Luksic Visiting Scholars

Fields of interest
Immigration Policy, Labor Market Integration, Operation of Bureaucratic Institutions

January to May, 2026

Mayra Feddersen is an Associate Professor of Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile. She earned her Ph.D. in 2017 from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she specialized in socio-legal studies and the governance of migration. Her research sits at the intersection of immigration policy, labor market integration, and the operation of legal and bureaucratic institutions, with a strong emphasis on South-South migration. 

She is a principal researcher at the MIGRA Millennium Nucleus (ANID-MILENIO-NCS2022-051), an interdisciplinary research center focused on the governance of migration in South...

Fields of interest
Environmental Chemistry, Public Health, Legacy and Emerging Contaminants

December 2025 to March 2026

I was born in Quito, Ecuador, and I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry within the Faculty of Science at the University of Chile. I earned my B.Sc. in Chemistry from San Francisco University in Quito, and completed my Ph.D. in Chemistry at Oregon State University, where I developed novel analytical approaches for processing environmental samples from highly polluted sites in the United States. My first postdoctoral training took place at the Aquatic Contaminants Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada in Burlington, Ontario. I then pursued a second postdoctoral...