SIMONS FOUNDATION - Key Persons
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- Senior Software Engineer, SCC
Aaron Watters joined the Scientific Computing Core in 2015 to develop tools that will help biologists examine, manage and process data generated by gene expression and regulatory networks experiments.
Abdul Canatar received his Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University and his B.Sc. in electronics engineering and physics from Sabanci University.
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- Flatiron Research Fellow, NeuroAI and Geometric Data Analysis
Abigail Brown is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Coleen Murphy's lab at Princeton University. Brown holds a bachelor's degree in molecular biology and microbiology from the University of Central Florida and a Ph.D. in
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- Fellow at Princeton University
Adam Calhoun is a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University in the lab of Mala Murthy.
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- Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the University of Washington
Adrienne Fairhall is an associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington, director of the university's computational neuroscience program, and co-director of its Institute for Neuroengineering.
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics As a Flatiron Research Fellow
- Flatiron Research Fellow, CCA
Aida Behmard joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics as a Flatiron Research Fellow in September 2024.
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- Alan Turing Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
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- Group Leader, Numerical Analysis
Alex Barnett started working with the foundation in 2014 and joined full-time in 2017. He is an applied mathematician and numerical analyst working in partial differential equations, fast algorithms, neuroscience, and imaging. Prior to 2017, Barnett was a professor of mathematics at
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- Associate Software Engineer, SCC
Alex Chavkin joined the Foundation in 2018 as Technology Engineer with SCC.
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- Senior Scientist
- Vice President
- Vice President and Senior Scientist, Neuroscience Collaborations
Alyssa Picchini Schaffer is a vice president and senior scientist at the Simons Foundation, where she manages the neuroscience collaborations (the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, and the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain) and the Pivot Fellowship.
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Columbia University As an Assistant Professor
- Visiting Scholar, CCQ
Ana joined Columbia University as an assistant professor of physics in January 2019.
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- Senior Data Scientist, SCC
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- Flatiron Research Fellow, CCA
Andrea Antoni joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in 2024.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
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- Member of the Program Leadership Team
- Member of the Research Committee
- Co - Director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics
- Co - Director, CCQ
- Co - Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute
Andrew Millis is co-director of the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute and professor of physics at Columbia University. He currently serves as Managing Director of the Flatiron Institute.
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- Fellow at the Rockefeller University
Anindita Brahma is a postdoctoral fellow at the Rockefeller University.
Anna Bowen is an Alaskan Native (Aleut tribe) and a first-year postdoctoral fellow in the Steinmetz lab at the University of Washington.
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- Project Manager, Neuroscience Collaborations
Annaliese Gaeta has a bachelor's degree in politics and history. She brought to the foundation professional experience in government and television production when she joined the staff in 2010.
Anne Billot is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Randy Buckner's lab at Harvard University. Billot holds a bachelor's degree in speech and language pathology from Sorbonne University and a Ph.D. in neuroscience from Boston
Anne Churchland is a professor of neurobiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Member of the Program Leadership Team
- Member of the Research Committee
- Director, CCQ
- Director, Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute
- Professor of Physics at the Collège De France
Antoine Georges is a professor of physics at the Collège de France, where he holds the chair in condensed matter physics. He also has joint appointments with École Polytechnique and the University of Geneva. He received his Ph.D. from the
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- Fellow in Kay Tye 's Laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Austin Coley is a postdoctoral fellow in Kay Tye's laboratory at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
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- Flatiron Institute 's Center for Computational Mathematics As a Research Fellow
Berfin Simsek joined the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Mathematics as a Research Fellow in September 2024. She is currently studying exciting deep learning models and developing mathematical analyses of representations of critical points (also known as feature learning). During her Ph.D.
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Beth Stevens is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School in the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center at Boston Children's Hospital, and an institute member of the Broad Institute and the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Associate Data Scientist
- Center for Computational Neuroscience As an Associate Data Scientist
Billy Broderick joined the Center for Computational Neuroscience as an associate data scientist in Fall 2022.
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- Flatiron Research Fellow, Biophysical Modeling
Brato Chakrabarti joined the Center for Computational Biology's Biophysical Modeling Group in March 2020.
