Simons Society of Fellows: People

Eddy Albarran is a postdoctoral research scientist in the laboratory of Dr. Rui Costa in the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute at Columbia University. For his postdoctoral work with Drs. Rui Costa and Darcy Peterka, Albarran is using a brain-machine interface paradigm to probe how dopamine orchestrates the sculpting of neural circuits during reinforcement learning.

Juan Esteban Rodríguez Camargo’s main area of research is arithmetic geometry, focused on the cohomology of Shimura varieties. He uses tools from condensed mathematics, representation theory and p-adic Hodge theory to understand the deeply involved relation between automorphic forms and Galois representations. In his future work, he will continue the development of the theory of solid locally analytic representations and find more applications to the p-adic local Langlands program.

Sanchit Chaturvedi is a postdoctoral fellow at the Courant Institute at New York University and works with Vlad Vicol and Scott Armstrong. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University with Jonathan Luk and previously was an undergraduate student at New York University. He grew up in Agra, India, and completed high school in Agra.

Ella King is a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Soft Matter Research at New York University, working with David Grier. She received her Ph.D. in physics from Harvard University with Michael Brenner.

Žiga Krajnik is a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Aditi Mitra in the physics department at New York University. He received his B.S., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia while under the supervision of Professor Tomaž Prosen. During his doctoral studies, he was awarded the Milan Lenarčič Foundation scholarship.

Christopher Lafferty is a postdoctoral researcher with György Buzsáki at the New York University Neuroscience Institute. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University under the supervision of Jonathan Britt.

Isabel Low is a postdoctoral neuroscientist in Dr. Dmitriy Aronov's lab at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in neurosciences from Stanford University and her B.A. in neuroscience and creative writing from Bowdoin College. Isabel is investigating how different parts of the brain communicate to transform memories into actions.

Francesca Mignacco is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Physics of Biological Function, a joint effort between the Graduate Center at City University of New York and Princeton University. Her research interests are at the crossroads of statistical physics, machine learning and computational neuroscience. Her graduate research focused on the search for theoretical foundations of machine learning using methods and knowledge from statistical physics.