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TRiSS Postdoctoral Research Fellows

TRiSS hosts a number of postdoctoral research fellows working on a range of projects:

Current Postdoctoral Research Fellows

Clare Moriarity

Clare is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, based in TRiSS. Her current project is focused on mathematics and philosophy in the 18th century. Recent publications concentrate on the work of George Berkeley, Isaac Newton, Colin Maclaurin and Oliver Byrne. She is particularly interested in the application of mathematical methods to non-mathematical domains and reactions to/against such applications. Her research is strongly interdisciplinary and in addition to writing about mathematics and philosophy, she is interested in the use of visual arts and speculative fiction to pursue philosophical and mathematical ends. She strongly believes in public-facing research and tries to produce popular writings on her research topics whenever possible, for example in History Ireland, The Irish Times and for research archive blogs. For five years she held a Fellowship in Public Philosophy at The Forum for Philosophy. Links to her philosophical podcasts are available here: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/theforum/. Clare became a mother in 2020 and has recently been applying philosophical analysis in popular and academic writings on the ethics of the rhetoric around baby feeding. In her spare time, you will be able to find Clare knitting, swimming or doing jigsaws.

Contact: moriarcl@tcd.ie

Ivan Petrov

Ivan Petrov is a postdoctoral research fellow in Economics at Trinity College Dublin. Prior to joining TCD, Ivan completed his PhD at University College Dublin, with a focus on market failures associated with energy use, and the evaluation of policies aimed at correcting these. Topics of interest include energy and environmental economics, energy efficiency, transport, and behavioural economics.

Contact: petrovi@tcd.ie
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/ivan-petrov/home

Rizwan Asghar

Dr Rizwan Asghar is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Political Science at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis.
His field of specialisation is International Relations broadly focusing on international security, civil-military relations, conflict dynamics, and nuclear proliferation. From a methodological perspective, his interests are in quantitative approaches to causal inference, survey methods, and machine learning.

Contact: asgharr@tcd.ie
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/rizwanasghar/