Simons Society of Fellows

Ruth Angus joined the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute in October, 2018.

Gilad Asharov is an incoming postdoctoral research scientist in the department of computer science at Cornell Tech. He completed his Ph.D. at Bar-Ilan University in Israel under the supervision of Yehuda Lindell.

Timothy Burbridge is a postdoctoral fellow in the Neuroscience Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center. He received his B.A. in biology from Williams College and his Ph.D. in neurobiology at Yale University.

Logan Grosenick is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Statistics at Columbia University. He received a Ph.D. in neurosciences from Stanford University, where he worked with Karl Deisseroth and Marc Levoy developing novel methods for volumetric functional neuroimaging of neural circuits in behaving animals.

Mijo Simunovic obtained his first Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in the field of theoretical chemistry. Working with Gregory Voth, he applied theoretical modeling and mesoscale-level simulations to study how proteins organize on lipid membranes to change their shape.

Yi Sun will be joining the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University as a postdoctoral research scientist. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology under the supervision of Pavel Etingof.

Li-Cheng Tsai is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University, working with Professor Ivan Corwin. Tsai received his B.S. degree in Physics from National Taiwan University, and later received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Stanford University, with Professor Amir Dembo being his thesis advisor.

Zheng (Herbert) Wu is a joint postdoctoral fellow in the laboratories of Drs. Richard Axel and Michael Shadlen in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Harvard University and his B.S. from Fudan University in China.