Simons Society of Fellows: People

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 an incoming assistant professor at Northwestern University in the departments of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering.

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.