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  • Gina Mantica

    Assistant Director, Marketing & Communications
    Gina Mantica is the Hariri Institute’s resident storyteller. After completing a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship at The Dallas Morning News, she left her PhD program in pursuit of science communication. Now, she develops and manages the Hariri Institute’s marketing and communications strategies to ensure that the Institute’s digital presence reflects its core mission and values. […]

  • Jessica Markham-Anderson

    Doctoral Student, Wheelock
    Jessica Markham-Anderson is a doctoral student in the Educational Studies Program at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She is a trained special and elementary educator and school psychologist and centers her work on systems-level change and implementation to improve outcomes and access to high-quality instruction for all students, especially those with […]

  • Jeffrey J. Marlow

    Assistant Professor of Biology
    Dr. Jeffrey Marlow is an Assistant Professor of Biology at Boston University. He received his B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis (2007), M.Phil. from Imperial College London (2010), and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology (2016). Dr. Marlow is interested in understanding how complex microbial communities shape and are shaped by their environments, […]

  • Alan Marscher

    Professor of Astronomy, CAS
    Alan Marscher is Professor of Astronomy in the College of Arts & Sciences. Through his research, he explores high-energy astrophysics and the nature of extragalactic phenomena, including black holes and exploding stars. For more than 25 years, Professor Marscher has shaped the way non-science majors approach scientific inquiry, providing a grounding that goes galaxies beyond the […]

  • Audra Mary McMillan

    Postdoctoral Associate RISCS

  • Abraham Matta

    Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science
    Abraham Matta is Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1995. He works on the design of network protocols and architectures based on a range of computer science principles (such as inter-process communication, decomposition, and recursion), mathematical […]

  • Kate Mays

    Emerging Media Studies, COM
    Graduate Student Fellow, Emerging Media Studies, COM Kate Mays was chosen as a Hariri Graduate Fellow in June, 2017. She is a doctoral student in Emerging Media Studies at Boston University’s College of Communication, where she also received her Masters. Her dissertation research examines the effects of technological affordances on social relationships, with a specific focus […]

  • Majd Mayyasi

    Senior Research Scientist, Center for Space Physics
    Majd Mayyasi is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Space Physics. Her research interests include understanding water loss at Mars from analyzing spectral signatures of D and H, modeling the ionosphere of Mars to learn new things about its plasma environment and its response to various internal and external triggers, and characterizing sources, […]

  • Nina Mazar

    Professor, Marketing, Questrom School of Business
    Nina Mazar is a Behavioral Scientist dedicated to advancing the science and practice of behavior change. The topics of Mazar's research range from ethics to social & environmental impact. Mazar previously helped establish the World Bank’s Behavioral Insights Initiative (eMBeD). Mazar is also the co-founder of BEworks, one of the first commercial consulting companies dedicated […]

  • James McDaniel

    Associate Professor (ME, MSE)
    J. Gregory McDaniel is an associate professor in engineering. Professor McDaniel’s work integrates analytical, numerical, and experimental approaches in efforts to improve the built world and understand the natural world. Most of his research falls in the area of structural acoustics and involves interactions of vibrations and acoustics with complex structures and media. Examples of […]

  • Allison McDonald, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Computing & Data Sciences
    Allison McDonald is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences. Working at the nexus of security, privacy, and human-computer interaction (HCI), McDonald’s research emphasizes how technology impacts digital safety and exacerbates marginalization of often-overlooked groups such as refugees, political dissidents, and victims of domestic abuse. To that end, she leverages a […]

  • Joe McGuire

    Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences
    Dr. McGuire's lab studies the cognitive and neural processes that facilitate human decision making. The lab is especially interested in how decision makers navigate challenging situations that involve delay, uncertainty, or volatility, or that seem to demand self-control. Research interests: Neural representation of subjective value and economic utility; Self-control, persistence, and delay of gratification; Forming […]

  • Keith McInnes

    Research Associate Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
    Keith McInnes conducts research on access to and engagement in health care services for hard to reach, vulnerable populations. Current BU School of Public Health projects includes assessing the use of mobile technology to increase chronic disease self-management for persons experiencing homelessness. He has taught a course on the impact of health information technologies on […]

  • Thomas J. McKenna

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Science Education, Wheelock College of Education & Human Development
    Thomas “TJ” McKenna, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Science Education at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development and Associate Director of Educator Engagement and Impact at the Hariri Institute's AI and Education Initiative. He works at the nexus of policy, practice, and research in ways that deepen the understanding of how […]

  • Lindsey McLean

    Research Scientist, Wheelock College
    Lindsey McLean is a research scientist at Boston University Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She supports the work on a National Science Foundation-funded study in teacher preparation, in partnership with colleagues at University of Virginia and University of Delaware. The project focuses on preparing general education preservice teachers to work with students with […]

  • Paul McManus

    Strategy & Innovation Department, QST
    Senior Lecturer, Strategy & Innovation Department, QST Paul McManus is a senior personnel member on the SCOPE project. He brings in expertise in entrepreneurial strategy development/implementation related to the creation/operation of interdisciplinary innovation programs, platform-based startups and multi-stakeholder ecosystems (public/private partnerships) for new venture creation & sustainable development. McManus is a Senior Lecturer in the Strategy & Innovation […]

  • Patrick McNamara

    Associate Professor, Neurology
    Patrick McNamara, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Neurology Department of Neurology at the Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and the VA New England HealthCare System. Upon graduating from the Behavioral Neuroscience Program at Boston University in 1991, he trained at the Aphasia Research Center at the Boston VA Medical Center in […]

  • Pankaj Mehta

    Professor, Physics
    Pankaj Mehta is Professor of Physics with the Department of Physics. He is part of new Faculty of Computing and Data Science, the BU Microbiome Initiative, BU Bioinformatics, the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM), and the BU Biological Design Center. His research interest is in theoretical problems at the interface of statistical physics and biology. Website

  • Eugenio Menegon

    Associate Professor, Chinese History, CAS Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Eugenio Menegon is an Associate Professor of Chinese History and the Director of Undergraduate Studies at Boston University. He has been Research Fellow in Chinese Studies at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Junior and Senior Fellow at the BU Humanities Foundation, and An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University. […]

  • Rajita Menon

    Physics, CAS
    Graduate Student Fellow, Physics, College of Arts & Sciences Rajita Menon was named a Hariri Graduate Fellow in May, 2016. She is a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Physics. She uses a computational perspective to understand how physical constraints control the function of microbial communities. Her research focuses on game-theoretical modeling of nutrient exchange in […]