Brendan Bicknell is a postdoctoral fellow at University College London.
Brett Dakin - Chief Legal Officer, SVP
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- General Counsel
- Member of the Corporate Officers Team
- Senior Vice President
Brian Busemeyer joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) in September of 2019. He is interested in leveraging systematic downfolding techniques to better understand correlated electron systems and the extent to which different simplified models may describe them.
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- Fellow at the Champalimaud Foundation
Caroline Haimerl is a postdoctoral fellow at the Champalimaud Foundation.
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- Flatiron Research Fellow, NeuroAI and Geometric Data Analysis
Chi-Ning Chou is a Flatiron Research Fellow in the Center for Computational Neuroscience.
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- Director, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute / Scientific Advisory Board Member
- Distinguished Professor
Chris Johnson is a distinguished professor of computer science and founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah. He also holds faculty appointments in the departments of physics and bioengineering.
Christina Darras joined the Simons Foundation in May 2024 as an Event Manager. She is responsible for the coordination of events for the MPS division.
Chunyu Ann Duan is a systems neuroscientist interested in understanding how complex neural dynamics produce cognitive behaviors on the circuit level. She is currently a group leader at Sainsbury Wellcome Centre in London.
Coleen T. Murphy is a Professor of Genomics and Molecular Biology at Princeton University.
In 2022, Corentin moved to Paris, France, and joined Atos as a quantum physics research engineer to better understand and push forward the capabilities of quantum computing.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
Daniel Bauernfeind joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics (CCQ) in October of 2019.
Daniel Birman is a postdoctoral fellow leading the Virtual Brain Lab (VBL) project in the Steinmetz Lab at the University of Washington.
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- Fellow in the Lab of Michael Shadlen
Danique Jeurissen is a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Michael Shadlen at Columbia University.
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- Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for Data Science, NJIT
- Distinguished Professor and Founder of the Department of Data Science
David A. Bader is a Distinguished Professor and founder of the Department of Data Science and inaugural Director of the Institute for Data Science at New Jersey Institute of Technology.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Researcher
- Guest Researcher
David H. Brainard is a Guest Researcher working with the Laboratory for Computational Vision at the Flatiron Institute. He has a joint position as the RRL Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
David J. Anderson is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA, and an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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- Member of the Corporate Officers Team
- President
David W. Tank is the Henry L. Hillman Professor in Molecular Biology at Princeton University and co-director of the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. He also directs the Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics.
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- Professor of Neural Science at the Tandon School of Engineering
Dora Angelaki is a Professor of Neural Science at the Tandon school of Engineering at New York University.
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- Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University
Dorian Goldfeld, a professor of mathematics at Columbia University, is the recipient of the Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory and the Vaughan Prize and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a fellow of the AMS.
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- Data Scientist
- Principal Developers of NeMoS
Edoardo Balzani is one of the principal developers of NeMoS, a package for statistical modeling of neural activity.
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- Director
- Director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience
- Director, Center for Computational Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute
Eero P. Simoncelli is the inaugural director of the Center for Computational Neuroscience. Eero P. Simoncelli's research interests span a wide range of topics in the representation and analysis of visual images and sounds in both machine and biological vision
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- Senior Manager, Programs and Administration
Elizabeth Roy joined the Simons Foundation in 2010. She is currently the Senior Manager for Programs and Administration in MPS, focusing on program and budget management.
Elom Amematsro is a fourth-year graduate student in the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University, where he is completing his Ph.D. research under the supervision of professors Larry Abbott and Mark Churchland.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
Emre Aksay received a master's in physics from Princeton University in 1996 and a doctorate in biophysics from New York University in 2001 while working concurrently in the Biological Computation Division at Bell Laboratories.
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- Chief Operating Officer
- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Corporate Officers Team
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- Fellow at the Champalimaud Foundation
Fanny Cazettes is a postdoctoral fellow at the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Senior Fellow
- Emeritus Trustee
Gerald Fischbach joined the Simons Foundation in 2006 to oversee the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI). He then became the foundation's first chief scientist and fellow and currently holds the title of Distinguished Scientist and Fellow.
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- Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University
- Visiting Scholar
Greg L. Bryan is a professor of Astronomy at Columbia University.
