Princeton
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2002) · Presidential Medal of Freedom
Columbia
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2000)
Princeton
Dirac Medal (2002) · Buckley Prize (2010)
MIT
MacArthur Fellow (2013) · Kavli Prize in Astrophysics (2024)
MIT
National Academy of Engineering · Founded Affective Computing
UCL
Most-cited neuroscientist in history (h-index 291) · FRS
NYU
The Brain Prize (2011) · Gerard Prize (2020)
NYU
Karl Spencer Lashley Award, William James
NYU
Coined 'the hard problem of consciousness' · Guggenheim Fellow
Harvard
MacArthur Fellow (2013) · Doris Duke Award
Princeton
MacArthur Fellow (2010) · PEN/Hemingway Award
Harvard
Chern Medal (2022) · National Medal of Science
Brown
National Medal of Science (2013) · NAS Member
NYU
NAS Member, Director of NYU Courant Institute
Icahn School
time100: TIME 100 Most Influential (2014)
Columbia
NIH MERIT Award, Pioneer in dopamine
Weill Cornell Medical College, New York City; PhD from Columbia University
Princess of Asturias Award in L
Columbia
Created the carbon market mechan
Columbia
NAM Member · AAAS Fellow
Kenyon College
Schmidt Sciences HAVI Grant (PI) · NIST AI Safety Institute · NEH Teaching Professorship · Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab
Yale
ISA Vice-President, Founder cult
University Of Chicago
NAS Member, Director of Kavli Institute
NYU
NYT bestselling author, Ma
University of Southern California
Pulitzer Prize, National Book A
Independent
Grammy Award winner, Multiple plati
Columbia
Guggenheim Fellowship, Russell Sage
University
Proved Kepler conjecture, Fulkerso
Independent
Jnanpith Award (2018), Dan Davi
UCL
Pioneer in psychohistory
Columbia
Pioneer in computational cancer b
Cornell Tech
ACM Fellow (2021); TED Fellow; MIT TR35; NSF CAREER Award; co-founded HealthRhythms and Dapple Health
Harvard
Pioneer in animal cognition (Ale
Notre Dame
Hausdorff Medal nominee, Leading
Princeton
Guggenheim Fellowship, Balzan Priz
New School
Major public philosopher
Columbia
Slade Professor at Oxford, Pionee
University
Trudeau Fellow, Leading bioet
Cornell
Named/endowed chair
Michigan
VP for Research at Michigan State
IBM
IBM Fellow (2020), AAAI Presid
Yale
Dannie Heineman Prize (2025), TIME
NYU
ACM Distinguished Member (2025); MIT TR35; NSF CAREER Award; Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Award
NYU
Guggenheim Fellow, Leading philosop
Centro de Estudos da História da Leitura, Lisbon
Guggenheim Fellowship, Director of
Carnegie Mellon
Chief Scientist for Obama 2012 ca
NYU
Guggenheim Fellow, Major philosophe
ORCAA; Previously: Barnard College (professor), Columbia University (Lede Program in Data Journalism founder)
NYT bestseller 'Weapons of
Mount Sinai
Defined Primary Age-Related Tauopathy (PART); identified JADE1 gene; created HistoAge AI; 4 active NIH R01/RF1 grants; 12,700+ citations
School of Visual Arts
Pioneer in Bio Art movement, Fou
Northeastern
AAAI Fellow (2023), Pioneer in net
Duke
No known major awards
Icahn School
Major science communicato
Uc Santa Barbara
Named/endowed chair
The New York Public Library
MacArthur Fellowship (2001), Bancrof
NYU
No known major awards
Columbia
Award (Wikipedia): Carl Sagan Medal (2022)
Boston University
Award (Wikipedia): Kagan Prize (2002) from Amer
University of Massachusetts Boston
Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
NYU
CRI Irvington Fellow; EMBO Fellow; Nature Genetics paper on 450M missense variant predictions
Yale
MacArthur Foundation Board · Founding Director, Justice Collaboratory at Yale
Sarah Lawrence University, New York University, and Columbia University (teaching); State Poet of New York (2008-2010)
National Book Award for Po
Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jersey
No known major awards
Princeton
No known major awards
NYU
Co-invented GRU (Gated Recurrent
NYU
Co-created NYUTron (Nature, 2023, 99th percentile altmetrics); 31+ operational AI models at NYU Langone; Ultraviolet HPC #255 on Top500 (Nov 2025)
Sarah Lawrence College
New York State Poet Laureate
NYU
No known major awards
Columbia
No known major awards
NYU
Award (Wikipedia): Hans-Kilian-Award (2015) - f
University of Texas at Dallas
Award (Wikipedia): Distinguished Professor appo
MIT
No known major awards
NYU
NYT bestseller 'Good Anxiety'
Columbia
Award (Wikipedia): Infosys Prize jury member (2
NYU Abu Dhabi
TED Fellow (2019), Alfred P. Sloan
University of Massachusetts Boston
No known major awards
Columbia
Guggenheim in research data
The New School
Guggenheim Fellowship
University Of Texas
No known major awards
Independent
No known major awards
Yale
Guggenheim in research data
Florida Atlantic Universi
No known major awards
NYU
No known major awards
Transition Network
Founder of Transition Towns m
Cornell
No known major awards
The Atlantic
No known major awards
Harvard
No known major awards
NYU
Pioneering research on neural circuits controlling aggression published in Nature, Nature Neuroscience, and Cell; cited by over 8,800 researchers
Rutgers University-Camden (MFA program faculty)
National Book Award finalist, Gugge
Princeton
11 awards/honors
University
Named/endowed chair
Princeton
No known major awards
University
No known major awards
Yale
No known major awards
Columbia
No known major awards
Georgia Institute
MIT Technology Review TR35 (35 Innovators Under 35); ASGCT Outstanding New Investigator Award; DNA barcoding work named a Top 10 Emerging Technology...
