Oxford-Berkeley Summer Doctoral Program: Alumni

The Oxford Internet Institute at the University of Oxford has hosted the Summer Doctoral Programme (SDP) since 2003. 2025 marked the start of a new collaboration between Oxford and Berkeley, which will see participants alternating between the two locations every other year.

The SDP has brought together more than 500 international doctoral students since 2003, many of whom are now in tenure-track positions across the fields of information and internet studies.

2025 Summer Doctoral Program Participants, UC Berkeley

• Krishna Akhil Kumar Adavi, University of Texas at Austin
• Amina Ally, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Michelle Bartleman, University of Ottawa
• Gabrielle Beacken, University of Texas at Austin
• Gadi Buskila, Haifa University
• Charlotte Curle, Lancaster University
• Ankolika De, Penn State University
• Zihan Gao, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Gabriel Hales, Michigan State University
• Noor Hammad, Carnegie Mellon University
• Juulia Heikkinen, University of Helsinki
• Mark Hines, University of Kentucky
• Yitong Gu, Hong Kong Baptist University
• Shira Gur Arieh, Harvard University
• Luise Koch, Technical University of Munich
• Putri Limilia, The University of Sydney
• Jiaying (Lizzy) Liu, University of Texas at Austin
• Monica Marion, Indiana University
• Daniela Markazi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Muhammed Rashedul Hasan, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Nathalie Schäfer, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
• Fabiola Schwarz, Technical University of Munich
• Alyssa Smith, Northeastern University
• Natalia Stanusch, University of Amsterdam
• Emmanuel Vargas Penagos, Örebro University
• Stella Yin, Nanyang Technological University
• Mohsin Yousufi, Georgia Institute of Technology

View past SDP participants.