Maria Hsiuya Loh, an internationally recognized expert in the field of early modern Italian art, has joined the Institute for Advanced Study as Professor in the School of Historical Studies. Loh is best known for her work on Venetian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Bhargav Bhatt, an internationally renowned expert in arithmetic algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, has joined the Institute for Advanced Study as Fernholz Joint Professor in the School of Mathematics.
Michail “Misha” Tsodyks, a world-leading theoretical
neuroscientist, will join the Faculty of the School of Natural
Sciences as C.V. Starr Professor in the Simons Center for Systems
Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective July 1,
2019...
Jacob Lurie, who has made transformative contributions to
mathematics through his work on derived algebraic geometry and
infinity categories, will join the Faculty of the School of
Mathematics at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective July
1...
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, widely recognized for her intellectual
range and interdisciplinary accomplishments in the field of
Medieval Studies, will join the Faculty of the School of Historical
Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, effective...
James M. Stone, a world-renowned computational astrophysicist,
whose research is focused on fluid dynamics—in particular numerical
solutions to the equations of magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) in an
astrophysical context—has been appointed to the Faculty...
Alondra Nelson, an acclaimed sociologist, author, and researcher
who explores questions in science, technology, and social
inequality, has been appointed Professor and Harold F. Linder Chair
in the School of Social Science at the Institute for...
Akshay Venkatesh, a
world-leading mathematician who has made fundamental contributions
to various fields of mathematics, working in particular at the
intersection of analytic number theory, algebraic number theory,
and representation theory, has...
Myles W. Jackson, an internationally renowned historian of
science whose breadth of research extends from molecular biology
and physics to intellectual property and privacy issues, has been
appointed to the Faculty of the School of Historical...