Cornell
No known major awards
Columbia
No known major awards
Columbia
No known major awards
University Of Chicago
No known major awards
Cornell
No known major awards
Notre Dame
Award (Wikipedia): Best Article Award, The Jour
Princeton
No known major awards
Smith
Award (Wikipedia): Scholar-in-Residence, Smiths
Harvard
No known major awards
Stony Brook
Philosophy & Ethics
Columbia
Neuroscience & Cogni
Columbia
Sophie Germain Prize (2006); Clay Research Award with Richard Taylor (2007); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2022); Fellow of the...
Johns Hopkins
Neuroscience & Cogni
Cornell
Physics & Cosmology
Tufts University
Neuroscience & Cogni
Rutgers
Literature & Writing
Princeton
Mathematics & Comput
CUNY Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and Adelphi University Derner Institute
Co-editor of The Lacan Tradition (Routledge, 2018); founding member of the Group for a Radical Human Science (1979) and Apres-Coup Psychoanalytic...
Smith
Creative & Performin
Harvard
Neuroscience & Cogni
Cornell
Neuroscience & Cogni
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Neuroscience & Cogni
Princeton
Physics & Cosmology
University Of Pennsylvani
Psychology & Psychoa
Princeton
Mitchell Prize for best book in art history in English for The School of Prague (1988); fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the American...
Princeton
TED speaker (TED2016); groundbreaking discovery of neural coupling between speakers and listeners during communication; research on brain...
University
Physics & Cosmology
Stony Brook
Author of Shakespearean Neuroplay (Palgrave, 2010), Building Character: The Art and Science of Casting (Michigan, 2018), and Shakespearean Futures...
Princeton
Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship; Cushing Memorial Prize in the History and Philosophy of Physics; Philosophy of Science Association Best...
CUNY
Other/Interdisciplin
Cornell
Author of Computing the Mind: How the Mind Really Works (2008), The Happiness of Pursuit (2012), and The Consciousness Revolutions: From Amoeba...
SUNY
Neuroscience & Cogni
Uc Santa Barbara
Other/Interdisciplin
Yale
Literature & Writing
Barnard College
Author of Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, a #1 New York Times Bestseller that remained on the list for 64 weeks; founder of the...
Hunter College
Psychology & Psychoa
Skidmore
Other/Interdisciplin
University of Pennsylvania
Author of We Walk: Life with Severe Autism (2020) and Chasing the Intact Mind (2023); Vice President of the National Council on Severe Autism; widely...
University Of Pennsylvani
Neuroscience & Cogni
Mannes School of Music
Creative & Performin
NYU
Guggenheim Fellowship (2018); OBIE Award (2013); fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute, the MacDowell Colony, and the Foundation for Contemporary...
University
Other/Interdisciplin
University Of Texas
Psychology & Psychoa
Lenox Hill Hospital
Author of The Spectrum of Hope: An Optimistic and New Approach to Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias; neurologic consultant to the NFL Players...
Independent (based near Milan)
Literature & Writing
Boston University
Author of Quantum Information (Springer, 2007), Entanglement, Information, and the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (Springer, 2009), and Quantum...
Stanford
Other/Interdisciplin
Columbia
Neuroscience & Cogni
The New School
Creative & Performin
Princeton
Literature & Writing
Princeton
Mathematics & Comput
Stony Brook
Physics & Cosmology
Northwestern
Psychology & Psychoa
University of Maryland Sc
University of Maryland, Baltimore Researcher of the Year (2024); Dubner Award and Patrick Wall International Award from the International Association...
Columbia
History & Cultural S
Washington University
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2015) for outstanding contributions to the physics of dense matter; Ph.D. from Harvard University under...
Independent
Author of The Mighty Franks (memoir, 2018), What is Missing (novel, 2020), and One Hundred Saturdays (2022); One Hundred Saturdays won two Jewish...
Johns Hopkins
Author of The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock's Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control (2001) and The Science of Human Perfection (2012);...
American Museum of Natural History
Physics & Cosmology
Yale
Fellow of the American Physical Society (2023); Department of Energy Early Career Award (2011); US ATLAS Fellowship; co-author of 'Physics and Dance'...
Eth Zurich
Elected Honorary Member of the International Association of Analytical Psychology; President of the Society for Mind-Matter Research; Editor of the...
Rutgers
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2008); Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2008); President of the Society for...
University
Other/Interdisciplin
Cold Canyon AI
Other/Interdisciplin
Planetary Science Institu
Biology & Medicine
Columbia
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2018); NASA Sagan Fellowship; Harvard Menzel Fellowship
Independent
Creative & Performin
Independent
Literature & Writing
Simon Fraser
Mathematics & Comput
St. John's College
Creative & Performin
Yale
Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America (2009); John P. Birkelund Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin (2012)
Princeton
Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory (1967, shared with James Ax); Kochen-Specker Theorem; Conway-Kochen Free Will Theorem
Dartmouth
Guggenheim Fellowship; Mellon Foundation Fellowship; Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; New York Times Best Book of the Year (2006) for 'Happiness: A...
