Daphne Martschenko

Daphne Martschenko is an American academic.

Early life and education

Martschenko was born in London, to Alex, a U.S. foreign service officer of Ukrainian heritage, and Oluwatoyin, originally from Nigeria. She has three sisters and lived in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Ukraine while young. She attended Oakton High School in Vienna, Virginia, where she was a member the crew team her freshman year. She later attended Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she majored in Slavic languages and anthropology. In 2014, she enrolled at the University of Cambridge, where she obtained a PhD, focused on the impact of behavioral genetics on the education system.

Rowing career

While at Stanford, she earned two gold medals, one in the NCAA Division I Rowing Championship. She represented the United States at two World Rowing U23 Championships. While at the University of Cambridge, she competed in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race and was elected president of the Cambridge University Women's Boat Club for the 2018 boat race campaign.

Academic career

She is currently an assistant professor at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Her work focuses on the ethical and social implications of human genetic research.

Selected works

Martschenko DO; Wand H; Young JL; Wojcik GL. . Nature Genetics.
Martschenko DO, Callier SL, Garrison NA, Lee SS, Turley P, Meyer MN, Parens E. . The Hastings Center Report.
Sabatello M, Martschenko DO, Cho MK, Brothers KB. . Science.
Martschenko DO, Trejo S. . Human Genetics and Genomics Advances