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Marco Bagnara (Camillo De Lellis’Group)
Affiliation: Research Associate (Postdoc), Imperial College London 
Email: [email protected]
Research Topic: Stochastic fluid dynamics, regularisation by noise, stochastic PDEs.
Biography: Marco Bagnara received his PhD in September 2025 at Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, under the supervision of Professors Mario Maurelli and Franco Flandoli. He is now a Research Associate at Imperial College London working in the group of Professor Michele Coti Zelati.

Daniel Boutros (Camillo De Lellis’ Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc, Institute for Advanced Study
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Analysis of Partial Differential Equations, Mathematical Fluid Mechanics, Geophysical Flows
Biography: Daniel Boutros completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2026, under the supervision of Professor Edriss S. Titi. He obtained his Bachelor's degrees from the University of Groningen, and his Master's degree from the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in the analysis of PDEs and mathematical fluid mechanics, in particular in relation to the study of hydrodynamic turbulence and geophysical flows.

James Beattie (James Stone’s group)
Affiliation: Hubble Fellow, Postdoc, Institute for Advanced Study
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Newtonian and relativistic fluid dynamics, plasma physics, hydrodynamical and magnetohydrodynamical turbulence, supersonic turbulence and shocks, magnetic dynamos, magnetic reconnection, non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics, high-performance computing. 
Biography: James Beattie completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2024, where he constructed and performed the largest turbulence simulations in the world to understand the statistics of the interstellar medium turbulence. After his PhD James held a joint position between Princeton University and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, where he worked on blast-wave driven turbulence and neutron star dynamos. James is now a NASA Hubble Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study

Michele Caselli (Camillo De Lellis’Group)
Affiliation: Postdoctoral, University of Sydney, supported by the Anthony and Sharon Lee Foundation, and a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. 
Email: [email protected]
Research Topic: His research lies at the interface of geometric analysis, elliptic PDEs, and the calculus of variations. 
Biography: He received his PhD in Mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, after completing his Master's degree at ETH Zurich. 

Emily Casey (Max Engelstein's Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc associate, University of Minnesota
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: Geometric measure theory, Potential theory, Harmonic analysis
Biography: Emily Casey is a Dunham Jackson Assistant Professor (postdoc) at the University of Minnesota under the mentorship of Max Engelstein. She received her PhD in June 2025 from the University of Washington, under the supervision of Tatiana Toro and Bobby Wilson. In her thesis she studied characterizations of rough domains and measures via 20 geometric functions and singular integral operators. Education: PhD in Mathematics, University of Washington, 2025

Minki Cho (Camillo De Lellis' Group & Charles Fefferman’s Group)
Affiliation: Graduate Student, Princeton University
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: Geometric Measure Theory
Biography: Minki Cho is currently a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Camillo De Lellis. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Seoul National University. His research interest is in Geometric Measure Theory.

Jaume de Dios Pont (Svitlana Mayboroda’s Group)
Affiliation: Faculty Fellow, NYU Center for data science.
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Problems that combine mathematics with other areas, such as physics and theoretical computer science.
Biography: Jaume is a Faculty Fellow at the NYU Center for data science. He completed his PhD in Harmonic analysis at UCLA in 2023, under the supervision of Terence Tao, working in Fourier Analysis and its applications. Until December 2025 he was a postdoctoral researcher at ETH, working with Svitlana Mayboroda on problems in Spectral theory. He is generally interested in Harmonic analysis, PDE, and high dimensional geometry, and in using computational & machine-assisted methods to solve these types of problems. 

Hedong Hou (Svitlana Mayboroda’s Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc, ETH Zürich
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Harmonic Analysis, Partial Differential Equations, and Mathematical Fluid Dynamics. 
Biography: Hedong Hou obtained his Ph.D. in 2025 from Université Paris-Saclay, under the supervision of Pascal Auscher. In 2025-2026, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Westlake University, working with Alexey Cheskidov. He is interested in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical fluid dynamics, particularly in the problems related to regularity and uniqueness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes Equations.

Alon Gurman (Blakesley Burkhart's group)
Affiliation: Postdoc, Rutgers University
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: ISM and Galaxy Evolution
Biography: Alon got his Bachelor's and Doctoral degrees from Tel Aviv University where he was advised by Amiel Sternberg. He uses both analytic models and simulations to test our understanding of the ISM, star formation, and their interplay.

