The Faculty Advancement team welcomes new faculty to Columbia.
Read each faculty member's mini profile to learn more about their research.
Rosalie Stoner
Classics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
As a classicist, I explore education in the ancient Roman world to better understand humanistic problems like the ethical complexities of rhetoric. I have taught at Yale and at the University of Chicago, where I earned my PhD in 2021.
Chloe Kitzinger
Slavic Languages
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
My research focuses on the novel (in both theory and practice) and the sources and limits of its power to shape human life. I have published on Russian realism and modernism, seriality, "AI" writing, and early novel theory, among other topics.
Milena Wittwer
Finance
Columbia Business School
I am a financial economist studying how frictions, regulation, and strategic interactions shape trading, asset prices, and market structure. I hold a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and previously taught finance at Boston College.
Chaoqun Dong
Mechanical Engineering
Columbia Engineering
My group develops new materials and bioelectronic devices that interface with biological tissues, aiming to advance minimally invasive, high-performance neural interfaces. Before Columbia, I was a Marie Curie and SNSF Fellow at Cambridge University.
Lisa Ho
Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I study female labor force participation, and more broadly, labor markets in developing countries. Much of my work focuses on India, and I use both field experiments and administrative data.
I did my PhD in Economics at MIT and a postdoc at Yale.
Zoey Yiyuan Zhou
Columbia Climate School
I am a green finance researcher.
My work bridges finance, climate science, and biodiversity, with a focus on how financial systems—particularly corporate finance and banking—can accelerate nature-positive, climate-resilient, and equitable outcomes.
Diptarka Hait
Chemistry
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I am a theoretical chemist. I use quantum mechanics to simulate chemistry on computers, with a focus on light-driven processes. My work ranges from purely theoretical model development to collaboration with experimentalists on practical problems.
Lily Xu
Industrial Engineering and Operations research
Columbia Engineering
I work at the intersection of AI and optimization to help practitioners make better decisions when faced with limited data, uncertainty, and complexity. My primary focus is on challenges arising in environment and biodiversity management.
Silvia Sellán
Computer Science
Columbia Engineering
I research Computer Graphics and Geometric Processing. My new lab’s vision is to find real-world problems that involve digital geometry, and solve them, choosing problems whose solution is societally beneficial.
Hugo Lhuillier
Economics
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I study how workers, firms, and cities interact to shape labor market inequalities and the aggregate economy. My work informs policies that seek to expand opportunity while fostering economic growth.
Gemma Dipoppa
Political Science
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I am a political scientist studying how modern states manage new cross-border challenges like migration, crime, and environmental degradation. Before Columbia, I was an Assistant Professor at Brown, a Postdoc at Stanford, and a PhD Student at UPenn.
Susanna Berger
Department of Art History and Archaeology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I study 16th and 17th-century art and architecture in Europe. My writings and teaching focus on the interrelations between visual culture and intellectual history. I am especially interested in how images generate, block, and delay understanding.
nyle fort
African American and African Diaspora Studies
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I am a student of the black intellectual tradition. I study how people resist oppression, build beloved community, and struggle to transform the world. I earned a B.A. from Morehouse College and Ph.D. in Religion from Princeton University.
Kacie Dragan
Health Policy and Management
Mailman School of Public Health
I study the intersection of the health system and social safety net, by evaluating the health impacts of Medicaid, housing, child welfare, and education policies. I have a PhD in Health Policy from Harvard and am a proud Columbia MPH and Barnard alum.
Austin Chadwick
Columbia Climate School
I tackle fundamental questions about the origin & evolution of river systems, as well as climate challenges in river hazard prediction & mitigation. My approach blends geologic fieldwork, satellite remote sensing, theory, & laboratory experiments.
Xueyue Zhang
Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics
Columbia Engineering
I'm a quantum physicist, investigating and utilizing the interaction between qubits and photons for quantum hardware.
The platforms include superconducting circuits and quantum defects in crystals. Ph.D. @ Caltech, postdoc @ UC Berkeley.
Minhal Baig
Film
School of the Arts
I’m a filmmaker and television writer exploring how identity, belonging, and trauma shape our lives. My work examines the emotional complexities of growing up between cultures and how trauma affects relationships and defines our sense of self.
Chujun Lin
Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
I am a psychologist studying first impressions, using naturalistic datasets, computational modeling, field experiments, and cross-cultural designs.
I obtained my PhD from Caltech (2019), postdoc from Dartmouth (2023), and led my lab at UCSD (23-25).
New Faculty Mini Profiles are a project of the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement.