New Faculty
Academic Year 2024-2025
NYU Abu Dhabi leadership and faculty are researchers, scholars, and artists of extraordinary distinction within and beyond their disciplines, and at the same time exceptional teachers, dedicated to supporting and challenging their students and to transforming them into intellectual colleagues. In addition to a growing cohort of full-time faculty, the University also draws talent from across NYU’s global network and hosts visiting faculty from outstanding universities around the world.
Today NYU Abu Dhabi has a faculty of more than 300 experts who are drawn to the University by the quality and passion of our students, by a very favorable research environment, and, as importantly, by the institution’s resolve to contribute significantly to the region and to shape a better world through education and research.
Meet the New Faculty by Academic Unit
- Academic Enrichment
- Arts & Humanities
- Engineering
- Science
- Social Science
- Stern
Hayfa AbdulJaber
Lecturer in the Academic Enrichment Program
Hayfa Abdul Jaber is a specialist in the History of the Middle East, focusing on the influence of religion on the development of communities and societies. A graduate of Harvard Divinity School, she has been teaching at Zayed University and NYU Abu Dhabi for the past 11 years. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Abdul Jaber now calls the UAE her home. Deeply socially and politically conscious, she is engaged in a wide range of global causes. Her academic interests revolve around the human experience in all its societal dimensions. Outside of her work, Abdul Jaber enjoys reading both for pleasure and intellectual growth, and she is passionate about traveling, particularly to explore cultures, cuisines, history, and nature.
Master in Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, USA
Previously: Instructor, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates
Susan Marie Ossman
Professor of Movements, Spaces and Cultural Practices
Susan Ossman trained as an anthropologist, artist, and historian who has researched and worked in North Africa, Europe, North America, and the Middle East. She is known for her creative research design and pioneering associations of art and scholarship, which have led her to propose critical new perspectives on media, mobility, aesthetics, globalization, gender, environment, and politics. She has led numerous international collective programs, notably The Moving Matters Traveling Workshop (MMTW), a collective of migrant artists and scholars that explores questions of migration with diverse publics in sites that range from public plazas to museums like the Hermitage-Amsterdam and tourist sites like the Berlin Wall Memorial.
Ossman writes about her path as an artist-scholar in her latest book, Shifting Worlds, Shaping Fieldwork, a Memoir of Anthropology and Art (Routledge 2021). Her previous books include Picturing Casablanca, Portraits of Power in a Modern City (California 1994), Three Faces of Beauty, Casablanca, Paris, Cairo ( Duke 2002), and Moving Matters, Paths of Serial Migration (Stanford 2013). She has exhibited and performed her work in galleries, museums, and public spaces in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Romania, Tunisia, the UK, and the USA.
PhD in Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, United States of America
Previously: Visiting Professor of Movements and Places, Movement and Cultural Practices, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Nathalie Handal
Professor of Literature and Creative Writing
Nathalie Handal, described as a “contemporary Orpheus,” has lived on four continents and authored 10 award-winning books translated into over 15 languages, including Life in a Country Album and The Republics. She won the Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing and the Arab American Book Award. Handal edited two bestselling anthologies and contributed to over 20 theatrical productions. Her writings have appeared in Vanity Fair, Guernica, The Guardian, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Irish Times. She received awards from the PEN Foundation, Lannan Foundation, and Fondazione di Venezia, among others, and was featured at the United Nations for her literary contributions.
Handal promotes international literature through translation and research. She edited The Poetry of Arab Women, winner of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Book Award, and co-edited Language for a New Century. She has taught and lectured globally, including at Columbia University, La Sorbonne, Yale-NUS, Ca’ Foscari University, and Universitat Leipzig.
MFA in Creative Writing, Bennington College, United States
Previously: Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature and Creative Writing, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Gregory Pardlo is an esteemed poet and author, holding an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University-Camden, where he managed his grandfather's jazz club in Pennsauken, NJ. He earned an MFA in Poetry from NYU as a New York Times Fellow and an MFA in Nonfiction from Columbia University as a Teaching Fellow.
Pardlo's acclaimed works include Digest, winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Totem, recipient of the 2007 American Poetry Review / Honickman Prize. He translated Niels Lyngsø’s Pencil of Rays and Spiked Mace from Danish. His writings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Best American Poetry, among others. Pardlo has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and more. He serves as Poetry Editor of Virginia Quarterly Review and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice at Rutgers University-Camden. His memoir in essays, Air Traffic, was published by Knopf in 2018.
MPhil in English, City University of New York, United States of America
Previously: Visiting Associate Professor of Practice in Literature and Creative Writing, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Terri Geis is an art historian, independent curator, and museum educator. She is a specialist on women artists affiliated with Surrealism and the intersections between Surrealism and the Americas. Past projects include In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States (Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with Ilene Susan Fort and Tere Arcq) and “‘My Goddesses and My Monsters’: Maria Martins and Surrealism in the 1940s,” in Debates on Surrealism in Latin America: Vivisimo Muerto (Getty Research Institute). Geis’s work has also investigated Surrealism’s connections with Afro-Caribbean art and culture, with essays including “Great Impulses and New Paths: VVV, Surrealism, and the Black Atlantic” (Revue Miranda, Université Toulouse, 2017).