Madisen Johnson (Blakesley Burkhart's Group)
Affiliation: PhD Student, Rutgers University
Email:  [email protected]
Research topic: ISM, Molecular Cloud Evolution, and Star Formation
Biography: Madisen is currently a PhD candidate at Rutgers University, advised by Professor Blakesley Burkhart. She obtained a Bachelor of Science in Astronomy-Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research interests center on the physics of the interstellar medium and the processes governing star formation. She studies the formation and evolution of molecular clouds and molecular hydrogen using numerical simulations, theoretical models, and observations. More broadly, she is interested in understanding how turbulence, radiation, and gas chemistry shape the lifecycle of molecular clouds and ultimately regulate star formation.

Ali AlHadi Kalout (Raúl Jiménez's Group)
Affiliation: PhD student, ICCUB
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Theoretical cosmology, Observational cosmology, Physics informed neural networks (PINNs). 
Biography: I am a Lebanese PhD student at the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, University of Barcelona (ICCUB). I did my undergraduate and graduate degrees at the American University of Beirut (AUB). My research interests include theoretical and observational cosmology, as well as physics-informed neural networks (PINNs). 

Kosio Karchev (Raúl Jiménez's Group)
Affiliation: Research Fellow (postdoc), ICCUB
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Cosmology; machine learning; inference (neural, simulation-based, Bayesian)
Biography: Originally from Bulgaria, I studied physics in Bath, UK and Amsterdam, NL before completing my PhD in SISSA, Trieste, Italy, on machine-learning applications to supernova cosmology. My research revolves around the development of rigorous and scalable methods for Bayesian inference based on neural networks to tackle challenging inference problems from large, detailed, and unconventionally structured data in cosmology, astrophysics, physics, and mathematics.

E Koenig (Max Engelstein's Group)
Affiliation: graduate student at the University of Minnesota.
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and partial differential equations.
Biography: E Koenig is currently a Ph. D student at the University of Minnesota advised by Max Engelstein. They obtained a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from St. Olaf College. Their research interests include harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory, and partial differential equations.

Lachlan Lancaster (David Spergel's Group)
Affiliation: Flatiron Research Fellow, Flatiron Institute
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Computational Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics
Biography: Lachlan Lancaster completed his PhD in 2022 at Princeton University where he studied the effect of turbulent mixing on the dynamics of bubbles blown by stellar winds in star forming regions. From 2022 to 2025 Lachlan was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows working at Columbia University. Lachlan joined the Flatiron Institute in September of 2025.

Eugenia Malinnikova (Charles Fefferman’s Group)
Affiliation: Full Professor, Stanford University
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Harmonic analysis, elliptic PDE, and potential theory. Recently she was studying unique continuation properties of solutions of elliptic PDEs and their applications to Laplace eigenfunctions, she is also interested in problems concerning solutions of discrete elliptic equations.
Biography: Malinnikova earned her PhD in 1999 from St. Petersburg State University under the supervision of Victor Havin. She then joined the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. In 2018–19, she was a von Neumann Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Since fall of 2019, Malinnikova is a full professor at Stanford University. She received the Clay Research Award in 2017 jointly with Aleksandr Logunov and was invited speaker at the ICM in Rio de Janeiro in 2018. 

Alberto Pacati (Svitlana Mayboroda’s Group)
Affiliation: Graduate Student, ETH Zürich
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: harmonic analysis, geometric measure theory and partial differential equations. 
Biography: Alberto Pacati is a PhD student at ETH Zürich under the supervision of Svitlana Mayboroda. He obtained a Master's degree in Mathematics from Università di Pisa.

Leonid Sarieddine (Raul Jiminez's group)
Affiliation: PhD student, ICCUB
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Theoretical cosmology, observational cosmology, PINNs, Fluid dynamics 
Biography: I am of Lebanese-Russian heritage. My research interests include theoretical aspects of early-universe physics, in particular inflation. I also work in observational cosmology, using Bayesian inference to constrain cosmological parameters, with a focus on primordial non-Gaussianity. In addition, I am interested in applying physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to problems in fluid dynamics.

Anna Skorobogatova (Svitlana Mayboroda’s Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc, Institute for Theoretical Sciences, ETH Zürich
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: regularity for geometric variational problems and PDE problems
Biography: I am broadly interested in existence and regularity questions in geometric analysis, geometric measure theory and the calculus of variations. This includes questions concerning regularity, structure and classification for minimal surfaces and solutions to certain free boundary problems, and, more recently, regularity of solutions to the advection-diffusion (tracer) equation and their associated level sets.

Pau Solé (Raúl Jiménez's Group)
Affiliation: PhD student, ICCUB
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: Holography, Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), Black Holes
Biography: I'm a Ph.D. student at the University of Barcelona supervised by David Mateos and Raúl Jiménez. I obtained my Bachelor’s degree in Theoretical Physics from Queen Mary University of London and my Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. I am carrying out research in applications of Holography, PINNs in Physics and the fluid/gravity duality to study turbulent flows.

