Collaborative Research Projects

The Languages of Democratic Decline in India

Thomas Blom Hansen, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Jean-Thomas Martelli, Centre de Sciences Humaines, CNRS, New Delhi, India

This interdisciplinary project explores the effects of political language on democracy when it transitions to authoritarianism. Speeches by politicians, media houses and…

Improving Perioperative Care for Children Receiving Solid Organ Transplantation

Mihaela Damian, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Florence Lacaille, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Paris

Pediatric liver transplantation is a very challenging surgical procedure that saves lives for children that are born or develop severe liver disease. The pediatric liver…

AI-based Computational Modeling Tools with Applications to Psychiatric Disorders

Vinod Menon, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, Xavier Hinaut, INRIA, Bordeaux

The ability to orient attention to dynamic changes in the environment is an essential cognitive skill. Aberrations in this ability are often observed in many psychiatric and…

Mapping the Early Cape

Grant Parker, Department of Classics, Stanford University, Olivier Loiseaux, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris

This project will digitally map Le Vaillant’s journey from the account of his journey into the interior of the Cape of Good Hope (1781-83). The Voyage de M. le Vaillant dans l…

Sustainable Transitions of Global South's Socio-Ecological Systems

Eric Lambin, Department of Earth Science Systems, Stanford University, Camille Jahel, CIRAD, Montpellier

Identifying ways to reduce or reverse natural resources depletion trends while maintaining population well-being …

Gene Editing in the Treatment of SAVI Syndrome

Matthew Porteus, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University, Sébastien Viel, University of Lyon I, Lyon

SAVI (Sting Associated Vasculopathy with Onset in Infancy) is a rare and an incurable disorder, with an early age of onset. It is caused by…

Ontology of the Medieval Image

Bissera Pentcheva, Department of Art and Art History, Stanford University, Isabelle Marchesin, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris

This collaborative team-based project focuses on the meaning of images in medieval culture as defined by Scripture, theology, and science;…

Advanced Diagnostics for Astrophysical Beam-Plasma Experiments in the Laboratory

Mark Hogan, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, Sébastien Corde, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau

The interaction of highly energetic particles with plasmas plays a major role in the evolution of the universe and gives rise to many…

Population Genetics of Cancer Evolution

Noah Rosenberg, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Nicolas Alcala, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, Matthieu Foll, International Agency for Research on Cancer

Cancer develops when evolutionary forces act on mutated cells. When mutations and natural selection repeat over time, cancerous cell…

The Constitution of Individuals and Groups in the Biological Sciences: Implications of an Ecological Framework for Understanding Cancer

Deborah Gordon, Department of Biology, Stanford University, Thomas Pradeu, University of Bordeaux, Bordeaux

Recent biological and biomedical research has featured the idea that living things are not “individuals” but collectives. Gordon and…

Monitoring Therapeutic Cell Treatments Using Novel Nanoprobes

Heike Daldrup Link, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Lionel Maurizi, University of Bourgogne, Dijon

Tissue regeneration through transplantation of therapeutic cells has the potential to revolutionize modern medicine. Therapeutic cells can…

The Multiplicity Turn: Theories of Identity From Poetry to Mathematics

Marisa Galvez, Department of French and Italian, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, Stanford University, Gabriel Catren, University Paris Diderot, Paris

In the last century, major breakthroughs in our understanding of ‘identity’ have changed the way that we think about ourselves and the…

Sharing Holy Places. From the Mediterranean to the Indian Subcontinent

Anna Bigelow, Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University, Dionigi Albera, Aix-Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence

We live in an age of racial, ethnic and religious tension. Our project produces an alternative narrative by asking why people cross…

Magnetic Field Mysteries in Low-Temperature Plasmas

Mark A. Cappelli, Tsikata Sedina

Plasmas, or ionized gases, are key to many modern applications and are used, for example, in the production…

Maintaining Inclusion in the Shadow of Terrorism, Radicalization and Populism

David Laitin, Jamila Alaktif, Stéphane Callens

Terrorist events in the name of radical religious doctrines have occurred worldwide. While scholars have carefully investigated engagement in terrorism…