BROWSE EXPERTS AND FELLOWS
Belfer Center researchers include Harvard faculty members, project directors and other expert staff, senior fellows and fellows. They contribute frequently to outside publications, advise government officials, participate in special commissions, brief journalists and policymakers, and share research results with specialists and the public.
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LEGEND:
Fellow
Daniel Volmar
Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy, International Security Program
Daniel Volmar is a graduate student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His general interest is in American physical science during the twentieth century and its relations to industry and government. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Wilfred Wan
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Wilfred Wan's research interests include institutional change, international institutions (particularly in security), nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, and IR theory. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.
Rebecca Ward
Stanton Nuclear Security Predoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Rebecca Ward is a Ph.D. candidate in the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests are nuclear nonproliferation analysis and optimization of safeguards resource allocation strategies.
Alex Wellerstein
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Alex Wellerstein received Ph.D. from the Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, in October 2010. His work focuses on the history of nuclear secrecy in the United States from the Manhattan Project through the War on Terror ("Knowledge and the Bomb: Nuclear Secrecy in the United States, 1939–2008").
Yvonne Yew
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Yvonne Yew is a research fellow with the International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom. A former Singapore diplomat, she has worked on regional and multilateral issues in Asia and in Europe.
Hui Zhang
Senior Research Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Hui Zhang is a Senior Research Associate in the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center. His research includes verification techniques of nuclear arms control, the control of fissile material, nuclear terrorism, China’s nuclear policy, nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation, policy of nuclear fuel cycle and reprocessing.
Yun Zhou
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Yun Zhou received her Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2006. Her current research interests include international security implications under a global nuclear expansion scenario and alternative nuclear technologies such as small reactor designs without on-site refueling for developing countries.
Jianyu Zhu
Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
ZHU Jianyu works at Center for Strategic Studies, China Academy of Engineering Physics (CSS, CAEP). He received a Ph.D. in nuclear physics from Peking University. He current research focuses on nuclear policy analysis and technological problems in the field of nuclear security and nuclear disarmament.
Graham Allison
Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Faculty Chair, Dubai Initiative
Member of the Board
Director of Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Graham Allison has for three decades been a leading analyst of U.S. national security and defense policy with a special interest in terrorism.
Tom Bielefeld
Associate, Project on Managing the Atom
Tom Bielefeld is a physicist specializing in security policy research and analysis. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in physics with the University of Bremen on "Studies in Nuclear Security: Preventing and Preparing for Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism."



