International firms sharing production networks lobby together to secure favorable trade conditions.

John David Minnich seeks to understand how trade policies fueled China’s rise and continue to determine geopolitical winners and losers.

Mary Ellen Zurko pioneered user-centered security in the 1990s. Now she’s using those insights to help the nation thwart influence operations.

Hailing from a small town in Italy, Matteo Bucci is determined to address some of the unknowns plaguing fundamental science.

With over 200 published papers, multiple books, and countless media appearances, Emanuel’s 41 years at MIT have been marked by influential research into hurricane formation and climate change outreach.

Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 is an aspiring physician-physicist working to unlock the secrets of thermodynamics in biology and medicine.

Graduate student Sarah Cen explores the interplay between humans and artificial intelligence systems, to help build accountability and trust.

PhD student Paige Bollen finds urban street networks that encourage encounters among strangers link to lower ethnic tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.

After four decades at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Deputy Director Martin Greenwald embodies a brief history of fusion at MIT.

From nuclear proliferation to climate change, Richard K. Lester taps research talent to map a path toward a sustainable planet.