Greg Gabadadze joined MPS in 2017 and is a professor of physics and the dean for science at New York University, where he previously chaired the physics department and served as director of the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics.
Géraud Krawezik joined the foundation in 2021 as a software engineer in the Scientific Computing Core in the Flatiron Institute.
Hannah Brenner is currently studying at the University of Vienna, where she is pursuing a dual degree.
Hee Oh is the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. She was awarded the 2015 Satter Prize, a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2018 Ho-Am prize in Science, and is an inaugural Fellow of the AMS. She is serving as
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- Director of the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics
- Professor of Astrophysics at University College London
Hiranya Peiris is professor of astrophysics at University College London and director of the Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics in Stockholm. Her research aims to test fundamental physics using large cosmological datasets.
Ian Fisk came to the Simons Foundation in 2014 after working in the computing division at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois since 2003. Fisk was the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment's computing coordinator at CERN from 2010 to 2013, overseeing
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
J. Anthony Movshon studies vision and visual perception, using a multidisciplinary approach that combines biology, behavior and theory.
Jacob Cappell joined the Simons Foundation in 2014 with a background in independent web design and production. He is responsible for production of the Mathematics and Physical Sciences section of SimonsFoundation.org.
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- Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University / Scientific Advisory Board Member
Ingrid Daubechies earned her Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. She is best known for her breakthroughs in wavelets and contributions to digital signal processing.
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- Chairman Emeritus
- Co - Founder
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- University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, and of Plant, Soil and Microbial Sciences / Director of the Center for Microbial Ecology
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- Research Scientist
- Research Scientist, Developmental Dynamics
Jasmin Imran Alsous joined the foundation in 2021 as a research scientist in the Developmental Dynamics Group.
Jason Alipio is a mentor in the 2024 SURFiN program. He is a postdoctoral fellow in Amar Sahay's lab at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Alipio holds a bachelor's degree in biopsychology from California State University, San Bernardino and a
Javonna Bradford is a biology major at Spelman College. Read more
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics
- Visiting Scholar, CCQ
Jennifer Cano joined the Flatiron Institute in 2018 as an Affiliated Associate Research Scientist at the Center for Computational Quantum Physics. She is an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University.
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- Student and Fellow Program Manager, Neuroscience Collaborations
Jennifer Valdivia Espino is the student and fellow program manager for the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) and the Simons Foundation Neuroscience Collaborations.
Jesus Cabrales is in his third year at the University of Washington in Seattle, currently pursuing a major in biochemistry with a double minor in global health and bioethics.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
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- Member of the Research Committee
Joakim Andén joined the foundation in 2017 as part of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology. As a member of the Numerical Algorithms group, he develops new methods for analysis of biological data, with particular focus on cryo-electron microscopy.
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- Center for Computational Quantum Physics As a Flatiron Research Fellow
John Bonini joined the Center for Computational Quantum Physics as a Flatiron research fellow in 2020.
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- Member of the Program Leadership Team
- Director, CCA
- Director, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute
Julianne Dalcanton joined the Simons Foundation in September 2021 as the director of the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA). Her research specializes in the origins and evolution of galaxies.
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- Senior Technology Engineer, SCC
- Technology Engineer
Justin Creveling joined the foundation in 2012 as technology engineer, having previously worked closely with the foundation as a consultant.
Katherine Cora Ames was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, working in the labs of Mark Churchland and Larry Abbott and will begin a position as Senior Application Scientist, LifeCanvas Technologies in 2020.
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- Executive Vice President
- Member of the Program Leadership Team
- Executive Vice President, Autism and Neuroscience
- Executive Vice President, SFARI and Neuroscience Collaborations
Kelsey Martin is the Simons Foundation's Executive Vice President, Autism and Neuroscience. She joined the foundation in 2021.
Krithika Venkataraman is a scientist on the Neuroscience Collaborations team and is the scientific lead for the Simons Collaboration on Plasticity and the Aging Brain (SCPAB).
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- Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University
Larry Abbott is the William Bloor Professor of Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University.
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- Associate
- Research Analyst
LaToya Anderson is an associate research analyst for the Center for Computational Quantum Physics at the Flatiron Institute.