Yale
Literature & Writing
Notre Dame
Philosophy & Ethics
American Museum of Natural History
History & Cultural S
Independent (formerly Senior Editor at Art in America; has taught at Princeton University, Yale University, Bard College, School of Visual Arts, and Institute of Fine Arts at NYU)
Literature & Writing
Harvard
History & Cultural S
Vanderbilt
George Perkins Marsh Prize (for 'The Light-Green Society'); Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching; Ellen Gregg Ingalls...
MIT
Honorary Professor at University of Cologne; Honorary Professor at Jilin University (China); Founder and Chief Creative Officer of galaxyadvisors
Princeton
Author of 'Shakespeare's Tragic Art' (The New Yorker Best Books of 2024); former Head of Graduate Studies for the Humanities Division and Director of...
Brown
Neuroscience & Cogni
Novartis Institute
Biology & Medicine
University
Neuroscience & Cogni
Uc Irvine
Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (2011); DFG Heisenberg Fellowship; Member of the Board of Directors, American Philosophical Association;...
Cornell
Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine; Elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation; Elected member of the...
Northeastern
Philosophy & Ethics
Bard
National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award; Wallace Fellowship at Villa I Tatti (Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies);...
Indiana University
Other/Interdisciplin
University
Israel Brain Technologies Mathematical Neuroscience Prize ($100,000, 2015); Sloan Fellow; SIAM Fellow; creator of XPPAUT software
Columbia
Gregg L. Engles Associate Professorship at Dartmouth; research in computational models of neuropsychiatric disorders
Complutense University
Other/Interdisciplin
Messiah
Developer of the Fine-Tuning for Discoverability Argument; published with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Blackwell, and...
University Of Pennsylvani
Mathematics & Comput
Cornell
Founded the Cornell Bioacoustics Research Program; published over 200 papers; pioneered passive acoustic monitoring of endangered North Atlantic...
Monell Chemical Senses Ce
Other/Interdisciplin
University
Author of two monographs with Palgrave and Cambridge University Press; editor of two scholarly special journal issues on Stanley Cavell and...
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Morris D. Forkosch Prize for outstanding first book in intellectual history; Merle Curti and Vilas Borghesi Distinguished Achievement Professor
CUNY
Literature & Writing
NYU
Fulbright Research Fellow; Visiting Professor of Linguistics at University of Paris; recognition on the Linguistics Board of the New York Academy of...
Rutgers
Other/Interdisciplin
Princeton
Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellowship; publication in Nature Neuroscience ('The Brain Adapts to Dishonesty'); Editorial Board member of Nature...
Indiana University
Philosophy & Ethics
NYU
Published in Oxford University Press and Springer on philosophy of chemistry; contributor to 'What Is A Chemical Element?' (Oxford, 2020) and...
the Austen Riggs Center
Former Medical Director/CEO of the Austen Riggs Center; Associate Clinical Professor at Columbia University and Yale Child Study Center; Head of the...
Stony Brook
Harvard BA Summa Cum Laude (1961); pioneer in magnetic monopole research; co-author of 'The Quantum Moment' (W.W. Norton); second of three...
Yale
History & Cultural S
Columbia University
Literature & Writing
Columbia
Ten years as Clinical Director of the FBI's Emergency Psychiatric Response Team; MSW from Howard University; PhD from National Catholic School of...
University
Other/Interdisciplin
Rutgers
Mathematics & Comput
Independent
BA in English from University of Notre Dame; MA from Leeds University in Anglo-Irish Literature; co-editor of 'The Irish in America' (companion to...
Columbia
Philosophy & Ethics
NYU
Director of the NYU Langone Health Center for Precision Medicine in Alcohol Use Disorder and PTSD; former President of the International Society for...
Yale
Director of the Lewis Walpole Library (2015-2024); author of 'Criticism and Truth: On Method in Literary Studies' (Chicago, 2023); 'Paper Minds'...
Yale
Published in Nature (2025) showing psilocybin's lasting action requires pyramidal cell types and 5-HT2A receptors; classified psychedelics based on...
CUNY
2024 American Astronomical Society Education Prize; AAS Legacy Fellow (2020); President of the Astronomical Society of New York; 2001 AIP Science...
Columbia
Named Bender-Fishbein Scholar in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (2020); funded by NIH and NARSAD; PhD in clinical psychology from University of...
Harvard
2009 William Thierry Preyer Award for Excellence in Research on Human Development; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2015); APA...
Harvard
Pioneering MRI research demonstrating neuroplasticity changes from mindfulness training; TEDxCambridge speaker (2011); research featured at the...
Yale
First American General Editor of The Arden Shakespeare; author of 'Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time,' 'Shakespeare After Theory,' 'Shakespeare and...
Stanford
Created ImageNet (14+ million labeled images); Time Person of the Year (2025); former Chief Scientist of AI/ML at Google Cloud; co-founder of AI4ALL;...
Columbia
Other/Interdisciplin
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
2015 Adorno Prize; Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2017); curated major exhibitions at Centre Georges-Pompidou, Museo Reina Sofia, and...
Columbia
Biology & Medicine
Columbia
Biology & Medicine
Columbia
National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; PROSE Award in Literature (Association of American Publishers); Columbia Presidential Teaching Award...
Princeton
Literature & Writing
Columbia
NIH K23 award for ketamine-mindfulness research in cocaine use disorders; demonstrated that single-dose ketamine plus behavioral therapy promotes...
Purdue University
Literature & Writing
Eugene Lang College of the New School (former); Trinity School in Manhattan (former); Morningside Heights Library (ongoing poetry workshop since 2013)
Literature & Writing
UCL
Author of 'Hyperboles: The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought' (Harvard UP, 2010) and 'Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of...
