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Stella Ghervas

Stella Ghervas is Professor of History and the Eugen Weber Chair in Modern European History at the University of California, Los Angeles. She joined UCLA in 2023 from Newcastle University in the United Kingdom, where she served as the Chair of Russian History. She has held teaching, research, and visiting positions in Australia, France, Georgia,…

Sotiris Masmanidis

Sotiris Masmanidis is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology at UCLA. His laboratory investigates the neural circuit mechanisms underlying reinforcement learning and movement. The lab’s work spans both fundamental principles of brain function and the study of aberrant motor function in models of Parkinson’s disease.

Maria Siskaki

Maria Siskaki is an Assistant Teaching Professor in UCLA’s Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology. Siskaki completed her B.Sc. in mathematics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Siskaki earned her M.Sc. in Teaching of Mathematics and her Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining UCLA, Siskaki was a Lecturer…