Other publications include an essay for the retrospective exhibition Leonora Carrington: Magical Tales (Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, 2018), and multiple essays for The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). With Manthia Diawara, Geis has been awarded the 2021 senior fellowship through the Dedalus Foundation for a book project on the surrealist Ted Joans.PhD in Art History and Theory, University of Essex, Colchester, England
Previously: Visiting Associate Arts Professor, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Ghazi Faisal Al-Mulaifi, is an applied ethnomusicologist. He is also a Venice Biennale artist, composer, Khaleeji-jazz musician, and ensemble leader.
His research interests include Kuwaiti pearl diving music, the music of the Indian Ocean civilizations' trade routes, global jazz, and heritage production.
His current musical efforts include performing with his ensemble Boom.Diwan where he and traditional Kuwaiti pearl diving musicians merge Kuwaiti bahri (sea) rhythms with global jazz traditions for the purpose of creating a new Kuwaiti music and engaging in a global musical dialog.
PhD in Ethnomusicology, New York University, United States of America
Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor of Music, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Ouided Bouchamaoui
Professor of Practice in Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Ouided Bouchamaoui, from Tunisia, has been appointed Professor of Practice of Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution. Renowned for her expertise in international business, community engagement, negotiation, crisis management, and women empowerment, Bouchamaoui made history in 2011 as the first woman elected President of UTICA, the Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade, and Handicrafts.
As a key member of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet, she was instrumental in the Quartet's Nobel Peace Prize win in 2015 for aiding Tunisia's democratic transition. Subsequently, Bouchamaoui became a global Peace Emissary, advocating for national dialog and sharing Tunisia's democratic journey. Her speeches highlight the importance of dialog and mediation in reshaping political discourse for collective welfare.
In addition to her peace efforts, Bouchamaoui broke new ground as the first woman president of the Tunisian Union of Industry, Commerce, and Handicrafts, where she played a crucial role in fostering investment and mediating labor disputes. Her career also includes leadership positions in various organizations, underlining her broad business and conflict resolution expertise.
Master in Public Administration, Harvard Kennedy School, USA
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Arts Professor of Literature
Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in Zanzibar and is now best known as a novelist. His fourth novel, Paradise, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994 and he was on the judging panel for the Man Booker Prize in 2016. In 2021 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for ‘his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.’
His main academic interest is in postcolonial writing and in discourses associated with colonialism, especially as they relate to Africa, the Caribbean, and India. He has edited two volumes of Essays on African Writing, has published articles on a number of contemporary postcolonial writers, including Naipaul, Rushdie, and Zoe Wicomb. He is the editor of A Companion to Salman Rushdie (Cambridge University Press 2007).
Abdulrazak is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Memory of Departure, Pilgrims Way, Dottie, Paradise, Admiring Silence, By The Sea, Desertion, The Last Gift, and Gravel Heart. His latest book, Afterlives is published by Bloomsbury.
Research interests primarily revolve around literature, colonialism, postcolonialism, and the effects of displacement and migration.
PhD in English and American Literature, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
Previously: Emeritus Professor of English and Postcolonial Literatures, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
Tina Sherwell works across art practice, art history, and curating. Her art practice focuses on landscapes of Palestine, exploring questions of representations of scarred landscapes through mixed media, while her written work focuses on the representation of place and identity in relation to questions of homeland, belonging, loss, and exile in the work of Palestinian and Arab artists.
She served as the Head of the Contemporary Visual Art Program at Birzeit University (2017-2021), contributing to the development of the Faculty of Art, Music, and Design. She was the director of Birzeit University Museum (2017-2018) and The International Academy of Art, Palestine (2007-2012 and 2013-2017). Previously, she led the Fine Art Program at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton (2005-2007). Sherwell has worked with the Tate Online on digital archives and won the Alexandria Biennale prize in 2001 for her map series of Palestine.
Her research interests span various historical periods of the Arab world, including the anti-colonial struggle, nationalism, and globalization, and how these contexts shape art production, reception, and circulation. Sherwell is also deeply invested in visual cultural theory, particularly the significance of images in contemporary society.
PhD in Communication and Image Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, England
Previously: Visiting Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Robert Rowe received degrees in music history and theory (BM Wisconsin 1976), composition (MA Iowa 1978), and music and cognition (PhD MIT 1991). From 1978 to 1987 he lived and worked in Europe, associated with the Institute of Sonology in Utrecht, the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, the ASKO Ensemble of Amsterdam, and with IRCAM in Paris, where he developed control-level software for the 4X machine. In 1990 his composition "Flood Gate" won first prize in the “live electroacoustic” category of the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition. In 1991 he became the first composer to complete the PhD in Music and Cognition at the MIT Media Laboratory.
Rowe served as Associate Dean of Research and Doctoral Affairs of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development and is currently Professor of Music Technology in the Department of Music and Performing Arts Professions at NYU, a core member of the Music & Audio Research Laboratory (MARL). His music is performed globally and is available on labels such as Urlicht, Innova, and Harmonia Mundi. His book/CD-ROM projects Interactive Music Systems (1993) and Machine Musicianship (2001) are published by MIT Press.
PhD in Music & Cognition, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States of America
Affiliated from: Professor of Music Technology, New York University, United States of America
Xiaobo Shui is a senior language lecturer of Chinese. She received a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Fuyang University (2009), and an MA in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language from East Chinese Normal University (2012). Before joining NYU, she worked as a Chinese instructor in the University of Virginia's Shanghai Summer Program, the US Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program, and as an adjunct Chinese teacher at the Alliance for Global Education.
Xiaobo's research interests include Chinese literature, teaching Chinese through film and other media, community-engaged learning, and immersion programs in the Chinese language.