Columbia
Psychology & Psychoa
Columbia
Literature & Writing
Columbia
Author of 'Aristotle's Practical Epistemology' (Oxford University Press); PhD in Philosophy from University of Chicago (2017); teaches Literature...
Columbia
Other/Interdisciplin
Princeton
Other/Interdisciplin
Columbia
Author of 'Constructing Grievance: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics' (Cornell UP, 2011); Director of MARS-REERS Program and Program on...
University of Virginia
Author of 'The Minority Body: A Theory of Disability' (Oxford UP, 2016) and 'Health Problems: Philosophical Puzzles About the Nature of Health'...
Independent
Author of 'The Runaway Wife,' 'The Dressmaker,' and 'A Northern Light in Provence' (2024); Brown University (honors in Comparative Literature);...
Boston University
Mathematics & Comput
Columbia
Biology & Medicine
Columbia
Eight patents; 60+ published papers; former Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories; prior professor at UCLA; BS in Applied Math from UC...
Princeton
Created one of the first de novo designed proteins (Felix); discovered the first known de novo protein that catalyzes quantum dot synthesis;...
Harvard
Niclas Oberg Life Watch Award (2016); Leenaards Award (2010); pioneering fMRI research on migraine aura and autism neuroscience
Columbia
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship; translator of Giorgio Agamben's The Time That Remains (Stanford, 2005); co-founder of the University Seminar...
Clinical and consulting practice in central Vermont
Literature & Writing
Princeton
Creative & Performin
Columbia
Fellow of the Academy of Management, Association for Psychological Science, and Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology; Diplomate in...
NYU
Elected Fellow of the Econometric Society; Fellow of NBER and CEPR; co-editor of the Handbook of Financial Economics
Poetry Society of America; Columbia University (Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of the Arts)
Literature & Writing
NYU
Academic Vice President of the Mises Institute; editor of the Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics; Congressional testimony on monetary policy
NYU
Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); author of Introduction to Industrial Organization (MIT Press)
Cornell
Biology & Medicine
Rutgers
C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (2013); Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility Section Distinguished Book Award...
Columbia
NOMIS Foundation Fellowship; Presidential Scholar in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia; author of The Perception and Cognition of Visual Space...
NYU
John Ben Snow Foundation Prize (North American Conference on British Studies) for The Invention of the Oral
Departments of Neurobiology and Otolaryngology, Center for Pain Research, University of Pittsburgh
Literature & Writing
Cornell
Researcher of the Year, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society; NCI Program Project Grant for Mechanism-Based Targeting of Mantle Cell Lymphoma ($9M+);...
Cornell
Biology & Medicine
Columbia
History & Cultural S
Boston College
Literature & Writing
Columbia
Led landmark First Amendment litigation including challenge to Trump's blocking of Twitter critics; Yale College and Harvard Law School graduate
NYU
Author of Cartesian Poetics: The Art of Thinking (University of Chicago Press, 2020); coeditor of the Thinking Literature series
Rockefeller University
Other/Interdisciplin
Cornell
Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Training and Supervising Analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute; member...
Northwestern
Pioneer in fMRI-based pain research; first to identify grey matter changes related to chronic back pain (2004); first to describe resting state...
Columbia
Columbia University President's Teaching Award; Roeske Teaching Award (American Psychiatric Association); Shabshin Teaching Award (American...
NYU
Director of the Primate Reproductive Ecology and Evolution group; faculty member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
Harvard
Coined the term 'placebome'; author of Placebos (MIT Press, 2022); Deputy Commissioner of Population Health and Health Equity, Boston Public Health...
Unc
Rising Star Award, Association for Psychological Science (2013); Fellow of the Society for Experimental Social Psychology; Fellow of the Association...
Columbia
Co-director of Trauma Studies and Services Division at NYSPI following 9/11; organized first APA symposium on game theory and psychiatry (2003); Yale...
University Of Michigan
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award; dual MD (University of Michigan) and PhD in History of Medicine (Johns Hopkins); specialist in the...
CUNY
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012); Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (inaugural class, 2017); President of AWM...
NYU
Specialist in cochlear implant and auditory brainstem implant research; expertise spanning psychophysics, electrophysiology, and computational...
Board of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators; Co-chair of the Children's and Young Adult Committee of PEN American Center
Literature & Writing
University
Author of 'The Secret World of Sleep'; TEDx speaker on sleep engineering; research featured on BBC; funded by Wellcome Trust and UK research...
Columbia
Woodrow Wilson Award from the American Political Science Association for best book in political science; five prizes for his writings; served on the...
Columbia
Biology & Medicine
Boston University
Literature & Writing
New York Times
Other/Interdisciplin
Indiana University
History & Cultural S
Yale
Published 'The Structure of Bias' and other influential papers on implicit bias in computational systems; former Bersoff Faculty Fellow at NYU
Yale
Literature & Writing
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Music Director Emeritus of the NZSO; former Music Director of the Israel Symphony Orchestra Rishon LeZion; Artistic Director of the Daejeon...
Colby College
Author of 'Turning Toward Philosophy: Literary Device and Dramatic Structure in Plato's Dialogues'; cofounder and first co-director of the Ancient...
Rutgers
Her paper 'Conceivability, Possibility, and the Mind-Body Problem' (The Philosophical Review, 1999) was selected by The Philosopher's Annual as one...
