Flatiron Institute Staff | Simons Foundation

William H. Press, Ph.D.

Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin
Scientific Advisory Board Member

William H. Press is a computer scientist and computational biologist with broad interests in the physical and biological sciences. He is the Leslie Surginer Professor of Computer Sciences and Integrative Biology at the University of Texas at Austin.

Eric Schmidt, Ph.D.

Board Member and Technical Advisor, Alphabet
Scientific Advisory Board Member

Eric Schmidt served as Google’s chief executive officer from 2001 to 2011 and as its chairman from 2011 to 2017. He currently advises the leaders of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, on technology, business and policy issues.

Erio Tosatti, Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Condensed Matter Group, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Scientific Advisory Board Member

Erio Tosatti is a theoretical condensed matter physicist, working on the theory and simulation of nanofriction and other research areas, including strongly correlated superconductors, nanocontacts and ultrahigh pressure solids. He conducts vigorous research under a European ERC grant, while serving as ICTP’s…

Richard Tsien, Ph.D.

Scientific Director, Marlene and Paolo Fresco Institute for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders
Scientific Advisory Board Member

Richard Tsien, inaugural director of the Neuroscience Institute at New York University Langone Medical Center, has fostered the careers of many excellent neuroscientists over four decades as a teacher at Yale and Stanford Universities before joining NYU in 2011.