Tinker Visiting Professors for AY 2026-27

September 2026 to March 2027

Ana Figueiredo (she/her) is a psychologist and holds a PhD in Social Psychology (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal). She is currently Associate Professor at the Universidad de O'Higgins (Chile) and Principal Investigator (PI) at the Millennium Institute for Authority and Social Regulation (ASOR, Chile; ANID MILENIO-ICS2025_002). In 2025, she was awarded a project to work on police–minority group interactions, focused on the experiences and perceptions of Mapuche and migrant communities, as well as youths from low socioeconomic backgrounds in Chile (2025–2029; ANID Fondecyt Regular Grant Nr. 1251411). Ana is co-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Social and...

February to June, 2027

Ernesto Pasten is a research economist at the Central Bank of Chile. He is interested in everything, within or beyond economics, but specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, and fiscal policy, and has more recently begun working on environmental policy.

Professor Pasten will teach in the winter quarter.

September to December, 2026

Alexandre Street holds an M.Sc. and a D.Sc. (PhD) in electrical engineering (emphasis in operations research) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. From 2003 to 2007, he participated in several consulting projects related to strategic bidding in the Brazilian energy auctions and market regulation at the Power System Research Consulting (PSR), Rio de Janeiro. From August 2006 to March 2007, he was a visiting researcher at the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Ciudad Real, Spain. 

At the beginning of 2008, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at PUC-Rio, where...