Eli Sanchez grew up in Smithville, a small town roughly midway between Houston and Austin Texas. He received his bachelor’s degree in Chemistry with a minor in Physics from the University of Texas at Dallas. He then worked for a year at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he used computational models to study the effects of radiation exposure on the human body, before beginning his PhD in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department at MIT. His doctoral research assessed the implications of hypersonic boost-glide weapons for great power strategic stability. He is now a postdoctoral Nuclear Security Fellow at the Security Studies Program at MIT where he studies the potential for emerging technologies to increase the vulnerability of ballistic missile submarines.
Contact: es122530@mit.edu | Office: NE49-3182D
Samuel Seitz is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow in the MIT Security Studies Program. His research interests include status-seeking in international relations, nuclear strategy, military procurement policy, alliance politics, and the ways in which they intersect. His work has been published in Contemporary Security Policy, The Washington Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, and The US-China Perception Monitor. Sam has also worked as a Summer Associate and Adjunct Researcher at the RAND Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from The University of Oxford as well as an M.A. in Security Studies and a B.S.F.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University.
Contact: seitz415@mit.edu | Office: NE49-3182C
Lauren Sukin is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She is a Centre Affiliate at LSE's Phelan United States Centre, an Affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a Fellow at Charles University’s Peace Research Center Prague (PRCP), and a Nonresident Scholar in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Lauren's research examines issues of international security, focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and alliance politics. Her book project argues that credible nuclear guarantees can create fears of reliance on nuclear allies, leading to support within client states for stronger and more independent military capabilities. Lauren's broader research agenda explores other dynamics of international security, including crisis politics, cybersecurity, and security challenges on the Korean Peninsula. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Department of Political Science at Stanford University as well as B.A.s in Political Science and Literary Arts from Brown University
Contact: lsukin@mit.edu | Office: NE49-3182CA