I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Philosophy of Open Science research group in the School of Social Sciences and Technology at the Technical University of Munich, a European Research Council-funded initiative that researches fair and equitable practices across diverse scientific communities. I am also a member of the
Strategic Collaboration for Interdisciplinary Research on Open Science in the SSH (SCIROS).

Check out Concept Cartography, an interactive site I co-created mapping the politics of knowledge, connecting concepts like epistemic injustice, disadvantage, interlacing, and well-ordered science across feminist epistemology, Indigenous studies, and political philosophy.

I completed my Ph.D. at the University of California, Irvine, in 2022, specializing in social and applied epistemology. I explore how structural bias and epistemic norms shape patient experience, scientific judgment, and the ethics of knowing.

In October 2024, I legally changed my name to Rena Beatrice Alcalay. I kindly request that my full name be used when referencing my written work. Where my previous name, “Rena Goldstein,” may have appeared, please now refer to me as “Rena Alcalay.”