Visiting Researchers

Shirley Sun

Shirley Sun

Shirley Sun received her PhD in Sociology from New York University and is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Honorary Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She is the author of Socio-economics of Personalized Medicine in Asia (2017, London and New York: Routledge), where she draws on extensive interview data…

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Kunal Arekar

Kunal Arekar

KUNAL AREKAR kunalarekar@ucla.edu Kunal Arekar is an evolutionary biologist who investigates the origins and underlying processes that gave rise to the biodiversity on earth. He uses genomics and ecological tools to address questions related to speciation, systematics, biogeography, hybridisation, adaptation, and conservation using non-human primates as a model system. He completed his PhD in 2022 from the Wildlife Institute of…

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William Wannyn

William Wannyn

William Wannyn is a sociologist of science, knowledge and culture who investigates the entanglements of neuroscientific knowledge and political categories in contemporary societies. His work focuses on questions related to the scientific, political and cultural co-production of classifications, generalizations and standards, and their use in public policy making. William Wannyn received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Montreal…

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