Visiting scholars

The Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) program at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy, a unique research, education, and policy engagement center concerned with cutting-edge questions at the intersection of science, technology, policy, and society welcomes visiting scholars to join our community. While we do not have funds to support salaries, we may be able to provide office space.

The STPP community is vibrant and growing, with affiliated faculty and students from across the university. Scholars will have the opportunity to participate in the STPP activities and take advantage of other events and resources across the University of Michigan. We have particularly strong relationships with UM's Science, Technology, and Society Program, the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing, and the Michigan Institute for Data Science. Visiting Scholars will be expected to participate in a brown-bag lunch with students and may also be asked to engage in the STPP lecture series.

Visiting scholars are likely to be mid- to late-career faculty whose research focuses on the intersections between science, technology, policy, and society. We are particularly interested in scholars working on promoting equity and justice in science, technology, and related policies. Scholars could join the STPP Program for a month, or up to two years. Prospective postdoctoral fellows should contact individual STPP faculty members to identify whether there is a match or funding available.

Applicants will be evaluated for their fit with the Program's intellectual strengths and substantive research foci. Accordingly, both the research statement and the supporting letter(s) should clearly address the question of fit.

Applicants for non-stipendiary scholar positions should apply by email to [email protected]. Applicants should submit the following:

• A description of research interests and reasons for seeking affiliation with the University of Michigan STPP Program (no more than 1000 words);
• A curriculum vitae

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Visiting Scholars Fall 2026

Andreas Panagopoulos

Andreas Panagopoulos is a Professor of Economic Analysis at the Economics Department, University of Crete. He is the founder and director of TECHNIS, a research platform that connects scholars working on innovation and promotes the diffusion of ideas via webinars through an open network, where anyone can propose speakers. His research interests focus on innovation and intellectual property, with emphasis on AI, health policy and technology transfer.

At U-M Professor Panagopoulos plans to work on the latest incarnation of AI on health, digital twins (DTs). His aim, along with coauthor and STPP Faculty Director, Shobita Parthasarathy, is to understand how DTs may affect the US and EU healthcare systems in different ways, and the ensuing political and economic implications for healthcare in general.

Read more about Professor Panagopoulos.

Katerina Sideri

Dr. Katerina Sideri is a Fulbright visiting scholar working on the politics of synthetic health data (data that mimic real patient records in a privacy preserving manner). She is an associate Professor at Panteion University in Athens, Greece. Dr. Sideri’s research interests focus on bioethical dimensions of personalized medicine, patent regimes (CRISPR, digital pills), AI in health, data governance, and the ethics of innovation, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals.

Her work at U-M will be to conduct a set of interviews with FDA officials to understand the subjective choices made in the process of building a standard of credibility and she is also interested in making comparisons with the system in the EU.

Read more about Dr. Sideri.