MA in Teaching Chinese Language as a Second Language
East China Normal University in Shanghai, ChinaCurrently: Senior Language Lecturer of Chinese, NYU Shanghai, China
Gunja SenGupta is a visiting professor at NYU Abu Dhabi, on leave from Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her current research and teaching interests lie in slavery and freedom in the 19th-century Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds; US Civil War and Reconstruction within transnational frames of reference; African American history; women’s history; Afro-Asian interactions in the US; race, gender, poverty, and social welfare; and Black Atlantic history on film. SenGupta's most recent work, Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire, co-authored with Awam Amkpa (University of California Press, 2023), won the 2024 Bentley Book Prize for “outstanding contributions” to the field of World History awarded by the World History Association (WHA).
Her current book project on Afro-Asian interactions in 19th and early 20th centuries US, explores the ways in which African America figured into Asian immigrant struggles for reinvention, renewal, and rights.
PhD in History, Tulane University, United States of America
Visiting from: Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, United States of America
Saqer Almarri
Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies and Literature and Creative Writing
Saqer A. Almarri holds a PhD in Translation Studies from Binghamton University – State University of New York, which he completed in 2019. His academic background focuses on the intersection of language, gender, and Islamic studies. Almarri's research interests center on the depictions and narratives of gender-ambiguous subjects in Arabic and Islamic written traditions. His work began with an investigation of the khuntha (intersex individuals) in Islamic jurisprudence and its translations across scholarly languages. This research has since expanded to explore these narratives, depictions, and conceptualizations in pre-modern Arabic scholarship and literature. Prior to his current position, Almarri was a research fellow in New York University Abu Dhabi's Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World. This fellowship provided him with the opportunity to further develop his research and contribute to the field of Arabic and Islamic studies.
PhD in Translation Studies, Binghamton University - State University of New York, United States of America
Previously: Humanities Research Fellow, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Noura Al Obeidli is a visiting assistant professor of Gender Studies and Media Studies in the Division of Arts and Humanities within the Interactive Media Program at New York University Abu Dhabi. Through her research work as an emerging ethnographer and academic professor, she observes the journalistic practices and newsroom norms to highlight specific themes including gender dynamics, tribal patriarchalism, and the media culture in the Emirates.
Prior to joining academia, she worked as a PR professional for ten years, in which she developed promotional marketing plans, created crisis communications policies, and managed stakeholder relationships. Through her work and interests in gender equality and feminism, she has published numerous news features about empowered Emirati women in male-dominated sectors such as aviation and engineering, lectured at undergraduate level on gender politics, organized campaigns to raise awareness on women’s health and welfare, and received professional internships on news reporting at Al Rai News Centre in Kuwait and The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in England.
PhD of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, London, England
Previously: Humanities Research Fellow, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Vikram Divecha, a Beirut-born, Mumbai-raised artist and educator based in Dubai, holds an MFA in Visual Art from Columbia University and participated in the Whitney Museum's Independent Study program. He has taught at the American University of Sharjah and has extensive experience in the cultural and media sectors.
Divecha's practice often reveals invisible structures, raising questions about agency, ethics, and value by challenging artistic production. His projects include Beej (2017), which explores farming potential among Sharjah's municipal gardeners, and Train to Rouen (2017), which delays a train to question our relationship with time and the railway industry. In Warehouse Project (2016), Divecha bartered exhibition space to re-contextualize the flow of goods. Veedu (2016-) examines Gulf architecture's influence in Kerala. His film Dohrana (2021) explores Urdu poetry and choreography with Sharjah's gardeners. Divecha's curatorial debut, 184 Nails (2022), unpacks Hassan Sharif's semi-system works in a dynamic exhibition.
MFA in Visual Art, Columbia University, United States of America
Previously: Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Marwa Koheji is a visiting assistant professor of Humanities, in the Division of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. Her research combines historical and ethnographic methods to explore energy infrastructures in Bahrain and the broader Gulf region and their socio-political implications.
She was trained in cultural anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Thermal (Dis)Comfort in Bahrain: How Air-Conditioning Changed Everything. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, National Geographic, the Energy Poverty Program in Southern Africa (EPPSA), and NYUAD.
She also has a professional background in the heritage and cultural industry, working with the Bahrain Authority for Culture and Antiquities on different national and World Heritage projects. More recently, she has participated in Bahrain's National Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale (2023).
PhD in Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States of America
Previously: Humanities Research Fellow, New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Faustin Linyekula Ngoy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice of Theatre, Artist in Residence
Faustin is a storyteller known for his work as a dancer and choreographer. He conveys his narratives through writing, theater, dance, and imagery. After eight years abroad, he returned to the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2001 to be close to the stories of his homeland. This return led to the creation of Studios Kabako, not just an artistic company but a refuge for artists from the Congo and beyond. Studios Kabako supports artists from training to production and touring across various disciplines, including dance, theater, music, and cinema.
Faustin believes that being an artist in the DR Congo means being a citizen at the heart of the community. His work has been showcased globally in venues such as MoMA, Tate Modern, and Festival d’Avignon. He has received numerous awards, including the 2007 Principal Award from the Prince Claus Fund and the 2019 Tällberg/Eliasson Global Leadership Prize. Currently, he is an associate artist at Théâtre National de Chaillot in Paris.Currently: Founder of Studios Kabako - Faustin Linyekula Dance Company, Democratic Republic of Congo
Elisabetta Cherchi researches the demand modeling of consumer behavior, with particular reference to data collection, behavioral background of how individuals make decisions and in exploring new ways to elicit and model the complexity of individual behavior especially for emerging problems such as understanding what drives sustainable transport behavior and how it can be promoted.
