Rachel Wong works at the intersection of literature and aesthetics. Her current research uncovers how a constellation of German thinkers, writing in the wake of the French Revolution and the Second World War, sought to uphold their ideals of freedom...
Kelvin J. Y. Wu was born and raised on the sunny island of Singapore. His research interests lie in the discovery of novel anti-infectives, broadly defined, and in addressing the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance. He is a synthetic organic...
Neekon Vafa is a theoretical computer scientist broadly interested in cryptography and its connections to trustworthy machine learning and statistics. He received a PhD in mathematics from MIT. Before MIT, he was a software engineer at Google (YouTube)...
I am fascinated by how race, law, and history intersect. My first book project examines how courts that exclusively tried the crimes of enslaved people racialized the development of criminal defense rights across America and the British Caribbean.
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Amanda Royka is a cognitive scientist interested in the how animals (both human and non-human) understand about the world around them. She received her undergraduate degree in cognitive science from Yale University followed by an MSc in Ecology and...
Christian Blake Pye (PhD, Religious Studies, University of Texas at Austin) studies how Islamic Neoplatonism provided a framework for both universal empire and policies of religious tolerance. His forthcoming monograph The Caliphate of Tahqiq: Ibn ‘Arabi...
I am a mechanistic cell biologist investigating the diverse mechanisms by which RNA and its regulation shape cellular and organismal physiology. I completed my doctoral training in Iain Cheeseman's laboratory and collaborated with Dave Bartel's laboratory...
I am a structural biophysicist with an interdisciplinary background in biochemistry, cryo-electron microscopy, and computational modeling. I am broadly interested in understanding how biomolecules fold, move, and interact in 3D space, and how these...
Severine Hex is a comparative ethologist and behavioral ecologist who studies how animals living in complex societies navigate the challenges of their social worlds. Within a society, individuals deploy different social strategies depending upon their own...
I am a theoretical physicist with interests in various aspects of fundamental physcs, from looking for new mathematical structures underlying elementary particle collisions and observables in cosmology to proposing theories for physics beyond the standard...