Brent Tan (Drummond Fielding's Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc at the Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Physics Department, New York University.
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Working on state-of-the-art numerical simulations of turbulent flows and scalar mixing.
Biography: Brent earned his Ph.D. in Astrophysics from UC Santa Barbara and received his undergraduate degree from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Before that, he grew up in Singapore. His research has largely centered on the physics of multiphase gas, turbulence, and feedback in galactic atmospheres.

Pedro Tarancón Álvarez (Raul Jimenez's Group)
Affiliation: PhD student at the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, University of Barcelona (ICCUB).
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: AdS/CFT, PINNs, General Relativity, Cosmology, Hydrodynamics.
Biography: Pedro Tarancón Álvarez is a PhD student in theoretical physics at the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICCUB), Universitat de Barcelona. His research focuses on holography and the AdS/CFT correspondence as frameworks to study hydrodynamics and phase transitions in strongly coupled systems. He is also deeply interested in advanced computational methods, combining analytical and numerical techniques with modern machine learning approaches to investigate complex physical phenomena.

Pablo Tejerina Pérez (Raúl Jiménez's Group)
Affiliation: PhD student, ICCUB
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: Physics Informed Neural Networks (PINNs), theoretical cosmology, holography
Biography: I was born in Madrid, where I did my bachelors degree in physics. I did my masters in university of Barcelona, where I currently work on my PhD thesis. In the last, I study theoretical cosmology, and 19 application of PINNs (Physics Informed Neural Networks) to inverse problems in holography, turbulence, and other fields of physics.

Sebastian Waeber (Raúl Jiménez's Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc, starting October 2026 at the ICCUB, currently at BGU
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Holography, Hydrodynamics and Turbulence
Biography: I obtained a double Master's degree in theoretical high energy physics and mathematics (algebraic topology) at the University of Regensburg, my home town in Germany, where I also earned a PhD in theoretical physics working on higher curvature corrections and shockwave collisions in holography. After working as a postdoc in the string theory groups at the University of Washington, the Technion, and Ben Gurion University, I will join the Institute of Cosmos Sciences at the University of Barcelona (ICCUB) as a postdoc in the fall of 2026.  My research focuses on utilizing the fluid gravity duality to study turbulent flow through the lens of gravity and geometry, more broadly using holographic techniques to answer questions about far-from-equilibrium, non-linear dynamics in strongly coupled systems and CFTs with boundaries and interfaces.

Terry Wang (Svitlana Mayboroda's Group)
Affiliation: Graduate Student, ETH Zürich
Email: [email protected]
Research Topics: Partial Differential Equations, Geometric Measure Theory
Biography: Terry is a PhD student at ETH Zürich under the supervision of Svitlana Mayboroda. He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degree in Mathematics from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Victoria Williamson (Blakesley Burkhart's Group)
Affiliation: PhD Student, Rutgers University
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Turbulence, ISM, galaxy evolution
Biography: Victoria (Tori) is currently a PhD student at Rutgers University, advised by Prof. Blakesley Burkhart. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Astrophysics from the University of Florida. Her research interests include turbulence in the interstellar medium, particularly using simulations and observational data to study star formation and galaxy evolution.

Ming-Yuan Yang (Camillo De Lellis' Group & Charles Fefferman’s Group)
Affiliation: Math PhD student at Princeton University
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: PDE, incompressible fluid equations, geometric measure theory
Biography: I am a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University, under the supervision of Prof. Camillo De Lellis. My interests lie broadly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations, particularly the incompressible fluid equations such as the Navier-Stokes 18 and Euler equations.

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Camillo Brena (Camillo De Lellis' Group)
Affiliation: Postdoc, Institute for Advanced Study,
Email: [email protected] 
Research topic: Geometric analysis and geometric measure theory
Biography: Camillo Brena received his PhD in September 2024 under the supervision of Luigi Ambrosio and Nicola Gigli, at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.

Matei Coiculescu (Camillo De Lellis' Group)
Affiliation: PhD Student, Princeton University
Email: [email protected]
Research topic: Mathematical Fluid Dynamics, Geometric Analysis, and Partial Differential Equations. Regularity and uniqueness problems related to the Navier-Stokes and Euler Equations. Riemannian geometry of Lie groups, on geometric flows on curves, and on the theory of viscosity solutions.
Biography: Matei Coiculescu is currently a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Camillo De Lellis. He obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Brown University.