Her recent work includes researching electrical vehicles such as combining substitution and diffusion models to predict the electric vehicles market, the effect of social conformity and direct experience on the adoption of electric vehicles, the impact of habit/inertia in mode choice, accounting for the Theory of Planned Behaviour in departure time choice, the role of objective and perceived constraints in departure time choice, and the effect of awareness about stress from traffic in the choice to park and ride.
She is co-editor in chief of Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practise and past associate editor of Transportation, as well as a member of the editorial board of Transport Policy, Journal of Choice Modelling, and Transportation Letter, and past member of the editorial board of Transportation Research Part B. She is the past chair, and past secretary and treasurer of the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research (IATBR). She is a member of the ADB10 TRB Committee on Travel Behavior and Value and a past member of the ADB40 TRB Committee on Transportation Demand Forecasting and ADB50 on Transportation Planning Applications.
Her research work has been published in journals such as Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Transportation, Transportation, the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, and Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.PhD in Transport Techniques and Economy, University of Palermo, Italy
Previously: Professor of Transport, Newcastle University, UK
Mohamed Moustafa is an Associate Professor in Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He received his MS and PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2010 an 2014, respectively. He also obtained a Certificate in Engineering and Business for Sustainability from UC Berkeley in 2014. Moustafa has been with the Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty at the University of Nevada, Reno since 2015, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of California.
Different research thrusts collectively provide the pillars of Moustafa’s research vision for a Future Generation of Resilient Infrastructure Design, or Future-GRID, technology hub. The emerging technology thrusts build on about 15 years of experience in the general area of structural engineering and specific areas of mechanics and design of reinforced concrete structures, multi-scale experimental testing, performance-based design for hazard mitigation, advanced monitoring techniques, and finite element and computational modeling.PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, USA
Previously: Visiting Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Fares J. Abu-Dakka received a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Birzeit University, Palestine (2003), and advanced degrees (DEA and PhD) in robotics motion planning from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain (2006, 2011), in addition to MSc in Biomedical Engineering from UPV (2015).
Abu-Dakka's postdoctoral journey began at the Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia, in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he was a Visiting Professor at Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain, followed by a postdoctoral role at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) from 2016 to 2019. He was a research fellow at Aalto University (2019-2022) before joining the Technical University of Munich as a Senior Scientist in 2022, where he led the Robot Learning group at MIRMI.
Currently, he is a lecturer and researcher at Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain. His research spans control theory, differential geometry, and machine learning, with a focus on improving robot manipulation performance and safety. He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and IEEE Transactions on Robotics (T-RO).
PhD in Robotics Motion Planning, Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), Spain
Previously: Lecturer and Researcher, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain
Sandra Siby is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at NYUAD. She obtained her PhD (Computer Science) from EPFL, her MS (Electrical Engineering) from ETH Zurich, and her BEng (Electrical Engineering) from the National University of Singapore.
Silby's research interests lie in the fields of security and privacy. Her research goal is to provide individuals with better control over their privacy and protection from digital threats. She wants to work towards a future where digital services are inherently designed with user privacy and security at the forefront. Her current areas of focus are security and privacy mechanisms for the web/IoT/other emerging technologies, and deployment of trusted and private machine learning on edge devices.
Prior to NYUAD, Silby was a postdoctoral research associate at Imperial College London. Sandra also spent a few years as a research engineer at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, and as a technology analyst at J.P. Morgan.
PhD in Computer Science, EPFL, Switzerland
Previously: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College London, UK
Hazım Kemal Ekenel is a professor at ITU's Department of Computer Engineering, where he leads the Smart Interaction and Machine Intelligence Technologies (SiMiT) Lab. With over two decades of experience in computer vision and machine learning, his work focuses on developing intelligent systems to improve social interactions and assistive technologies, particularly for individuals with disabilities. He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, garnering over 4,000 citations and an h-index of 35.
Ekenel's research has been supported by various international and national organizations, including the European Commission and TUBITAK. He is a strong advocate for international collaboration, having partnered with institutions like Carnegie Mellon University, HKUST, and Waseda University. His contributions have been recognized with numerous awards, including the IEEE Research Award (2019) and the European Biometric Research Award (2008).
PhD in Computer Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (TH), Germany
Visiting from: Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Fernando Quevedo
Professor of Physics
Fernando Quevedo's research mainly focuses on String Theory and its potential phenomenological and cosmological implications. Recent work includes quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, and string theory.
Quevedo received the John Wheatley Prize 2021 (awarded by the American Physical Society (APS) and has received many awards and fellowships throughout his career, as well as Distinguished Visiting Research Chair 2020-2023 from Perimeter Institute in Canada and the Spirit of Salam Award 2019 (awarded by the Abdus Salam family).
His research work has been published in journals such as the Journal of High Energy Physics, Physics Letters B, and Physics Reports.PhD in Physics, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Previously: Professor of Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington researches the consequences of adversity and economic inequality on cognitive functioning, self-regulation, and perceived control; psychological foundations of political attitudes, including egalitarianism and populist sentiment; and how ideologies such as neoliberalism shape self-construals and social relations.
Recent work includes investigating the impact of adversity and economic inequality on decision-making in health, education, and finance domains, studying the psychological underpinnings of political attitudes and their implications, and exploring the influence of neoliberal ideologies on self-construals and social relationships.
