About Us
The Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division seeks to advance the fundamental understanding of life on Earth. The division’s previous initiatives focused on microbial ecology and evolution, including the biogeochemical modeling of marine ecosystems. New programs will expand to all ecosystems, with emphases on eco-evolutionary dynamics and plant biology. All its programs aim to encourage scientific exchange within and between fields and support early-career scientists.
Leadership
Joy Bergelson, Ph.D.
Joy Bergelson is the executive vice president of the Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division and the Silver Professor in the Department of Biology at New York University (NYU). She oversees a grant portfolio focusing on projects in ecology and evolutionary…
Read MoreMarian Carlson, Ph.D.
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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