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- Fellow at Stanford University
Laura Driscoll is a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University where she works in the lab of David Sussillo and Krishna Shenoy.
Lauren Benovich is currently a senior at the University of Michigan studying neuroscience.
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- Researcher at Stanford University
Lea Duncker is a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University, where she works with Krishna Shenoy and Scott Linderman.
Lehman Garrison joined the Flatiron Institute in 2019 as a Flatiron Research Fellow.
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- Member of the Program Leadership Team
- Member of the Research Committee
- Director, CCM
- Director, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
- Founding Director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis
Leslie Greengard joined the Simons Foundation in 2013 as founding director of the Simons Center for Data Analysis, now called the Center for Computational Biology. Prior to that, Greengard served as director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at
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- Senior Data Scientist, Developmental Dynamics / Senior Project Lead, Data Visualization and Analysis
Lisa joined the Center for Computational Biology in 2020. She is working on designing and implementing a pipeline for the registration, segmentation, tracking and analysis of the mechanisms in morphology and genetic expression in embryonic development.
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- Professor of Neuroscience at Princeton University
Mala Murthy is a professor of neuroscience at Princeton University and leads a lab in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. The lab's work focuses on the neural mechanisms that underlie social communication, using the fruit fly Drosophila as a model system.
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- Researcher in Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University 's Zuckerman Institute
Manuel Beiran is a postdoctoral researcher in theoretical neuroscience at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute.
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Associate Research Scientist, CCM
Marco Barbone is a graduate student in the Department of Computing at Imperial College, London.
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- Associate Research Scientist, Developmental Dynamics
- Member of the Developmental Dynamics Group
Maria Avdeeva joined the Flatiron Institute in 2020 as a member of the Developmental Dynamics Group.
Maria Dadarlat was a postdoctoral researcher in the physiology department at the University of California, San Francisco and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University.
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- Member of the Program Leadership Team
- Executive Vice President, Life Sciences
Marian Carlson received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1981 she joined the faculty at Columbia University, where she was a professor of
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- Chairman
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
Marlene Cohen is a professor in the Department of Neurobiology and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Chicago.
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- Chief Financial Officer
- Member of the Corporate Officers Team
- Senior Vice President
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- Group Leader, Modeling and Simulation
Marsha Berger joined the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Mathematics in January 2021. Berger is also the Silver Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at the Courant Institute at New York University.
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- Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics
- Research Scientist, Exoplanets
Megan Bedell joined the foundation in 2017 as a Flatiron Research Fellow at the Center for Computational Astrophysics. Her research broadly covers the discovery of new exoplanets and the characterization of Sun-like stars throughout the galaxy, with a particular focus on the
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- Senior Manager, Events and Administration
Meghan Fazzi joined the Simons Foundation in 2008. She directs the division's conferences and events as well as oversees the day-to-day activities of MPS, which include supporting director Yuri Tschinkel.
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- Director, CCB
- Director, Center for Computational Biology, Flatiron Institute
Michael Shelley joined the Simons Foundation in 2016 to work on the modeling and simulation of complex systems arising in physics and biology.
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- Flatiron Research Fellow, Structural and Molecular Biophysics
Miro Astore joined the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) in 2022.
Misha Ahrens is a group leader at Janelia Farm Research Campus.
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- Student at CUNY College of Staten Island in New York
Nana Dufie Akowuah is a student at CUNY College of Staten Island in New York, majoring in biology.
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- Department of Integrative Biology
Nick Carriero came to the Simons Foundation in 2014 from Yale University, where he was a senior research scientist in computer science and co-director of the W.M. Keck Biotechnology Resource Laboratory's high-performance computing resource.
Nikos Trikoupis joined the Simons Foundation in 2016 to work in the design, planning, acquisition and operations of the scientific computing infrastructure for the Flatiron Institute.
Niyathi Annamaneni is in her third year at San Jose State University majoring in psychology and minoring in studio art.
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Flatiron Research Fellow, CCM
Nour Al Hassanieh joined Center for Computational Mathematics (CCM) as a Flatiron Research Fellow.
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- Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute
Osama Ahmed is a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute where he works in the lab of Mala Murthy.