Her research work has been funded by the British Academy and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, among others, and published in journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.PhD in Psychology, Harvard University, USA
Previously: Visiting Associate Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Amandine Cornille
Associate Professor of Biology
Amandine Cornille received her first postdoctorate at the University of Paris-Sud, she then completed a second at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and then a third at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. In 2017, she joined the Quantitative Genetics and Evolution - Le Moulon laboratory as a research fellow. Since then, she has been a laureate of various programs including ATIP-Avenir and Climate & Biodiversity Initiative, and received the CNRS Paoletti Prize in 2020.
Her research combines laboratory and field experimentation , as well as population genomics to understand the consequences of climate change and the emergence of new pests on fruit trees. In 2023, she was a laureate of the Climate & Biodiversity Initiative program of the BNP Paribas Foundation. Cornille will be joining New York University Abu Dhabi as associate professor of Biology.PhD in Evolutionary Biology - Université Paris 11, France
Previously: Leader and principal investigator (PI) of the ECLECTIC group, UMR 8120 - Génétique Quantitative et Évolution – Le Moulon, CNRS, Université Paris Saclay, France.
Stefan Bode is a Visiting Professor of Psychology. He holds a PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig / University of Leipzig, Germany.
Bode's research is at the intersection of experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience. His work is focused on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying human decision-making, including questions such as when and how people change their minds, how voluntary decisions are made, and how healthy choices can be supported. He further investigates human information-seeking, and why people sometimes feel like they just "need to know." He uses a variety of methods from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience, including electroencephalography (EEG), functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), with a focus on predictive analysis techniques.
Before joining NYUAD, Stefan worked at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is a former Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow and a recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society (ACNS).PhD, Univeristy of Leipzig, Germany
Previously: Professor of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Melbourne
Nizar Demni graduated from Sorbonne University in 2007 and then moved to Bielefeld University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Collaborative Research Center. He will join NYUAD in fall 2024 as a visiting professor of Mathematics.
His research interests lie at the intersection of probability theory, geometry, and operator algebra, and are motivated by applications to integrable systems and quantum information theory. Demni wrote more than fifty research papers and two books. He also has led a project on stochastic areas arising from subRiemannian geometrical models. Alongside Benoit Collins from Kyoto University, was awarded the Chaire Jean Morlet at CIRM in 2024.PhD, Paris VI University, France
Visiting from: Associate Professor, Rennes University France
Boualem Djehiche
Visiting Professor of Mathematics
Boualem Djehiche, has a PhD in Mathematics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in April 1993. He received an Honorary Docent in Mathematical Statistics from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in January 1996.
His main research interests are in stochastic analysis and include the theory of large deviations, stochastic PDEs, stochastic control, optimization, game theory with applications in insurance mathematics, mathematical finance, and mathematical epidemiology.
He will be joining New York University Abu Dhabi as visiting professor of Mathematics for the academic year 2024-2025. Since 2001, he has been a professor of Mathematical Statistics at KTH Royal Institute of Technology.PhD in Mathematics, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Visiting from: Professor of Mathematical Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Eliseo Ferrante received an MSc degree from Politecnico di Milano and the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2007 in Computer Science and AI. He received his PhD in Applied Sciences from Université Libre de Bruxelles in 2013, with a thesis in swarm robotics and statistical physics.
He works in interdisciplinary swarm robotics research at the interface with statistical physics and evolutionary biology. He uses self-organized and machine-learning models to develop control and coordination algorithms for real robots, operating in environments without human infrastructure. Ferrante has over 80 publications in different fields, including robotics, physics, and computer science.
Ferrante joins New York University Abu Dhabi as visiting professor in 2024. He previously held senior positions in the Autonomous Robotics Research Center at Technology Innovation Institute, Abu Dhabi. He is a part-time assistant professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Previously, he has worked in universities in Europe and the UAE including KU Leuven, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, and Middlesex University.PhD in Applied Sciences from Université Librede Bruxelles, Belgium
Visiting from: Assistant Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Angela Maitner is a visiting professor of Psychology. She completed her BA at Eckerd College, before completing an MA and PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
Maitner's research investigates the impact of culture and social identity on emotion, behavior, and cognition, and how emotion and cognition function differently in different social contexts. Her work looks within, between, and across national landscapes, thus she maintains research collaborations around the globe.
Maitner is a professor of Psychology at the American University of Sharjah, where she has worked since 2009. She received a bridge-building award from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology for an event showcasing social psychological work being conducted in the Arab world.
PhD in Social Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Visiting from: Professor of Psychology, University of Sharjah, UAE
Alessandro Portaluri is a professor of analysis at the University of Turin. He earned his degree in Mathematics with honors from the University of Pisa in July 1999, and later completed his PhD at the University of Genoa in 2004.
Professor Portaluri’s research interests lie in index theory, dynamical systems, variational methods, and nonlinear analysis. He has authored and co-authored numerous scientific publications in these areas, many of which are available as preprints on platforms like arXiv. His notable works include research on linear instability of periodic orbits in Lagrangian systems, bifurcations in Newtonian n-body problems, and the Morse index in celestial mechanics.
Portaluri's academic career includes positions at the University of Milano-Bicocca, University of Salento, and University of Turin, where he became a full professor in 2022. He will join NYUAD as visiting professor of Mathematics.PhD in Mathematics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Visiting from: Professor of Mathematics, University of Turin, Italy
Dimitrios Thilikos Touloupas
Visiting Professor of Computer Science
Dimítrios M. Thilikós Touloupas received his PhD from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics of the University of Patras in 1996. His research includes results in several fields of Theoretical Computer Science and Discrete Mathematics with particular contributions in Parameterized Computation and Graph Theory. His teaching has been focused on the Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science.
