18 Helix Center participants from Yale University spanning History & Cultural Studies, Literature & Writing, Neuroscience & Cognition, Philosophy & Ethics, Physics & Cosmology, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Social Sciences. Notable speakers include Priyamvada Natarajan, R. John Williams, Jonathan Kramnick, and 15 others.
Alex Kwan
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Published in Nature (2025) showing psilocybin's lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and...
Christopher Wood
Carnegie Professor, History of Art; Visiting Professor, Department of German
History & Cultural S
David Scott Kastan
George M. Bodman Professor Emeritus of English
First American General Editor of The Arden Shakespeare; author of 'Shakespeare and the Shapes of...
Deborah Coen
Professor of History and Chair of the Program in History of Science and Medicine
Guggenheim in research data
Gabbrielle Johnson
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Published 'The Structure of Bias' and other influential papers on implicit bias in computational...
Gilbert Rose
Member of the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities
Literature & Writing
James Berger
Senior Lecturer in American Studies and English, Yale University
Literature & Writing
Jeffrey Alexander
Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University
ISA Vice-President, Founder cult
Jonathan Kramnick
Maynard Mack Professor of English
Director of the Lewis Walpole Library (2015-2024); author of 'Criticism and Truth: On Method in...
Martin Hägglund
Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities, Yale University
No known major awards
Nancy Princenthal
Writer
Literature & Writing
Paul Fry
William Lampson Professor of English, Yale University
Literature & Writing
Priyamvada Natarajan
Professor of Astronomy and of Physics; Director of the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities; Chair of the Division of Astrophysics of the American Physical Society
Dannie Heineman Prize (2025), TIME
R. John Williams
Associate Professor, English, Film and Media
Literature & Writing
Richard Deming
Director of Creative Writing and Senior Lecturer in English
Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America (2009); John P. Birkelund Fellow...
Sam McDougle
Assistant Professor of Psychology
2026 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award; PhD from Princeton University;...
Sarah Demers
Chair and Horace D. Taft Professor of Physics
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2023); Department of Energy Early Career Award (2011); US...
Tracey Meares
Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law, Yale University
MacArthur Foundation Board · Founding Director, Justice Collaboratory at Yale