Tejas S. Athni

Tejas Athni is an undergraduate student at Stanford University, originally from Macon, Georgia.

Currently, he is a student researcher in the Mordecai Lab (Stanford), where he investigates mosquito-borne diseases using ecological modeling methods, and the Benjamin-Chung Lab (Stanford), where he investigates the impact of climate change on health using computational epidemiology techniques.

Tejas has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals such as Ecology Letters and Developmental Cell. He is a recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship, the Coca-Cola Scholarship, the Neuroscience Research Prize from the American Academy of Neurology, and the American Statistical Association Award from Intel International Science & Engineering Fair. He has presented his research at public speaking venues such as TEDxPeachtree.

Previously, Tejas was a member of the Rohatgi Lab (Stanford), where he helped to elucidate a new biochemical mechanism regulating heart development, and the Joshee Lab (Fort Valley), where he investigated a plant leaf extract’s ability to inhibit glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) brain cancer, helped to identify the reproductive barriers of two medicinal plants threatened under climate change, and co-instructed research outreach programs sponsored by the United States Department of Agriculture.