Flatiron Institute Staff

Müller joined the Simons Foundation in 2014 to work at the Simons Center for Data Analysis, developing high-dimensional statistics methods and algorithms with applications to microbial and regulatory networks.

Vikram Mulligan completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto, working in the lab of Avi Chakrabartty on molecular mechanisms of protein misfolding in late-onset neurodegenerative diseases.

Yurina Nakazato joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) as a Flatiron Research Fellow in October 2025.

Samaneh is a junior faculty at Harvard Medical School and MGH, working on improving generalization for health and wellness applications using signal processing and machine learning techniques.

Ehssan Nazockdast is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physical Sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Daniel Needleman joined the Center for Computational Biology as a Senior Research Scientist in September 2020.

Julie has a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Hong Kong.