Elizabeth Haase Assistant Clinical Professor, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center Dr. Haase is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice, an Assistant Clinical Professor at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and a member of the Executive Committee of the Helix Center. Her professional activities include work as editor, writer, and teacher for The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, The Association of Dynamic Psychiatry, and The Chinese American Psychoanalytic Alliance in the areas of bipolar disorder, sexuality, and an emerging interest in global psychiatry.… read more »
Nouchine Hadjikhani Associate Professor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School Nouchine Hadjikhani, MD, PhD, does brain research at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston, where she directs the Neurolimbic research laboratory. She is also invited Professor at the Gillberg Neuropsychiatric Center in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her initial focus of research was the visual system, which over time developed into several topics, including migraine, emotion processing and autism.… read more »
Garry Hagberg James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics, Bard College Garry Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College, and has also held a Chair in the School of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. Author of numerous papers at the intersection of aesthetics and the philosophy of language, his books include Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge (Cornell 1994), Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory (Cornell 1995), and Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness (Oxford 2008).… read more »
Martin Hägglund Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, Yale University Martin Hägglund is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of three books, most recently Dying for Time: Proust, Woolf, Nabokov (Harvard University Press, 2012) and Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life (Stanford University Press, 2008).… read more »
Thomas Callister Hales Mellon Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh Thomas C. Hales is the Mellon Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, a Tripos Part III from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. from Princeton University in representation theory under R.… read more »
Kathryn Hall Director of Basic & Translational Research, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Assistant Professor, Medicine, Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School Dr. Kathryn Hall is Director of Basic and Translational Research at Osher Center for Integrative Medicine and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Preventive Medicine, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School. After receiving her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from Harvard University she spent 10 years in the biotech industry tackling problems in drug discovery and development, first at Wyeth (now Pfizer) and then at Millennium Pharmaceuticals (now Takeda), where she became an Associate Director of Drug Development.… read more »
Hans Halvorson Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University Hans Halvorson is the Stuart Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University. He has written extensively on the foundations of quantum physics, philosophy of science, and the relationship between science and theology, with articles appearing in the Journal of Mathematical Physics, Physical Review, and The British Journal for Philosophy of Science, among others.… read more »
Joel David Hamkins Professor of Mathematics, Philosophy and Computer Science at the City University of New York Joel David Hamkins (Ph.D., C. Phil., University of California at Berkeley; B.S., California Institute of Technology) is professor of mathematics, of philosophy and of computer science at the City University of New York, affiliated with the College of Staten Island and the doctoral faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center in midtown Manhattan. … read more »
Mark Hansen David & Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism & Innovation, Columbia Journalism School Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation Mark Hansen is the David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and the director of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia University. He has had over 20 years of collaborations with designers, architects and artists, helping make work that has been exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum, the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, the London Science Museum, the Cartier Foundation in Paris, and the lobbies of the New York Times building and the Public Theater (permanent displays) in Manhattan.… read more »
David Hanson Founder and CEO, Hanson Robotics Lab Dr. David Hanson has built a worldwide reputation for creating the world’s most humanlike, empathetic robots, endowed with remarkable expressiveness, aesthetics and interactivity. He has produced many renowned, one-of-a-kind robot characters that have received massive media and public acclaim. Dr. Hanson publishes regularly in materials science, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and robotics journals, including SPIE, IEEE, the International Journal of Cognitive Science, IROS, AAAI and AI magazine.… read more »
Paul Harris Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education, Harvard Paul Harris is a developmental psychologist with interests in the development of cognition, emotion and imagination. After studying psychology at Sussex and Oxford, he taught at the University of Lancaster, the Free University of Amsterdam and the London School of Economics.… read more »
Michael Harris Professor of Mathematics, Columbia University Michael Harris is Professor of Mathematics at Columbia University; before that he held positions at Brandeis University and Université Paris-Diderot. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1977 from Harvard University, under the direction of Barry Mazur. He has organized or co-organized more than 20 conferences, workshops, and special programs in his field of number theory.… read more »
Jesse Harris Songwriter/Singer/Producer Jesse Harris is an accomplished singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer of artists all over the world. Best known for having written and played guitar on Norah Jones’ breakout hit “Don’t Know Why” (for which he won the 2003 Grammy Award for Song Of The Year), he has also had his songs recorded by numerous other artists, including Smokey Robinson, Willie Nelson, Cat Power, Solomon Burke, and Emmylou Harris.… read more »
Uri Hasson Associate Professor, Department of Psychology and the Neuroscience Institute Peretsman-Scully Hall, Princeton University Uri Hasson grew up in Jerusalem. As an undergrad he studied philosophy and cognitive sciences at the Hebrew University. He completed his Ph.D. in Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute in Israel and was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU before moving to Princeton.… read more »
Michael Hecht Professor of Chemistry, Princeton University Michael Hecht is a Professor of Chemistry at Princeton and holds affiliated appointments in the Department of Molecular Biology and the Institute for Integrative Genomics. His research is at the interface of chemistry and biology. Specifically, his lab works in protein design and synthetic biology, as well as on the molecular underpinnings of Alzheimer’s disease.… read more »
Reuben Hersh Professor emeritus, University of New Mexico Reuben Hersh had a bachelor’s degree in English Lit and four years experience as a second class machinist before his Ph D in math at NYU under Peter Lax. He researched partial differential equations, while teaching math at the University of New Mexico for 40 years.… read more »