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- Member of the Scientific Computing Core
- Senior Software Engineer, SCC
Pat Gunn joined the foundation in 2017 as a member of the Scientific Computing Core, initially focused on neuroscience projects. Prior to coming here, he worked at Dropbox, MongoDB and Spotflux. Before that, he spent a decade as a member of the
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- Professor of Physics, University of Chicago
Before joining the faculty at the University of Chicago, Peter Littlewood was director of Argonne National Laboratory. His research interests include superconductivity and superfluidity, strongly correlated electronic materials, collective dynamics of glasses, and applications of materials for energy and sustainability.
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- Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado
- Senior Research Scientist, Exoplanets
Phil Armitage is professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2018, he will take up a joint position at Stony Brook University and the Center for Computational Astrophysics. His research focuses on the formation and evolution
Ralph Adolphs is the Bren Professor of Psychology, Neuroscience and Biology at the California Institute of Technology.
Randy Buckner is the Sosland Family professor of psychology and of neuroscience at Harvard University and is affiliated with the Harvard Center for Brain Science.
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- Alan Turing Professor of Complex Physical Systems, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
Ray Goldstein is a biological physicist whose work combines theory and experiment in the study of fundamental problems in evolutionary and developmental biology.
Robert Blackwell joined the Flatiron Institute in 2019 to provide support to researchers on numerical software design, organization and optimization.
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- Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania
Robin Pemantle is the Merriam Term Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania since 2003. He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and a Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics.
Ryan Adams is assistant professor of computer science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University.
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- Scientist
- Scientist, Neuroscience Collaborations
Sachin Ranade is a scientist on the Neuroscience Collaborations team and the scientific lead for the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB).
Samira Abdulai-Saiku is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Dr. Dena Dubal at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).
Saul Villeda is an associate professor and holds an endowed chair in biomedical science at the University of California, San Francisco.
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- Member of the Board of Trustees
- Trustee
- Vice Chair
- Professor of Molecular Biology and Public Policy / President Emerita
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- Data and Pipeline Project Leader, Cosmology / Simons Observatory
Simone Aiola joined the CCA at the end of 2018 as the Data & Pipeline Project Leader for the Simons Observatory (SO). He is also an active member of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration.
Sophie Aimon is a postdoctoral fellow in ROLI Lab at Max Planck Institute (MPI) Tuebingen.
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- Researcher in the Lab of Catherine Kaczorowski
Stephanie Boas is a postdoctoral researcher in the lab of Catherine Kaczorowski at the University of Michigan.
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- Member of the Research Committee
- Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Visiting Scholar, CCM
Travis Askham is an Assistant Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Askham's research focus is on scientific computing.
Valerie Calligy is part of the 2024 SURFiN fellows cohort. She is an undergraduate student studying quantitative social science at Stevens Institute of Technology. Her research interests include neuropsychology, cognition and visual information processing.
Vasila Abdumuminova is a Thomas Hunter Scholar at Hunter College pursuing her bachelor's degree in biochemistry with a minor in economics.
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- Flatiron Research Fellow, Biophysical Modeling
Victor Chardès joined the Center for Computational Biology in October 2022. He has a Ph.D. in Physics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris.
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- Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at Columbia 's Zuckerman Institute
Vikram Gadagkar is an assistant professor of neuroscience at Columbia's Zuckerman Institute.
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- Professor in the Physics Department at the New York City College of Technology
Viviana Acquaviva is a professor in the Physics Department at the New York City College of Technology (City Tech) and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Acquaviva is also a long-term visiting scholar at the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Astrophysics.
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- Research Scientist, Genomics
Xi Chen joined the Flatiron Institute's Center for Computational Biology in 2016 in the genomics group. Chen's research focuses on developing algorithms for processing and statistical analysis of heterogeneous genomics data. He has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute
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- Assistant Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science
Xiaoyin Chen is an assistant investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. Chen and his team are developing and applying sequencing-based neuroanatomical approaches to understand the wiring logic of neuronal types across development and evolution.
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- Executive Vice President, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Tschinkel's research is at the interface of algebraic geometry and number theory. He studies higher-dimensional algebraic varieties, their hidden symmetries and rational points. He is the author of 160 papers and editor of 20 books.