown faculty. 

With research and teaching expertise spanning topics from neuroscience to Hispanic studies to biostatistics, Brown’s newest faculty members represent a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives and academic interests.

“Our faculty are central to Brown’s research and educational mission,” said Brown Provost Francis J. Doyle III. “These new members of our community are vital to the continued growth of Brown as a preeminent research university that is dedicated to the education of future generations. I am excited that they have chosen to join our university.”

The cohort of new faculty members, which includes tenured and tenure-track, teaching, and research faculty, will serve across the University’s academic departments, divisions and schools.

The full listing of new faculty, with links to their profiles, follows below.

Humanities and Social Sciences

Kim Fernandes

Kim Fernandes
Assistant Professor of Anthropology

 

Joshua Freeman

Joshua Freeman
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature

 

González-Ferrer, Maria

María González-Ferrer
Assistant Teaching Professor of Hispanic Studies

 

Saloni Gupta

Saloni Gupta
Jonathan M. Nelson Assistant Professor of Education and Entrepreneurship

 

Anthony Medrano

Anthony Medrano 
Assistant Professor of History

 

Jana Moriskova

Jana Mokrišová
Assistant Professor of Archaeology of the Ancient Greek World

 

Felipe Valencia

Felipe Valencia
Dean's Assistant Professor of Economics and Political Economy

 

Derron Wallace
Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Education Policy

 

Jackie Wang

Jackie Wang 
Assistant Professor of Literary Arts

 

Life and Physical Sciences

Serena Booth

Serena Booth
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

 

Matthew Coley-O’Rourke

Matthew Coley-O’Rourke
Assistant Professor of Chemistry

 

Will Crichton

Will Crichton
Assistant Professor of Computer Science

 

Nicole Looper

Nicole Looper
Associate Professor of Mathematics

 

Leenoy Meshulam

Leenoy Meshulam
June and Howard Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Physics, Neuroscience, and Brain Science

 

Frederike Petzschner

Frederike Petzschner 
Assistant Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences

 

Adriana Schulz

Adriana Schulz
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Biology and Medicine

Vivian Cheung

Vivian Cheung
William Rogers Provost's Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry

 

Chirila Anda

Anda Chirila
Manning Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

 

Sergej Djuranovic

Sergej Djuranovic
Mencoff Family RNA Research Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry

 

Weihan Li

Weihan Li
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry

 

Divya Murthy

Divya Murthy
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research)

 

Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic

Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

 

Jessica Tingle

Jessica Tingle
Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology

 

 

Engineering

Leo Kozachkov

Leo Kozachkov 
Howard E. Zimmerman Assistant Professor of Engineering and Brain Science

 

Feng Lin

Feng Lin
Associate Professor of Engineering

 

Mehdi Saligane

Mehdi Saligane 
Assistant Professor of Engineering

 

Isabella Stuopis

Isabella Stuopis 
Assistant Teaching Professor of Engineering

 

Trisha Tian

Trisha Tian
Assistant Teaching Professor of Engineering

 

Joy Zeng

Joy Zeng
Assistant Professor of Engineering

Public Health

Michael Barnett

Michael Barnett
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice

 

Yu-Han Chiu

Yu-Han Chiu 
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology

 

Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou

Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou 
Professor of Epidemiology and Environment and Society 

 

Peter Lipman

Peter Lipman
Associate Professor of the Practice of Biostatistics

 

Jeffrey Marr

Jeffrey Marr
Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Research Scholar 

 

Jennifer Sacheck

Jennifer Sacheck
Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences 

 

Saloner, Brendan

Brendan Saloner
Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice 

 

Veroniki, Argie

Argie Veroniki
Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Research Scholar 

 

Olivier Wouters

Olivier Wouters
Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice