The JEI Board of Directors welcomes Dr. Mayank Chugh

Mayank Chugh, PhD, (he/him) is a transitioning postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is an early-career advisor at eLife Sciences Publications. He is also the former chair of the Harvard Medical Postdoc Association. Chugh is fascinated about how organisms are designed and constructed from a single cell and approaches this in the context of inner ear formation in zebrafish. During his biology postdoc, he pivoted his research direction to empirically investigate how social inequity dimensions (race, gender, citizenship, and socioeconomic status) shape STEM higher education workforce and innovation. His published research and policy recommendations on cost-of-living adjusted postdoc compensation gathered national attention. He is currently leading research on citizenship privilege and visas to facilitate global knowledge equity. Chugh aims to create unchartered bridges between social sciences and STEM disciplines to inform equitable policies and practices in academic institutions and beyond that dissolve global knowledge divides.