He taught many graduate and undergraduate courses at universities or research centers in Canada, Spain, France, Belgium, Greece, and Norway. He gave courses on Complexity Theory, Recursion Theory, Automata Theory, Algorithms, Combinatorics, Graph Theory, and Programming. In 2015 he received the EATCS Nerode Prize for his contribution to Parameterized Computation. Professor Dimitrios Thilikos Touloupas has been Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique) since 2012.PhD in Computer Engineering and Informatics, Patras University, Greece
Visiting from: Research Director at CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique), Laboratoire d’Informatique, de Robotique et de Microelectronique de Montpellier (LIRMM), Montpellier, France.
Yassir Dinar is an associate professor of Mathematics at Sultan Qaboos University. He received his PhD in Geometry from the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Italy.
Dinar's research interests lie primarily in the areas of differential geometry and mathematical physics. His recent work has explored the connections between Dubrovin-Frobenius manifolds, W-algebras, and integrable systems. He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of Geometry and Physics, Letters in Mathematical Physics, and Advances in Mathematics.
Throughout his career, Dinar has been recognized for his scholarly achievements. He was awarded the Young Scientists National Award in Basic Sciences Technology and Innovation by the African Union (AU) and Third World Academy of Science (TWAS) in 2012. He has also been invited to give talks at prestigious institutions and conferences around the world. He is an Arab Fund Associate at The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).PhD in Geometry, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Italy
Visiting from: Associate Professor of Mathematics at Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Arslan Munir is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), an adjunct associate professor at Kansas State University (KSU), and a visiting associate professor at New York University Abu Dhabi. Awarded the University Outstanding Scholar distinction in 2024, he joined FAU the same year. Previously, he was a tenured associate professor at KSU and an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.
He completed his postdoctoral research at Rice University and received his MASc from the University of British Columbia and PhD from the University of Florida.
His research interests include embedded systems, AI, computer architecture, and quantum computing. Munir has published over 100 peer-reviewed articles, authored two books, and holds three US patents. Recognized among the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University, he serves as an editor for multiple journals and is a Senior Member of IEEE.PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, USA
Previously: Associate Professor of Computer Science, Kansas State University, USA
Reem Mahmoud is a visiting assistant professor of Computer Science at NYU Abu Dhabi. She earned her PhD in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University and her MSc in Mathematics. She also holds a BSc in Mathematics from the American University of Sharjah.
Her research interests are in structural graph theory, discrete math, and graph coloring. Her recent work focuses on graph coloring reconfiguration problems.PhD in Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Previously: Graduate Research Assistant, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Berkay Özcan
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Berkay Özcan's research includes the intersection of family processes (divorce, marriage, fertility) and child and economic outcomes (savings, labor supply, type) to understand social stratification. He also engages in interdisciplinary research spanning demography, population economics, and sociology.
His research interests are in social stratification, family processes and their impact on economic outcomes, and interdisciplinary research in demography, population economics, and sociology.
His published work has appeared in leading journals including Annual Review of Sociology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), European Journal of Population, Journal of Human Resources, Demographic Research, and European Economic Review.
Özcan's research works have also received media attention, covered in newspapers such as The New York Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, and websites like The Huffington Post.PhD in Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Previously: Associate Professor, Department of Social Policy & School of Public Policy, London School of Economics, UK
After attaining his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Bekhzod Khoshimov joined the Wisconsin Institute of Discovery at UW-Madison as a postdoctoral fellow.
His research focuses on the determinants of early-stage entrepreneurial success and the factors influencing the supply of entrepreneurs in society.
Khoshimov holds an MS in Economics from the same institution and a BSc in Applied Mathematics from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
PhD, Economics, Wisconsin School of Business, USA
Previously: Postdoctoral Fellow, Wisconsin Institute of Discovery at UW-Madison, USA
Mario Molina
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
Mario D. Molina was a postdoctoral associate in the Social Science Division at New York University Abu Dhabi from 2020. He studied the social dynamics of cooperation and social inequality, focusing on reward systems, social norms, and cultural integration, with an emphasis on the individual mechanisms that contribute to the existence of complex social structures.
He used various statistical and computational tools, including online experiments, panel data, machine learning, and natural language processing.
Before joining NYUAD, Molina completed his doctoral studies in the Department of Sociology at Cornell University. He also holds a BA in Education (2008) and a BA in Philosophy (2009) from Universidad de los Andes (Chile), as well as an MA in Sociology (2012) from Universidad Católica de Chile.PhD, Sociology, Cornell University, USA
Previously: Postdoctoral Associate, NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE
Zheng Wang was a postdoctoral researcher at CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics). She earned her PhD in Economics from the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy, under the supervision of Andrea Ichino and Sule Alan.
Her research interests lie in Applied Econometrics and Applied Microeconomics. She develops and uses causal inference tools to explore issues related to networks, peer effects, education, inequality, and gender.PhD, Economics, European University Institute, Italy
Previously: Postdoctoral researcher, Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, France
Peter Goodrich was the founding dean of the department of law, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was also the Corporation of London Professor of Law. He has written extensively in legal history and theory, law and literature, and semiotics and has authored 12 books. He is managing editor of Law and Literature and was the founding editor of Law and Critique. His most recent book is Legal Emblems and the Art of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and to this coruscating and lucifugous erudition can be added co-writing and co-producing the award-winning documentary Auf Wiedersehen: 'Til we Meet Again (Diskin Films, 2012).
