Laboratory Members

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Each entry gives the person’s role and years in the lab, followed in italics by their position since and the year it was last confirmed.

Gustavo Stolovitzky, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1994-1997. As of 2026: Professor of Pathology and Director of the Biomedical Data Sciences Hub, NYU Grossman School of Medicine.

Guillermo Cecchi, Graduate Student, 1994-1999, and Winston Fellow, 2000. As of 2026: Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Juan Parrondo, Visiting Professor, 1995. As of 2026: Professor, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Yong Choe, (co-advised) Graduate Student, 1996-2002. As of 2012: Editor at Neuron.

Mariano Sigman, (jointly advised) Graduate Student, 1997-2002. As of 2026: Director of Research and Education, Scienseed, and author (marianosigman.org).

Tim Gardner, Graduate Student, 1997-2002. CASI Awardee. As of 2026: Associate Professor of Bioengineering, Knight Campus, University of Oregon.

Dante Chialvo, Visiting Professor, 1999, and Adjunct Professor. As of 2026: Principal Researcher, CONICET, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires.

Mario Feingold, Visiting Professor, 1999. As of 2026: Professor Emeritus of Physics, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Nick Socci, Senior Research Associate, 2000-2001 (jointly with E. Siggia). As of 2026: Director, Bioinformatics Core, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

Víctor M. Eguíluz, Visiting Student, 2000-2001. As of 2026: Research Professor, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3), and IFISC (CSIC-UIB), Palma de Mallorca.

Felix Naef, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2001-2002, and Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellow in Basic Neurosciences, 2002-2003. As of 2026: Professor, Institute of Bioengineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Margherita Peliti, Visiting Student, 2001, and Graduate Student, 2002. As of 2026: Physics and chemistry teacher, French Ministry of National Education, Paris.

Marcelo Montemurro, Postdoctoral Associate (ICTP), 2002-2003. As of 2026: Senior Lecturer in Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, UK.

Stefano Di Talia, Graduate Student (SISSA/ICTP), 2003. As of 2026: Professor of Cell Biology, Duke University School of Medicine.

Mayte Suárez-Fariñas, Postdoctoral Fellow and Women in Science Fellow, 2003-2005. As of 2026: Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Steffen Bohn, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2003-2004. As of 2012: CNRS Fellow, Paris.

Anton Zilman, Postdoctoral Associate, 2004-2006. Later Professor, Department of Physics, University of Toronto. Anton passed away in April 2024.

Thomas Risler, Postdoctoral Associate, 2005-2006. As of 2026: Maître de conférences, Sorbonne Université, at Institut Curie.

Maurizio Pellegrino, (co-advised with Leslie Vosshall) Graduate Student, 2005-2010. As of 2026: Senior Director of Operations, Labcorp, San Francisco Bay Area.

Daniel Andor, Postdoctoral Associate, 2006-2010. As of 2026: Google Research, New York.

Oreste Piro, Visiting Professor, 2006-2007 and several shorter stays. As of 2026: Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of the Balearic Islands.

Thibaud Taillefumier, Graduate Student, 2006-2011. As of 2026: Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Mathematics, University of Texas at Austin.

John Agapiou, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2008-2010. As of 2026: Staff Research Engineer, Google DeepMind.

Gašper Tkačik, Visiting Student, 2008. As of 2026: Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

Maria Neimark Geffen, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2010. CASI Awardee. As of 2026: Professor, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania.

Gergely Szöllősi, Visiting Student, 2009. As of 2026: Associate Professor, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology.

Xiao-Hu Yan, Studienstiftung Visiting Student, 2009. As of 2026: Staff Software Engineer, Machine Learning, Meta, Seattle.

Jonathan Touboul, Postdoctoral Fellow, from 2009. As of 2026: Chair and Professor of Mathematics, Brandeis University.

Guillermo Solovey, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2009-2011. As of 2026: Researcher, CONICET, and Visiting Professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.

Akinori Ebihara, (co-advised with Winrich Freiwald) Graduate Student, from 2009. As of 2026: Principal Researcher, Biometrics Research Laboratories, NEC Corporation.

Matthew Dornfeld, Graduate Student, 2009-2017. As of 2026: Developer, Virtu Financial, New York.

Jacob Oppenheim, Graduate Student, 2009-2014. As of 2026: Venture Partner, RA Capital Management.

Eleni Katifori, Guest Investigator, 2009-2010, and Raymond and Beverly Sackler Fellow, 2011. CASI Awardee. As of 2026: Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, and Senior Research Scientist, Flatiron Institute.

Marisa Gianna Evelyn, Postdoctoral Fellow, from 2011.

Carl Modes, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2011-2017. As of 2026: Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden.

Sean Woodward, Graduate Student, 2011-2019. As of 2026: Neurology resident, Northwestern Medicine.

Keith Hayton, Graduate Student, from 2011.

Kimberly Siletti, Graduate Student (rotation), Fall 2011. As of 2026: Group leader, Department of Translational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Utrecht.

Leandro Alonso, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2016. As of 2026: Research Scientist, Marder Lab, Department of Biology, Brandeis University.

Brigid Maloney, (principal advisor Erich Jarvis) Graduate Student, 2018-2024. As of 2026: Postdoctoral Associate, Jarvis Laboratory, Rockefeller University.