GCRI is pleased to announce the 2025 Fellowship Program. The GCRI Fellowship Program aims to highlight exceptional collaborators GCRI had the opportunity to partner with over the course of the year.
This year, we have three Fellows. One of them is collaborating with GCRI on how to improve China-West relations, with emphasis on catastrophic AI risk. The other two are collaborating with GCRI on US public views on global catastrophic risk.
Congratulations to our 2025 GCRI Fellows.
Jean Dong
Cambridge, MA
Jean Dong is a Research Fellow at the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard University and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on China-West relations, especially related to AI and catastrophic risk. She is collaborating with GCRI on these topics, with emphasis on how to improve China-West relations to reduce catastrophic risk alongside other benefits.
Charlton Yingling
Louisville
Charlton Yingling is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Louisville. He is conducting research on how the US public thinks about global catastrophic risk. This research is developing the statusquotastrophe hypothesis, in which people find that status quo conditions are in some respects catastrophic. He is collaborating with GCRI on this research and its implications for the field of global catastrophic risk and for broader American society.
Marissa Yingling
Louisville
Marissa Yingling is an Associate Professor in the Kent School of Social Work and Family Science at the University of Louisville. She is conducting research on how the US public thinks about global catastrophic risk and related topics. This research is developing the statusquotastrophe hypothesis, in which people find that status quo conditions are in some respects catastrophic. She is collaborating with GCRI on this research and its implications for the field of global catastrophic risk and for broader American society.