PhD, Legal Discourse, University of Edinburgh, UK
Visiting from: Professor of Law and Director of the Program in Law and Humanities, Cardozo School of Law, USA
Dirk Matten
Visiting Professor of Business, Organizations and Society
Dirk Matten is a professor at the Schulich School of Business, where he holds the Hewlett Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility. He is also the founding director of Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business. In 2019-2020 he was the Gourlay Visiting Professor of Ethics in Business at Trinity College of the University of Melbourne. He is also a visiting professor at the University of London, the University of Nottingham, Copenhagen Business School, and Sabancı University in Istanbul. He has taught and done research at academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Italy, Turkey, and the USA.
Matten has published 29 books and edited volumes as well as more than 90 journal articles and book chapters, which have won numerous prestigious awards. In August 2018, his paper with Jeremy Moon on "Implicit and Explicit CSR" received the highly prestigious Academy of Management Review Paper of the Decade Award. In the same year, he was also ranked 44 in the Top 100 Corporate Social Responsibility Influence Leaders ranking (next to CEOs and CSR leaders of Unilever, Google, Apple, etc. He is the only academic scholar on the list). In 2019 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from his school as well as the York Research Leader Award.PhD, International Business, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Germany
Visiting from: Professor of Sustainability and Hewlett-Packard Chair in Corporate Social Responsibility, Schulich School of Business - York University, Canada
David M. McCourt is associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California-Davis.
His research interests center on sociological approaches to international relations, American, British, and EU foreign policy, and theory — international and social. He is the author of Britain and World Power Since 1945: Constructing a Nation’s Role in International Politics (University of Michigan Press, 2014), The New Constructivism in International Relations Theory (Bristol University Press 2022), and The End of Engagement: America's China and Russia Experts and U.S. Strategy Since 1989 (Oxford University Press, 2024).PhD, Political Science, European University Institute, Italy
Visiting from: Associate Professor, University of California-Davis, USA
Stephanie L. Mudge is an associate professor of Sociology at the University of California-Davis and series co-editor of Cambridge Studies in Historical Sociology. She specializes in the analysis of Western parties, center-left/progressive politics, economic ideologies and institutions, monetary government (central banks), and the relationship between politics and expertise. Her first book, Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism (2018), offers a century-long analysis of the American Democrats, German and Swedish Social Democrats, and British Labour Party.
She has published in the American Journal of Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology, Socio-Economic Review, Politics & Society, Economy & Society, and European Journal of Sociology. Mudge has held fellowships at MaxPo/Sciences Po (Paris), Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (UK), Max Planck Center for the Study of Societies (Germany), and European University Institute (Italy). Her awards include a UC Davis Chancellor's Fellowship and the ASA’s 2019 Barrington Moore Award..PhD, Sociology, University of California-Berkeley, USA
Visiting from: Associate Professor, University of California-Davis, USA
Luis E. Rojas is a Professor Ajudant at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he is also affiliated with the Barcelona School of Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in Florence, along with an MSc and a BSc in Economics and a BSc in Mathematics from Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia.
Before his academic roles, Luis served as an economist at the Central Bank of Colombia, contributing to the development of macroeconomic models for policy analysis. His research has since expanded to explore topics such as expectations formation, learning in macroeconomics, and the interaction between monetary policy and banking systems. One of his recent research projects is a working paper of the European Central Bank entitled ¨The Bright Side of the Doom Loop: Banks exposure and Default Incentives" where he explores the linkages between financial and sovereign risks.
Alongside his research, Luis is a dedicated educator with experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics and economic policy. He is also actively involved in academic service, reviewing for journals and organizing seminars.
PhD, Economics, European University Institute, Italy
Visiting from: Lecturer, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain
Chinny Ogunro
Visiting Assistant Professor of
Practice of Business, Organizations and SocietyChinny Ogunro's research has explored innovative business models for healthcare delivery in growth economies, particularly Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
She was selected as a Young Global Leader and Dangote Fellow by the World Economic Forum in 2020.
Her work in healthcare operations has delivered high-quality, low-cost healthcare to over 40,000 patients across West Africa and India. Her research has received over USD 700,000 in direct support from organizations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank.
Ogunro is an advisory board member at Growth Capital — the investment arm of CCHub, a Steering Committee member of the Africa Leadership Academy’s Health Network, serves on the leadership committee of MIT Solve, and is frequently a guest lecturer at top international business schools. She has previously worked at Morgan Stanley, Veralon Partners, and provided long-term consultancy for the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Health, the UN Special Envoy for Malaria, as well as multiple other development and partner organizations.PhD in Health Management, Harvard Business School, USA
Visiting from: The Africa Center, Chief Operating Officer, USA
Cristina Buarque de Hollanda is a research fellow and adjunct associate professor of Political Science at NYUAD and associate professor of Political Science at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Her research focuses on the interplay between Human Rights, Transitional Justice, and how societies produce, negotiate, and dispute their collective memories of past authoritarian regimes, with a recent emphasis on Truth and Reconciliation Commissions and amnesty laws in the Global South. She approaches these themes using different methodologies, including comparative politics, extensive interviews with past and present state actors, stakeholders, and activists, archival research, and international fieldwork (South Africa, East Timor, Argentina, Northern Ireland), beyond extensive fieldwork in her home country of Brazil.