Emory
Psychology & Psychoa
Yale
2026 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award; PhD from Princeton University; postdoctoral fellowship at UC Berkeley
University
Biology & Medicine
Princeton
Published in Nature Human Behaviour and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; research on misinformation funded by major grants;...
Columbia
Castle Connolly America's Top Doctor in Pain Medicine; Harvard Medical School fellowship; lectured at numerous national and international conferences...
NYU
2011 Hugh C. Atkinson Memorial Award from the American Library Association; former President of the Association of Research Libraries; Vice Chair of...
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation / Harvey Mudd College
2020 Links Lecture Award from the American Statistical Association; Phi Beta Kappa Award for educational excellence at Harvard; PhD in Mathematics...
George Washington Univers
Author of 'Acts of Will: The Life and Work of Otto Rank' (translated into German and French); editor of 'The Letters of Sigmund Freud and Otto Rank';...
CUNY
Research Associate at the American Museum of Natural History; PhD from Stanford University; specialist in environmental DNA for marine biodiversity...
University Of Chicago
Named professorship (Charles M. Harper Chair); published in PNAS, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychological Science; BA and BS...
Columbia
Other/Interdisciplin
Rutgers
Psychology & Psychoa
CUNY
History & Cultural S
American Museum of Natural History
History & Cultural S
Rutgers
Three Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Awards; American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contributions;...
Independent
Literature & Writing
Pitzer College
2004 Stirling Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology; author of 'Women, Family, and Child Care in India' and 'Cora Du Bois:...
University of Helsinki, Finland
Social Sciences
NYU
Former President of the Society for Neuroscience; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; NIMH MERIT Award; Yale's Dylan...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Literature & Writing
Texas Tech University
Philosophy & Ethics
University
Hirshfeld-Dowd Observatory at UMass Dartmouth named in his honor; Vice-Chair of the American Astronomical Society's Historical Astronomy Division;...
McMaster University
Author of 'Rationalized Epistemology: Taking Solipsism Seriously'; published 'The Deep Bodily Roots of Emotion' in Husserl Studies and 'The Basic...
Boston College
Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2012); PhD from Harvard under David Mumford; co-author of three popular mathematics books published by...
Sarah Lawrence College
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships; Lucius Littauer Award; Hewlett-Mellon grants; BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MA from Hebrew...
Icahn School
Named Exemplary Psychiatrist by the National Alliance on Mental Illness; speech-as-predictor study ranked 2nd in Mount Sinai's Ten Medical and...
Cornell
Principal Investigator for NASA Twins Study; Chair of NASA GeneLab steering committee (2018-2022); NIH Transformative R01 Award; NASA Group...
Drexel University
Mathematics & Comput
Mount Holyoke College
American Historical Association First Books Award for Media and the American Mind: From Morse to McLuhan; elected to the Society of American...
Howard University
Other/Interdisciplin
William Paterson Universi
Philosophy & Ethics
George Washington Univers
Philosophy & Ethics
Arizona State University
History & Cultural S
Rutgers
Susman Award for top teaching at Rutgers University; served as Chair of Journalism and Media Studies Department (2012-2016); promoted to Full...
Louis Armstrong Center
Founding member of the International Association for Music and Medicine; Editor in Chief of Music and Medicine journal; founded the Department of...
McMaster University
Co-editor (with Jean Wilson) of The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, vol. 18 of the Collected Works of Northrop Frye; author...
Trinity College
Outstanding Academic Title award from Choice Reviews for A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire; PhD from Harvard University (1989)
Syracuse University
APA Sanders Book Prize (2018) for The Fragmentation of Being; PhD from University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Otterbein University
History & Cultural S
Einstein College
Pioneer of the neuroscience of romantic love; directed the Laboratory for Functional Neuroanatomy and Movement Disorders for over 20 years; PhD in...
CUNY
Over 14,000 citations on Scopus; created the Self-Memory System (SMS) model of autobiographical memory; held positions at University of Bristol,...
SUNY
Other/Interdisciplin
Temple University
History & Cultural S
Independent (BFA University of British Columbia; MFA and MAT Bard College)
Poet Laureate of Queens, New York (2010-2014); Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award for the time at the end of this writing; Big Other Book...
Miami University
Degrees from Ecole Normale Superieure (Maitrise, DEA, Agregation); PhD from Vanderbilt University; author of Contingency, Time and Possibility
Rutgers-Newark (teaches English and African American Studies)
Literature & Writing
University Of Pennsylvani
Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows; PhD in History of Science from Harvard University (2015); co-editor of Abstractions and Embodiments...
Concordia University
Literature & Writing
University
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research; President of the...
Cornell
NSF CAREER Award (2023); Toyota Research Institute Young Faculty Researcher Award (2024); Best Paper Award Finalist and Best Demo Award at HRI 2024;...
University
Philosophy & Ethics
University
Royal Society Relocation Fellowship; Wellcome Trust Research Career Development Fellowship; post-doctoral work at Cambridge Cognition and Brain...
Cornell
Other/Interdisciplin
Ithaca College
APSA Prize for the Best Book on European Politics and Society for The Myth of Ethnic War: Serbia and Croatia in the 1990s; co-winner of the Best...
University
Published widely on olfactory perception and aesthetics including works such as What the Nose Doesn't Know: Non-Veridicality and Olfactory Experience...
University
Curated Visual Inquiries: Artists Inspired by Science at Pace University; published essays in The Brooklyn Rail, Interalia Magazine, and SciArt in...
University of Maryland (UMBC)
Other/Interdisciplin
University
Other/Interdisciplin
University
Co-founder of the Agalma Foundation (2010); co-author of Biology of Freedom: Neural Plasticity, Experience, and the Unconscious; member of the Comite...
