53 Helix Center participants from Columbia University spanning Biology & Medicine, History & Cultural Studies, Journalism & Media, Literature & Writing, Mathematics & Computer Science, Neuroscience & Cognition, Philosophy & Ethics, Physics & Cosmology, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Social Sciences. Notable speakers include Kenneth Miller, Michael Harris, Siri Hustvedt, and 50 others.
Akeel Bilgrami
Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Award (Wikipedia): Infosys Prize jury member (2
Alex Abdo
Litigation Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University
Led landmark First Amendment litigation including challenge to Trump's blocking of Twitter critics;...
Alice Quinn
Executive Director, Poetry Society of America
Literature & Writing
Allison Avery
Vice President of Inclusion and Community, Dow Jones; Jungian Psychoanalyst
Biology & Medicine
Alma Steingart
Assistant Professor, History
History & Cultural S
Andrea Califano
Clyde and Helen Wu Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology, Columbia University
NAM Member · AAAS Fellow
Anis Dizdarevic
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology; Director of Regional and Orthopedic Anesthesia
Castle Connolly America's Top Doctor in Pain Medicine; Harvard Medical School fellowship; lectured...
Caleb Scharf
Director of Astrobiology
Award (Wikipedia): Carl Sagan Medal (2022)
Carol Rovane
Professor of Philosophy
Philosophy & Ethics
Cathy O'Neil
Founder, ORCAA (algorithmic auditing company); Author; Data Scientist
NYT bestseller 'Weapons of
Claudia Lugo-Candelas
Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurobiology (in Psychiatry)
Named Bender-Fishbein Scholar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2020); funded by NIH and NARSAD;...
Daniel Posner
Assistant Clinical Professor, Psychiatry; Associate Editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry
No known major awards
Daphna Shohamy
Associate Professor of Psychology
Psychology & Psychoa
David Freedberg
Professor of Art History; Director of Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America
Slade Professor at Oxford, Pionee
David Kipping
Associate Professor of Astronomy
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2018); NASA Sagan Fellowship; Harvard Menzel Fellowship
David Sulzer
Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology, Pharmacology, and at the School of the Arts
NIH MERIT Award, Pioneer in dopamine
Dennis Yi Tenen
Associate Professor, English & Comparative Literature
Literature & Writing
Dhananjay Jagannathan
Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Director of Graduate Studies, Classical Studies Program
Author of 'Aristotle's Practical Epistemology' (Oxford University Press); PhD in Philosophy from...
Dorothea von Mücke
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Other/Interdisciplin
Elias Dakwar
Associate Professor of Psychiatry
NIH K23 award for ketamine-mindfulness research in cocaine use disorders; demonstrated that...
Elise Giuliano
Lecturer in Political Science; Director of Graduate Studies, MA Program, Harriman Institute
Author of 'Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics' (Cornell UP, 2011);...
Eric Kandel
University Professor, Columbia University
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)
Eric R. Marcus
Director, Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research; Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Columbia University President's Teaching Award; Roeske Teaching Award (American Psychiatric...
Ernesto Reuben
Assistant Professor of Management
Other/Interdisciplin
Frances Pritchett
Professor of Modern Indic Languages
Other/Interdisciplin
Gil Eyal
Professor of Sociology
Guggenheim in research data
Graciela Chichilnisky
Professor, Economics and Statistics, Columbia University
Created the carbon market mechan
Jacqueline Gottlieb
Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University
Neuroscience & Cogni
Janice Edwards
Associate Professor, School of Social Work
Ten years as Clinical Director of the FBI's Emergency Psychiatric Response Team; MSW from Howard...
Jean Valentine
Poet
National Book Award for Po
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele
Mortimer D. Sackler, M.D. Associate Professor of Psychiatry
Biology & Medicine
John Murray
Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences; Associate Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry
Gregg L. Engles Associate Professorship at Dartmouth; research in computational models of...
Kenneth Miller
Professor of Neuroscience, Columbia University
Neuroscience & Cogni
Larry Amsel
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Co-director of Trauma Studies and Services Division at NYSPI following 9/11; organized first APA...
Lydia Goehr
Fred & Fannie Mack Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
No known major awards
Marc Van De Mieroop
Professor, History
History & Cultural S
Mark Hansen
Professor of Journalism; Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation
Eight patents; 60+ published papers; former Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories; prior...
Martha Welch
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of the Nurture Science Program in Pediatrics; Director of the BrainGut Initiative in Developmental Neuroscience
No known major awards
Maura Spiegal
Co-Director, Division of Narrative Medicine; Senior Lecturer, Department of English & Comparative Literature
History & Cultural S
Michael First
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, Columbia University
Biology & Medicine
Michael Harris
Professor of Mathematics
Sophie Germain Prize (2006); Clay Research Award with Richard Taylor (2007); Member of the National...
Patricia Dailey
Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship; translator of Giorgio Agamben's The Time That Remains...
Paul Linton
NOMIS Foundation Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies; Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience
NOMIS Foundation Fellowship; Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia; author...
Ralph Wharton
Professor of Psychiatry; Attending Psychiatrist
Other/Interdisciplin
Raul Rabadan
Associate Professor in the Departments of Systems Biology and Biomedical Informatics
Pioneer in computational cancer b
Richard Betts
Leo A. Shifrin Professor Emeritus of War and Peace Studies
Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association for best book in political...
Robert Klitzman
Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University
Guggenheim Fellowship, Russell Sage
Saeed Tavazoie
Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Biophysics, and Systems Biology
Biology & Medicine
Siri Hustvedt
Author, Essayist; Lecturer in Psychiatry
Princess of Asturias Award in L
Stephen Dames
Theodore Kahan Professor of Humanities; Paul Brooke Program Chair for Literature Humanities
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; PROSE Award in Literature (Association of American...
Stuart Firestein
Professor of Neuroscience; Former Chair of Department of Biological Sciences
No known major awards
W. Craig Tomlinson
Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Other/Interdisciplin
W. Warner Burke
Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education
Fellow of the Academy of Management, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for...