Her research has been variously funded by the Research Foundation of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), the CAPES Foundation (Brazil), and the Ford Foundation.
She received her MA and PhD degrees in Political Science from the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro and her BA in Social Science from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).PhD, Political Science, University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IUPERJ), Brazil
Visiting from: Associate Professor with tenure, Institute of Social and Political Studies State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Odhrain McCarthy's research focuses on asset pricing and behavioral finance, particularly return predictability, the determinants of stock price fluctuations, and the formation of investor expectations.
Recently, he has highlighted the value of using survey data on investor beliefs to explain overall stock market fluctuations. He has also developed a forward price ratio that outperforms traditional trailing price ratios in predicting stock market returns, revealing the limitations of using GAAP earnings for company valuation. Additionally, his work shows how investor biases are linked to sentiment, indicating that these processing biases are dynamic.
His research has been featured at leading conferences such as the NBER Behavioral Finance, the WFA Macro-Finance Meeting, and the EFA Annual Meeting, including receiving the ‘WFA Brattle Group PhD Award for Outstanding Research.’ He worked in the financial industry prior to his PhD studies.Odhrain holds a PhD in Economics from New York University, an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics, and a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Trinity College Dublin.
PhD in Economics at New York University, USA
Previously: PhD candidate, New York University, USA
Ezgi Ozgumus
Assistant Professor of Management
Ezgi Ozgumus's research mainly focuses on gender, diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), social roles, stereotyping and prejudice, intersectionality theory, and social networks.
Recent research work includes advancing the understanding of overlooked drivers of gender inequities in careers and thus in organizations, how modern gender roles come to be infused into both women’s and men’s sense of self-worth and uniquely undermine women’s careers, how men’s lay beliefs about gender roles get in the way of rational decision-making around workplace family leave policies in the United States and how aspects of the context — be it the over/underrepresentation of certain identities, or social identity threat evoked by individuals’ social networks — can impede gender equity in careers and organizations.
Her research work has been published in leading psychology and management journals, including Research in Organizational Behavior, Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, and Psychology of Women Quarterly.
PhD in Organisational Behaviour, London Business School, UK
Previously: PhD candidate, London Business School, UK
Anna Szerb
Assistant Professor of Management
Anna Szerb's research interest lies in examining the relationship between a corporate purpose beyond profitability and stakeholders’ responses in terms of willingness to provide resources for the organization.
Her recent research involves working with a social franchise called Unjani Clinics in South Africa where she works on how Unjani's innovative organization design enables it to address one of the greatest societal challenges in the country, i.e., access to essential healthcare services. She is also conducting research into the evolution of innovation ecosystems within the sustainability space specifically, investigating the different roles firms can play in the solar photovoltaic industry and how it influences their survival prospects
Her research work has been published in the Journal of Organization Design and INSEAD Knowledge.
PhD in Strategic Management, INSEAD, France
Previously: PhD candidate, INSEAD, France
James Traina
Assistant Professor of Finance
James Traina applies insights from industrial organization and corporate finance to study productivity topics, such as the structural underpinnings of investment, pricing, and financing. His current research explores how firm behavior evolves with competition and technology.
His most recent paper studies the puzzling decoupling of profit rates and factor shares from stock valuations and bond yields. His main field of focus relates to Productivity, Industrial Organization and Corporate Finance
Traina was previously a research economist at the San Francisco Fed. He will be coming to Abu Dhabi in fall of 2026.PhD in Financial Economics, University of Chicago, USA
Previously: Instructional Professor, University of Chicago, USA
Cynthia Zeng
Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations and Statistics
Cynthia Zeng received second place for the Doing Good with Good OR Award (INFORMS) in 2023 and the Zetta Prize for Best Application of Artificial Intelligence in Industry, MIT MIMO Symposium, also in 2023.
Zeng's research interests include developing machine learning and optimization algorithms for climate change adaptation and sustainability and she hopes to develop technological solutions to tackle issues related to climate change.
Her research work has been featured in Weather and Forecasting, NPJ Nature Digital Medicine, and the IEEE Aerospace Conference in 2019.
PhD in Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Previously: PhD candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Anisa Shyti was Assistant Professor in the Accounting Department at IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.
Shyti’s research focuses on decision making under uncertainty in business-related topics. In particular, she investigates how overconfidence impacts individual attitudes towards exogenous and endogenous ambiguity. Through lab and field experiments, Shyti also examines ambiguity attitudes of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. She is also interested in exploring the impact of financial data quality in crowdfunding financing.
PhD, Management Sciences, HEC Paris, France
Previously: Assistant Professor in the Accounting Department, IE Business School in Madrid, Spain.
Jeff Steiner's research interests include work and well-being, the employee experience (“EX”), and mental health in organizations.
His consulting, coaching, teaching, and research interests lie at the intersection of well-being and work. He has studied, worked, volunteered, and lived internationally, galvanizing his interest in studying work and well-being across vastly different cultural contexts. He is motivated by the belief that improving the modern Employee Experience (“EX”) is imperative to foster greater well-being across societies.
Steiner's research spans individual, managerial, and organizational levels of analysis. At the individual level, his work focuses on how people think about what it means to live a good life, and how they come to view the role of their work and career in pursuing it. In addition, he studies managerial and organizational practices aimed at safeguarding and supporting employee well-being, such as initiatives concerning employee mental health.
He has published in the Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Creativity at Work.
PhD in Organizational Behaviour, Harvard Business School, USA
Previously: Adjunct Professor of Management and Organisations, NYU Stern, USA