Sterling Sound
Technology & Enginee
Northern Virginia Communi
Biology & Medicine
University
Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (2019); over 100 peer-reviewed publications; NIH R01 grant for autism language research; doctoral...
Linfield College
Warren Fraleigh Distinguished Scholar Award from IAPS (2021-2022); Heather Reid Distinguished Service Award from IAPS (2013); Samuel H. Graf Faculty...
Ohio State University
Psychology & Psychoa
Hofstra University
Journalism & Media
York University
Co-author of 'Out of My Skull: The Psychology of Boredom' (Harvard University Press); Principal Investigator at The Boredom Lab; pioneered the...
Uc Berkeley
Other/Interdisciplin
New York University
Director of the Neuroimaging and Visual Science Laboratory at NYU; Alcon Research Institute Young Investigator Award (2014); BrightFocus Foundation...
Memory Press
Creative & Performin
Columbia
History & Cultural S
University
Other/Interdisciplin
Independent
Nominated for the 2021 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay for 'Lapsis'; completed 'In Silico,' supported by Sandbox Films and the...
Columbia University and The New School
American Book Festival Best Book Award, North American Book Award, and Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for 'Frank Dark' (2022); Eric Hoffer Book...
New York University
Neuroscience & Cogni
Johns Hopkins
Identified TTC9B and HP1BP3 genes as predictors of postpartum depression with 85% certainty; discovered SKA2 epigenetic regulation as a marker in...
NYU
Founder of Narativ Inc. and co-founder of Purposeful Leadership; one of the original faculty in Columbia University's Narrative Medicine Master's...
Brown
History & Cultural S
Freelance (contributor to Fast Company, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, GQ)
Literature & Writing
Harper's Magazine
Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Magazine; edited 'Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage' (Columbia University Press); 'Faint...
Smith
Creative & Performin
UT MD Anderson Cancer Cen
Biology & Medicine
University of Maryland, Philip Merrill College of Journalism
Three Pulitzer Prizes at the New Orleans Times-Picayune; awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Institute for...
PROOF: Media for Social Justice
Founded PROOF: Media for Social Justice (2006); author of 'Darfur: 20 Years of War and Genocide' (multiple awards); producer of 'Rene and I,' an...
Fordham University
Co-chair of the Psychology, Culture, and Religion unit of the American Academy of Religion; faculty and supervisor at the National Institute for the...
New York City College
Two-time Lambda Literary Award winner (1990 for 'Poets for Life: 76 Poets Respond to AIDS'; 1993 for '1990'); five-time Lambda Literary Award...
Graduate School
Other/Interdisciplin
Williams
Author of seven books including 'The Hungry Mind,' 'The Stories Children Tell,' 'The End of the Rainbow,' and 'The Intellectual Lives of Children';...
University of Mary Washington
Literature & Writing
Independent
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry; finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize for 'Euphorbia' (1995); founding member of the Board of...
UConn Health Center
Internationally recognized for discoveries about inositol trisphosphate in cellular signaling; pioneering studies of photoreceptor and blood cell...
Union Theological Seminary in New York; Associate Professor, Religion Department, Columbia University
Author of 'Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished' (2010), redefining Pauline interpretation; two doctorates from Humboldt...
Genspace; Biodesign Challenge
Co-founded Genspace, a pioneering nonprofit community biology laboratory; founded the Biodesign Challenge international student competition; Woodrow...
Hanson Robotics
Creator of Sophia, the world's most famous humanoid robot and first robot granted citizenship; former Walt Disney Imagineer; PhD in Interactive Arts...
UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)
Other/Interdisciplin
NYU
Research in cryogenic fluid mechanics in classical and quantum fluids; co-author of 'Creative Turbulence: Experiments in Art and Physics' presented...
The Warburg Institute
Other/Interdisciplin
Yale University; Western New England Institute for Psychoanalysis (former faculty)
Literature & Writing
Independent
Grammy Award for Song of the Year for 'Don't Know Why' (2003); wrote five songs on Norah Jones's 'Come Away with Me'; collaborations with Melody...
WNYC and WQXR
Other/Interdisciplin
Pacifica Graduate Institu
Past-President of the International Association for Analytical Psychology; author of 'Synchronicity: Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe'...
NYU
Co-lead of the Cybersecurity for Democracy research project at NYU; developed methods to detect inauthentic content and fraudulent actors on social...
Independent
Journalism & Media
Cornell
Research in Hindi-Urdu education history, curriculum development, and teacher training; expertise in ghazal, nazm, and haiku poetic structures;...
The New School
University Distinguished Teaching Award from The New School; PhD from Princeton University (Shakespeare studies, poetry and poetics); fellowships at...
N/A (formerly Editorial Director for Doctors Without Borders USA)
Journalism & Media
American Anti-Slavery Group
Led the 'Sudan Freedom Walk,' a nearly 300-mile journey from New York City to Washington, D.C. to raise awareness about modern-day slavery; testified...
Columbia University Teachers College
Co-founded the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) in 1987; Ed.D. from Harvard University; author of numerous books including The...
Columbia University (MFA, Nonfiction Writing)
Published essay in The New York Times 'Modern Love' column at age 21; Nonfiction Writing Fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts; essays...
N/A (formerly Hall & Sloan law firm)
Literature & Writing
The Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology; Harvard Medical School; Harvard Extension School
Literature & Writing
New York University
Other/Interdisciplin
Appalachian State Univers
Co-author of Emergent Warfare in Our Evolutionary Past (2018); contributed to National Geographic Society-funded research on Homo naledi burial and...
