Susan Landau works on cybersecurity, privacy, and public policy. Over the years, Landau has advised government officials in the U.S. and Europe on security risks of various surveillance technologies, helped in the development of privacy and security policies for the Liberty federated identity management system, and helped establish Sun Microsystem’s innovative stance on digital-rights management.
I received my B.S. in Physics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia. I went to graduate school at Caltech, and received my Ph.D. in Mathematics under the guidance of Barry Simon. My Ph.D. work was on quantum scattering, and tools of Fourier analysisthat were novel in this context. My last year at Caltech had been
Robert P. Kirshner is Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University. He graduated from Harvard College in 1970 and received a Ph.D. in Astronomy at Caltech. He was a postdoc at the Kitt Peak National Observatory and served on the faculty at the University of Michigan for nine years. In 1986, he moved to the
Nets Katz received a B.A. in Mathematics from Rice University in 1990 and a Ph.D.in Mathematics under Dennis DeTurck at University of Pennsylvania in 1993. After postdoctoral positions at Yale, Edinburgh, and MSRI, he has held an assistant professorship at University of Illinois Chicago and an associate professorship at Washington University St. Louis before moving
Scott Hughes is Associate Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A native of Pennsylvania, he received a Bachelor’s degree in physics from Cornell University in 1993 and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1998. Following short postdoctoral positions at the University of Illinois and at Caltech,
Jennifer S. Hirsch is Professor and Deputy Chair for Doctoral Studies in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in New York City. A medical anthropologist, her research agenda spans four intertwined domains: the anthropology of love; gender, sexuality and migration; the application of this research on gender, sexuality
I became interested in mathematics while in high school, when I received a bronze medal in the 24th International Mathematical Olympiad in Paris (1983) and a special distinction for an unusual solution to one of the problems. I received my B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece, in 1987, and my Ph.D. from
Shep Doeleman received his B.A. from Reed College in 1986, and left soon after for a year in Antarctica where he conducted multiple space-science experiments at McMurdo Station on the Ross Ice Shelf. With an appreciation for the challenges and rewards of instrumental work in difficult circumstances, he returned to complete a Ph.D. in astrophysics
John Carlson received his A.B. degree in biochemistry at Harvard in 1977, and his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford in 1982. For three years he carried out postdoctoral work at Stanford, and for twenty-six years he has been on the faculty at Yale, where he is currently Higgins Professor. His laboratory identified the first insect
Dennis Zaritsky’s research interests span a range of topics primarily focused on extragalactic observational astronomy. Some highlights include the first measurements of dark matter masses out to the virial radii of individual galaxies, a standard reference for chemical abundance gradients in galaxies, the first spatially complete stellar census of the Magellanic Clouds to stars fainter
My research career grew out of an education in fields ranging from biochemistry/molecular biology to experimental neurophysiology. My varied experience across fields and across different experimental techniques (cell culture, electrophysiology, neuromuscular junction, brain slices, and imaging) has been always motivated by my interests in how the brain as a whole can process and store information
Dr. Yanovsky gained his PhD in Biological Sciences in 1999 from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, before completing his postdoctoral studies at The Scripps Research Institute, U.S.A., in 2003. He is currently PI at Fundación Instituto Leloir-IIBBA (CONICET), and Associate Professor at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Yanovsky has received the Howard Hughes
Andrés Rivera was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1966, and received the Geographer professional title from the University of Chile in 1989, when he was awarded the best student of his generation. He has been working in glaciology since 1988, when he did the first glacier inventory between 36-41° S latitude in Chile. Since then
Gustavo Paratcha received his M.Sc. in Biology (1992) and his Ph.D. in Biological Sciences (1997) from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina. During his Ph.D. studies, his research focused on striatal synaptic changes underlying circling motor behavior. In 1997, he became a postdoc in Jorge Medina’s laboratory at the Institute of Cellular Biology and
Mario Hamuy is a Chilean astronomer and Full Professor at the Astronomy Department of Universidad de Chile. He is well known for his research on all classes of supernovae, especially in the use of Type Ia and Type II supernovae as distance indicators and the measurement of fundamental cosmological parameters. Hamuy obtained his Ph.D. in
Fabio Doctorovich is the head of the Laboratory of Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry and a CONICET Principal Researcher at INQUIMAE, as well as a Professor at the School of Science (UBA) in Buenos Aires. His group is currently working on NO/HNO coordination chemistry; the development of CO donors for biological studies, as well as catalysts
Eduardo M. Castaño is one of the world’s leading researchers on the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Among the principal focuses of his work are the relationship of amyloid peptides, specifically beta amyloid (Aβ), to the neuronal degeneration associated with AD and the development of anti-Aβ immunotherapy. Dr. Castaño received his medical degree, with honors,
One of the world’s leading researchers on the evolution of Y chromosomes and an active participant in both the Drosophila and Rhodnius prolixus genome projects, Antonio Bernardo Carvalho is an Associate Professor in the Genetics Department at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UFRJ), a position he has held since 1991. He was
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