Simons Pivot Fellows

Amit Acharya is a professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, and is a member of the Mechanics, Materials, and Computing (MMC) research group.

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.

Julia W.P. Hsu is a professor of materials science and engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) and holds the Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Nanoelectronics.

Albert Keung is an associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, a University Faculty Scholar and Goodnight Early Career Innovator at North Carolina State University. His group applies synthetic biology and stem cell engineering approaches in three focus areas.

Albion Lawrence is a professor of physics at Brandeis University.

J.Xavier Prochaska is a Distinguished Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Diwakar Shukla is an associate professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an affiliate faculty in the Center for Biophysics and Quantitative Biology, Plant Biology and Bioengineering.