Elizabeth Hess Elizabeth Hess is the author of two books on animals. The first, Lost and Found: Dogs, Cats and Everyday Heroes was published by Harcourt Brace (1998). The second, Nim Chimpsky: The Chimp Who Would be Human was published by Bantam Books (2008).… read more »
James Higham Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology, New York University James Higham is an Assistant Professor of Biological Anthropology at New York University. His research interests lie in sexual selection and communication, and he explores primate signaling behavior from genetic, neuroendocrine, behavioral, and morphological perspectives. Dr. Higham has many on-going projects, ranging from fieldwork on communication systems in several species of macaques, guenons and baboons, to research on game theoretic signaling models and the computational modeling of primate perception.… read more »
Daniel Hill Daniel Hill is an abstract painter and sound artist whose work has been included in numerous exhibitions exploring the relationship between painting, sound, and science. Recent exhibitions include: Brattleboro Museum of Art (2016/17), NurtureArt (2016/17), Holland Tunnel Gallery- Greece (2016), Pace University (2015), Margret Thatcher Projects (2014), and McKenzie Fine Art (2012, 2013).… read more »
Laura Hirshbein Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Laura Hirshbein is professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan. She completed her MD and psychiatry residency at the University of Michigan, and also completed a PhD in the history of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century was published by Rutgers University Press in 2009.… read more »
Alan Hirshfeld Professor of Physics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Alan Hirshfeld is Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory. He is the author of Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes,and the forthcoming book Seeing the Light: How Astronomers Discovered the Modern Universe.… read more »
Erik Hoel Erik Hoel received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University. His family owns Jabberwocky Books, an independent bookstore anchored for more than 40 years in Newburyport MA. He is the co-founder of YHouse, a non-profit here in New York City that hosts events which bring together artists and scientists.… read more »
Yonina Hoffman Assistant Professor, English, US Merchant Marine Academy Yonina Hoffman is an Assistant Professor of English at the US Merchant Marine Academy. Yonina’s research applies systems theory and phenomenology to 20th century literature and the global systems novel. Yonina’s first book, The Voices of David Foster Wallace, used concepts from narrative theory, rhetoric, and phenomenology to to examine the experience of reading through novelistic progression and narrative “voice.” … read more »
Amy Holman Amy Holman is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet and a literary consultant. Her collection, Wrens Fly Through This Opened Window was described by one reviewer as “part freak show, part searing insight”. She is also the author of four poetry chapbooks, including the prizewinning Wait For Me, I’m Gone, from Dream Horse Press.… read more »
Rob Hopkins Professor of Philosophy, New York University View Papers / Presentations » Rob Hopkins is a philosopher at New York University who works mostly in the philosophy of mind and aesthetics. He’s recently finished a book, The Profile of Imagining (forthcoming, OUP), on the sensory imagination, relating it to other forms of imagining, to perception and to episodic memory.… read more »
John Horgan Science Journalist; Director of the Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of Technology John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey. A former senior writer atScientific American (1986-1997), he has also written for The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post,The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Slate, Discover,The London Times, The Times Literary Supplement, New Scientist, and other publications around the world.… read more »
Alexandra Horowitz Professor of Psychology, Barnard College Dr. Alexandra Horowitz is a researcher and professor at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches seminars in canine cognition, creative nonfiction writing, and audio storytelling. As Senior Research Fellow, she heads the Dog Cognition Lab at Barnard, studying the behavior and mind of owned dogs.… read more »
Richard Howarth Professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College Editor-in-Chief, Ecological Economics Rich Howarth is an environmental and ecological economist who studies the interplay between economic analysis and the ecological, moral, and social dimensions of environmental governance. His topical interests focus on the valuation and management of ecosystem services; theories of discounting and intergenerational justice; climate stabilization policy; the ethical foundations of voluntary pro-environmental behaviors; and the relationship between economic growth, environmental quality, and human well-being as mediated by endogenous social norms.… read more »
Marie Howe 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State Marie Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic.… read more »
Steve Hsu Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University Steve Hsu is Vice-President for Research and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Michigan State University, where he oversees over $500 million in annual research expenditures. Educated at Caltech and Berkeley, he was a Harvard Junior Fellow and held professorships at Yale University and the University of Oregon.… read more »
Gerald Hurowitz Associate Director, The Helix Center Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center Gerald Hurowitz is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and on faculty for the past 30 years at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. He has a full-time clinical practice in psychopharmacology and neuropsychiatry in New York City. Dr. Hurowitz is a founder and Chief Medical Officer at M3 Information, an information technology company that focuses on mental health integration into primary care.… read more »
Siri Hustvedt Author, Essayist Siri Hustvedt is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; seven novels, The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American, The Summer Without Men, The Blazing World, and Memories of the Future, as well as five essay collections, Women, Mothers, Fathers, and Others; A Plea for Eros; Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting; Living, Thinking, Looking; A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women and a work of nonfiction: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves.… read more »
Piet Hut Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study Piet Hut has been Professor of Astrophysics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, since 1985, where he is currently the Head of the Program for Interdisciplinary Studies. One focus of Piet Hut’s research is computational astrophysics, in particular multiscale multiphysics simulations of dense stellar systems. … read more »
Noah Hutton Noah Hutton is a film director and founder of the website The Beautiful Brain. He has presented on art and neuroscience at the Venice Biennale, Impakt Festival, Society for Neuroscience, Wellcome Collection, Rubin Museum of Art, and elsewhere. In 2015 he was named a Salzburg Global Fellow in Neuroscience & Art, and created Brain City, a multi-platform installation in Times Square commissioned by the Times Square Arts Alliance.… read more »