Simons Society of Fellows

Arkarup Banerjee is a postdoctoral fellow in the Neuroscience Institute at the New York University Langone Medical Center. He received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from the University of Delhi, his master’s degree at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai and his Ph.D. at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Shana Caro is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology at Columbia University, working with Dr. Dustin Rubenstein. She received her A.B. in human evolutionary biology from Harvard University and her D.Phil. in zoology from the University of Oxford, supervised by Professors Ashleigh Griffin and Stu West.

Sylvain Carpentier will be joining the Department of Mathematics at Columbia. He completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Victor Kac.

Sara Fenstermacher is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Dasen at New York University. She received her B.A. from Bucknell University and Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University.

Bianca Jones Marlin is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Richard Axel in the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. She holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience from New York University School of Medicine and dual bachelor’s degrees in biology and adolescent education from Saint John’s University.

Takashi Onikubo is a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Roeder at the Rockefeller University. He received his Ph.D. from Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he joined the laboratory of Dr. David Shechter to study how post-translational modifications alter the function of a histone chaperone during Xenopus laevis development.

Carlotta Ronda is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Systems Biology at Columbia University in Harris Wang’s lab.

Eliran Subag is an incoming postdoctoral researcher at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. He completed his Ph.D. in mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel under the supervision of Ofer Zeitouni, with the support of the Adams Fellowship.

Xin Sun will join he Department of Mathematics at Columbia University as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under the direction of Professor Scott Sheffield.

Michael Waskom is a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Neural Science at New York University. He received his Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, where he was a trainee in the Center for Mind, Brain and Computation.