People Spotlights

Senior Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Neuroscience (2015–24)

Jeffrey A. Cockburn

Science and education isn't about filling buckets, it's about lighting fires. If you bring the gasoline, HSS will hand you the match."

Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Medieval History

Patrick Morgan

Teaching humanities courses at Caltech is an incredible opportunity to teach and insist on clarity of expression, argumentation, and reasoning in the work of students whose scientific research will be at the forefront of their fields. Our work as HSS instructors has such an impact!"

PhD '25, Social Sciences

Peter Doe

After speaking with one of the students in the social sciences PhD program, I saw Caltech as a place where the faculty would invest in me as a student, rather than try to get things out of me."

Social and Decision Neuroscience Graduate Student

Sneha Reddy Aenugu

The drive to understand the nature of intelligence is what brought me to Caltech. Only with a vision of merging the disciplines of humanities, neuroscience, and AI, will we be able to build and deploy artificial intelligence in a safe and sustainable manner—and that happens to be my vision."

Richard N. Merkin Professor of Mathematical Finance

Jakša Cvitanić

We create an environment in which interdisciplinary, original research involving the social sciences and quantitative fields can thrive. It boils down to two things, which are education and research. There are not many places like Caltech where students can learn from experts from so many different fields in a natural way."

Professor of English

Kristine Haugen

The unique intellectual freedom of Caltech has inspired me to transform my research completely. I know many of my colleagues might say the same!"

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