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis; New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (Faculty); formerly Freud Professor of Psychoanalysis at the Hebrew University
Biology & Medicine
Bentley University
2026 recipient of a national communication award for bringing mathematical ideas to nonmathematical audiences (past recipients include Nate Silver,...
Medgar Evers College
Other/Interdisciplin
Rubin Museum of Art
Created the Brainwave series featuring figures like Questlove, Steven Pinker, and David Eagleman; curator of the Mandala Lab; praised by the...
Touro College
Author of The Universe of Music; teaches courses in Music Cognition, Music Therapy, Human Consciousness, and Neuropsychology; research on affective...
The New York Psychoanalyt
Psychology & Psychoa
Liverpool John Moores Uni
Founding director of the LJMU Meditation and Mindfulness Research Group; Associate Editor of Mindfulness journal; Board of Directors of the...
Founder of On Art (interdisciplinary studio)
Creative & Performin
Fordham University
Over 5,600 citations on Google Scholar; PhD from Harvard University; ScB in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University; runs the Vision and Memory...
IBM
Co-authored the most cited paper in autonomic computing (9,000+ citations); co-founded the International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) in...
Wake Forest School
Named inaugural Boswell Presidential Chair of Neuroscience and Society at Wake Forest (2025); Wells Fargo Faculty Scholar (2025); pioneered real-time...
Helix Center
PhD, Licensed Psychoanalyst (LP); International Association of Analytical Psychology (IAAP) member; served as Vice Provost of The New School and...
Pratt Institute of Art and Design
Other/Interdisciplin
International Center
Created inTime (2014), a 9-CD rhythm-based music-listening therapeutic method to improve brain function, in collaboration with Advanced Brain...
University
Founded the Psychedemia Interdisciplinary Psychedelics Conference; European Romantic Review Article Prize (2020); inaugural award for Best Humanities...
Chapman Ventures
Other/Interdisciplin
Center
Other/Interdisciplin
Dartmouth College
Editor-in-Chief of Ecological Economics since 2008; over 15,800 citations on Google Scholar; PhD from UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group; held...
University
Previously Assistant Professor in Neurology and Otolaryngology at Columbia University; postdoctoral researcher in Ellen Lumpkin's lab at Columbia;...
University
Other/Interdisciplin
Memorial Sloan Kettering
Biology & Medicine
Independent (based in New York)
Creative & Performin
Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center; University of Barcelona (visiting professor); Montclair State University (faculty); University of Jyvaskyla (doctoral candidate)
Biology & Medicine
Yale University
Former Media Director of Maya Lin's What is Missing? memorial on climate change and endangered species; former Industry Assistant Professor at NYU;...
Independent (Brooklyn, NY)
Painting installation 'Looking South' acquired by the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; commissioned by the MTA to create 35-foot paintings in...
Independent (New York, NY)
Past President of the College Art Association (2004-2006); PhD from University of Plymouth on the art and neuroscience of attention; guest editor of...
University
Winner of the 2023 Blaumann Prize; winner of the FXQi Essay Competition (2017); author of Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge University...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Other/Interdisciplin
N/A (formerly NPR)
Creative & Performin
Stony Brook University (SUNY)
2010 Science of Generosity Award from the University of Notre Dame; National Science Foundation grants for research on physiological consequences of...
Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons
Chief Resident at NYU/Bellevue Psychiatry (1987-88); founder and Chief Medical Officer of M3 Information, an information technology company focusing...
Independent
Pushcart Prize nominee; prizewinning chapbook Wait For Me, I'm Gone (Dream Horse Press); author of Captive (Saddle Road Press, 2023); published in...
Kenyon College
Schmidt Sciences HAVI Grant · NIST AI Safety Institute Consortium · In-Q-Tel portfolio investment · 2 US Patents
Columbia University
Guest lecturer on the evolution of communication systems in birds and mammals and the sensory systems of vertebrates; extensive field research across...
The Hastings Center
Lead co-principal investigator of an NIH-funded four-year project on xenotransplantation clinical trials ethics; co-author of Debating Modern Medical...
New York Zen Center
Other/Interdisciplin
Center
Other/Interdisciplin
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute (NYPSI)
Other/Interdisciplin
Metanexus Institute
Author of The New Sciences of Religion: Exploring Spirituality from the Outside In and Bottom Up (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010); founded the Philadelphia...
Independent
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association (NESEA); co-founder of the NY Chapter of the O2 international...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Former Jayne Wrightsman Curator in the Department of European Paintings; Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow (Class of 2012); curator of major...
MSF/Doctors Without Borders USA
Other/Interdisciplin
Greene Clinic / Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis
Founding board member of the Foundation for Community Psychoanalysis; research and publications on psychoanalysis, creativity, art, sexuality, social...
Private practice in Kent, UK (formerly National Health Service/NHS)
Biology & Medicine
Independent
Nearly fifty years of clinical practice; dual certification in Somatic Experiencing and the Tapping Method; provides consultations and webinars for...
Sorbonne and University Paris I; Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); University Paris VII; Societe Psychanalytique de Paris (Paris Psychoanalytical Society)
Other/Interdisciplin
Stanford University
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto's Jackman Humanities Institute (2011-2013); Scholar at the Institute for...
Columbia University / New York State Psychiatric Institute
NIMH Outstanding Resident Award; lead author of research published in Nature Communications demonstrating that neuronal variability is attributable...
