Megan Abbott Author Megan Abbott is the award-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything and her latest, The Fever, which won both the International Thriller Writers and Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and was chosen one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, Amazon, the Boston Globe and the Los Angeles Times.… read more »
Alex Abdo Staff Attorney, American Civil Liberties Union National Security Project Alex Abdo is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project. He is counsel in the ACLU’s challenge to the NSA’s phone-records program and has been involved in the litigation of cases concerning the Patriot Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the treatment of detainees in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Navy brig in South Carolina.… read more »
Joseph Adamson Joseph Adamson is Professor Emeritus of English at McMaster University. His current area of research focuses on the relevance of Silvan Tomkins’ affect and script theory to literature, in particular how affective and shame dynamics inform and shape a writer’s life and work.… read more »
Emily Adlam Postdoctoral Associate, Rotman Institute for Philosophy of Science, University of Western Ontario View Papers / Presentations » Emily Adlam is a postdoctoral associate at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy of Science at the University of Western Ontario. She recevied her PhD in relativistic quantum information from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that she completed the Perimeter Scholar’s International programme in theoretical physics, and she did her undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy at the Univeristy of Oxford.… read more »
Monica Aiello Denver-based duo Monica and Tyler Aiello are award-winning artists and pioneering STEAM specialists recognized for their work uniting art, science, and engineering. For more than a decade, they have collaborated with NASA and the scientific community to create fine art and public practice initiatives that galvanize transdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement.… read more »
Cristina Alberini Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University Cristina Alberini, Professor in the Center for Neural Science, New York University, has been studying the biological mechanisms of long-term memory for the last 20 years. Her studies explore the biological mechanisms of memory consolidation and reconsolidation, the processes by which newly learned information become long-lasting memories, and how memories are modulated and integrated into complex behavioral manifestations.… read more »
Jeffrey Alexander Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University Co-Director, Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology Co-Editor, The American Journal of Cultural Sociology Jeffrey Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, founder and co-director of Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology, and co-editor of The American Journal of Cultural Sociology. A social theorist whose early work challenged the anti-cultural reductionism of classical and modern sociology, Alexander has worked with generations of students and colleagues to create a “strong program” in cultural sociology.… read more »
Mark Alford Professor of Physics, Washington University in Saint Louis Mark Alford is chairman of the physics department at Washington University in Saint Louis. He performs research at the intersection of particle physics, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, focusing on the theory of neutron stars and the ultradense matter that exists inside them.… read more »
Elizabeth Alter Elizabeth Alter is an evolutionary geneticist, professor of biology at City University of New York (Graduate Center and York College), and Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on understanding how aquatic biodiversity is generated and maintained, particularly in extreme environments such as river rapids and toxic urban waters, using the tools of genomics.… read more »
Amelia Amon Amelia Amon is a solar designer with an aesthetic approach to integrating sustainable energy into the built environment. Her design company develops products and installations, including a solar awnings with architects, solar signage for wayfinding, dark-sky compliant solar LED lights for SolarOne Solutions, solar sculptural trackers for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), interpretive exhibits for science museums & environmental centers such as Liberty Science Center, the Sustainable Development Fund of PA, and the NY SunWorks Science Barge, system components for the NY State Energy Research & Development Authority, (NYSERDA), a fountain for the Smithsonian National Design Museum, solar freezer carts for Ben & Jerry’s, & alternative energy resources for rural women in India with the Institute for Policy Studies.… read more »
Larry Amsel Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Dr. Amsel, a clinical and research psychiatrist, is on the faculty of Columbia University. Dr. Amsel has a mathematics background, and was an early proponent of using decision science, game theory and Behavioral Economics in psychiatric research. In 2003, he organized the first American Psychiatric Association (APA) symposium on the applications of Game Theory to psychiatry, and chaired an invited follow up symposium at the 2015 APA annual meeting.… read more »
Suzanne Anker Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally in museums and galleries including the ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian Institute, the Phillips Collection, P.S.1… read more »
François Ansermet Vice President, Agalma Foundation; Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Geneva; Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Children's Hospital of the University Hospitals of Geneva François Ansermet practices as a psychoanalyst in Geneva, and is a member of the School of the Freudian Cause, the New Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis and the World Association of Psychoanalysis. He is currently Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Geneva and Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Children’s Hospital of the University Hospitals of Geneva.… read more »
Apkar Apkarian Professor of Physiology Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine “I am Professor of Physiology, Anesthesiology, and PM&R at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois. Over the past two decades my lab has been devoted to unravelling the brain mechanisms underlying chronic back pain (CBP), which has culminated in over 50 papers and a current clinical trial designed to arrest the development of CBP.… read more »
Nacho Arimany Ethnic percussionist, Composer Nacho Arimany is a master ethnic percussionist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, currently based in New York City. His music career began at age six as a classical piano student and singer with the Spanish National Choir and Orchestra, and he now works as a producer, performer, therapeutic musician, and educator.… read more »
Josh Aronson Producer/Director/Writer, Josh Aonson began his career out of college as a still photographer for Time Life and began making films in 1979. He directed hundreds of commercials, rock videos, television pilots and, for the past 20 years, he specialized in documentaries.… read more »
Avner Ash Professor of Mathematics, Boston College Avner Ash is Professor of Mathematics at Boston College. His recent research is mostly in Number Theory, at an intersection of topology, group theory and Galois theory. His Ph.D. was awarded at Harvard under the direction of David Mumford. He has held faculty positions at Columbia and The Ohio State University.… read more »
Harald Atmanspacher Physicist, The Collegium Helveticum (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) View Papers / Presentations » Harald Atmanspacher, PhD, is a senior scientist and staff member at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, since 2007. After his PhD in physics at Munich University (1986), he worked as a research scientist at the Max-Planck-Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics at Garching until 1998.… read more »
Allison Avery Vice President of Inclusion and Community, Dow Jones Allison Avery is the Vice President of Inclusion and Community at Dow Jones, leading global diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. She has expertise, as both a practitioner and strategist, in DE&I, organizational culture, learning and development. She has held senior DE&I and People Team roles at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, LLP, NYU Langone Health and Hospital System, and NYU School of Medicine as the first Director of Diversity and Inclusion.… read more »
Mahan Azadpour Research Associate Professor, NYU Grossman School of Medicine Dr. Mahan Azadpour is a Research Associate Professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, where he focuses his research on cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant devices. These are the most successful neural interface technologies and have transformed the lives of deaf individuals by enabling hearing sensation through direct stimulation of auditory neural pathways with surgically implanted electrodes.… read more »