The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of 14 faculty members, including one full professor and 13 assistant professors.

Professor

A. Carla Staver, in ecology and evolutionary biology, specializes in plant and ecosystem ecology and paleoecology. Her appointment is effective July 1.

Staver comes to Princeton from Yale University, where she has taught since 2014, most recently as a professor. She served as associate director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies from 2021 to 2024 in addition to roles on various steering, advisory, search, and planning committees. She was also the interim director of graduate studies in 2024.

Her research on plant ecology in savanna ecosystems focuses on developing theoretical models to study the patterns and effects of wildfires in grassland biomes, as well as their influence on carbon emissions. Staver has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation, including as a co-principal investigator with frequent collaborator Simon Levin, the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton.

She is a recipient of the George Mercer Award from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) and the Jasper Loftus-Hills Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Naturalists. She was also named an ESA Early Career Fellow from 2015 to 2020.

Staver is a member of the Ecological Society of America, the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation and the American Geophysical Union. She previously served as associate editor of the Journal of Ecology from 2018 to 2022 and on the advisory board of the Global PaleoFire Working Group. She is also on the steering committee of the Socio-Ecological Observatory for Studying African Woodlands.

She has authored more than 80 papers in journals including Nature, Ecology Letters, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has presented at numerous conferences and seminars.

She has testified as an expert at hearings for the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources and has created exhibits on grass and fire for the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Staver earned a Ph.D. from Princeton, an M.Sc. from the University of Cape Town and a B.A. from Columbia University.

Assistant professor

Olaoluwatoni Alimi, in religion and the University Center for Human Values, joins the faculty in July. Alimi specializes in religion, ethics and politics and comes to Princeton from Cornell University, where he has been an assistant professor since 2024. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton, an M.A. from Yale Divinity School and an A.B. from Princeton.

John Sturm Becko, in economics, joins the faculty in July. Becko, who specializes in finance, holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and an A.B. from Harvard University.

Guido Bosco, in mathematics, joins the faculty in September. Bosco specializes in arithmetic geometry and analytic geometry and holds a Ph.D. from Sorbonne Université, an M.Sc. from the Université Paris-Saclay and the University of Pisa, and a B.Sc. from the University of Pisa.

Tei Carpenter, in architecture, joins the faculty in July. Carpenter, who specializes in architecture design, holds an M.Arch. from Princeton and a B.A. from Brown University. She was an assistant professor at the University of Toronto from 2019 to 2021.

Jorge Garza-Vargas, in mathematics, joins the faculty in September. Garza-Vargas specializes in algorithms, discrete mathematics, functional analysis and probability. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley and a B.Sc. from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Magnus Irie, in economics, joins the faculty in July. Irie, who specializes in finance, holds a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, an M.A. from the University of California-Los Angeles and a B.Sc. from Stockholm University.

Zoe Meng Jiang, in East Asian studies and comparative literature, joins the faculty in July 2026. Jiang specializes in East Asian nonwestern media archaeologies, digital sovereignty, media literacy and epistemic justice. She has a Ph.D. from New York University, an M.A. from the City University of New York and a B.A. from Sun Yat-sen University.

Anubhav Mukherjee, in mathematics, joins the faculty in July. Mukherjee specializes in low-dimensional topology and contact and symplectic geometry and gauge-theory. He has a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology and an M.A. and B.A. from the Indian Statistical Institute. He has been an instructor at Princeton since 2023.

Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez, in philosophy, joins the faculty in June. Ramírez specializes in philosophy of physics, metaphysics of science and philosophy of science and comes to Princeton from Purdue University, where he has been an assistant professor since 2022. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S. and B.A. from the Universidad de los Andes.

Rohil Prasad, in mathematics, joins the faculty in September. Prasad specializes in dynamical systems and holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and an A.M. and A.B. from Harvard University.

Fatima Quraishi, in art and archaeology, joins the faculty in September. Quraishi specializes in pre-1850 South Asian art history and comes to Princeton from the University of California-Riverside, where she has been an assistant professor since 2018. She holds a Ph.D. from The Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, an M.A. from the University of Victoria and an A.B. from Brown University.

Jonathan Tidor, in mathematics, joins the faculty in September. Tidor, who specializes in external combinatorics, has a Ph.D. and B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Lidia Tripiccione, in Slavic languages and literatures, joins the faculty in July. Tripiccione specializes in the history of Russian literature and holds a Ph.D. from Princeton, an M.A. from the Università di Bologna and a B.A. from the Università di Udine. She has been a lecturer at Princeton since 2025.