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), NIH
Former Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Human Genetics and Director of the Molecular Epidemiology of Pain Program at the University of...
Bucknell University, Pennsylvania
Creator of the World Peace Game (1978); TED speaker; presenter at the Aspen Institute, Google, and the United States Pentagon; author of World Peace...
University College London (research affiliate)
Co-author of For Want of Ambiguity: Order and Chaos in Art, Psychoanalysis, and Neuroscience (Bloomsbury, 2021); pioneering research in...
Independent
Inaugural Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication (2016) for Particle Fever; Particle Fever received 96% approval on Rotten Tomatoes;...
EUREKUS
White House honoree as a US2020 STEM Mentoring Awards Finalist (2015); 20-year collaboration with NASA; exhibited at Denver Museum of Nature &...
The New School for Social Research
Creative & Performin
Ligo Project
Former Scientific Communications Editor & Consultant at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; former Scientific Consultant and Project Manager at...
Columbia University (MFA candidate)
World premiere of macbitches (New York Times Critic's Pick); premieres of Road Kills (recommended by The New York Times and The New Yorker);...
Independent
Creative & Performin
National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Creative & Performin
NYU School of Medicine; Institute for Psychoanalytic Education (IPE), affiliated with New York University Medical Center
Other/Interdisciplin
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Music, Stroke Recovery & Neuroimaging Lab
Other/Interdisciplin
N/A (formerly Thread Genius / Sotheby's; formerly Spotify; MIT alumnus)
Technology & Enginee
Independent
Other/Interdisciplin
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Editor of The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education: Branches from the Same Tree...
Independent
Author of four books on performance and stress: Test Success (2009), A Teen's Guide to Success (2014), Stressed Out! for Parents (2015), and Crush...
The Story Collider
Co-founded The Story Collider (2010), whose podcast has been downloaded more than 14 million times; Moth StorySLAM champion; former writer for...
New York's Jungian Psychoanalytic Association (JPA); Associate Editor, Journal of Analytical Psychology (London); Board Member, The Philemon Foundation
Other/Interdisciplin
Private practice in New York City (formerly Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine)
Other/Interdisciplin
Lyon Artbooks
Author of Nancy Spero: The Work (Prestel, 2010), the standard monograph on the artist; editor of David Smith Sculpture: A Catalogue Raisonne,...
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc. (ASCI)
Other/Interdisciplin
CUNY Graduate Center
Psychology & Psychoa
New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Recipient of the Elizabeth Young-Bruehl Award from the International Psychoanalytic Association for work against prejudice; author of 'Hating in the...
University of Nevada School of Medicine
Co-founder of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance; author of 'Handbook for Climate Psychiatry and Psychology'; member of the Executive Committee of the...
White Institute; Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California; Co-Editor of "Relational Perspectives in Psychoanalysis" book series
Other/Interdisciplin
Weill Cornell Department of Psychiatry; New York Psychoanalytic Institute Psychotherapy Program
Other/Interdisciplin
The Art of Science Learning (NSF-funded); GE's Crotonville Global Leadership Development Center
Other/Interdisciplin
Delaware Sea Grant
Founded Ecotonic Movement in 2020; served as Managing Director of the Alliance for Watershed Education at the National Wildlife Federation; created...
University of Hertfordshire / Southern Oregon University
Co-founded NeurIPS (1987); founding editor of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience; founded Whyville.net educational virtual world (1999);...
NYU SHERP (Creative Strategy Instructor)
Recognized as an emerging leader in synthetic biology through the Synbio LEAP fellowship; co-authored 'BioBuilder: Synthetic Biology in the Lab'...
Manhattan District Attorney's Office
Other/Interdisciplin
New York University School of Medicine
Author of bestselling books on Buddhism and psychotherapy including 'Thoughts without a Thinker' (with foreword by the Dalai Lama), 'Going to Pieces...
Mark Mitton, Inc.
Apprentice to legendary magician Slydini; collaborated with Nobel Laureate Gerald Edelman; created magic for film, television, Broadway, and Cirque...
Democracy Now!
Other/Interdisciplin
Rutgers University (Honors College, Rutgers Energy Institute, Rutgers Climate Institute)
Other/Interdisciplin
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
Winner of the 2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine; 2024 E.E. Cummings Prize; 2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize; 2020...
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons; New York Presbyterian Medical Center
Other/Interdisciplin
Weill-Cornell Medical College; New York Psychoanalytic Institute
Other/Interdisciplin
New York Psychoanalytic Institute / Mount Sinai College of Medicine / Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Past President of the Association for Child Psychoanalysis; Chairman of the Faculty at NYPSI; co-author of 'Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives...
Albert Einstein College of Medicine / New York Psychoanalytic Institute / NYU Psychoanalytic Institute / Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Medicine
Recipient of the Sigourney Award (2018), the highest honor in psychoanalysis; author of 'The Use of the Self: Countertransference and Communication...
Columbia University; Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine (President); Sigmund Freud Archives of the Library of Congress (Board member)
Other/Interdisciplin
Bar-Ilan University
Author of 'Milton's Warring Angels' and 'Open Minded Torah'; published in Commentary, Azure, JQR, AJS Review, Tradition, and the Washington Post
United States Merchant Marine Academy
Author of 'The Voices of David Foster Wallace'; research on systems concepts of feedback loops and self-regulation across literature, phenomenology,...
University of Chicago, Department of Physics
PhD in dark matter phenomenology from University of Chicago; Ed.M. in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard; pioneered contemplative practices in...