25 Helix Center participants from Princeton University spanning Biology & Medicine, Creative & Performing Arts, History & Cultural Studies, Literature & Writing, Mathematics & Computer Science, Neuroscience & Cognition, Philosophy & Ethics, Physics & Cosmology, Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Social Sciences. Notable speakers include Edgar Choueiri, Joseph Kohn, Andrew Guess, and 22 others.
Andrew Guess
Associate Professor of Politics and Public Affairs
Published in Nature Human Behaviour and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences; research...
Anthony Grafton
Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
Guggenheim Fellowship, Balzan Priz
Brigid Doherty
Professor of German and Art and Archaeology
11 awards/honors
Claudia Brodsky
Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
de Karman Fellowship for Outstanding Achievement in the Humanities; Elias Boudinot Bicentennial...
Daniel Kahneman
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (2002) · Presidential Medal of Freedom
David Bellos
Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Princeton University
No known major awards
Edgar Choueiri
Professor of Applied Physics, Princeton University
No known major awards
Edwin Turner
Professor of Astrophysical Sciences
Other/Interdisciplin
Hans Halvorson
Stuart Professor of Philosophy
Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship; Cushing Memorial Prize in the History and Philosophy...
Jeff Dolven
Professor of English, Princeton University
Literature & Writing
Joseph J. Kohn
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University
Mathematics & Comput
Joseph Kohn
Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University
Mathematics & Comput
Lee Silver
Professor of Molecular Biology; co-founder of GenePeek
No known major awards
Michael Hecht
Professor of Chemistry
Created one of the first de novo designed proteins (Felix); discovered the first known de novo...
Nancy Princenthal
Writer
Literature & Writing
Neil Garrett
Senior Lecturer; Behavioural Risk Manager
Sir Henry Wellcome Research Fellowship; publication in Nature Neuroscience ('The Brain Adapts to...
Paul J. Steinhardt
Albert Einstein Professor, Princeton University
Dirac Medal (2002) · Buckley Prize (2010)
Piet Hut
Professor of Astrophysics and Head of the Program in Interdisciplinary Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Physics & Cosmology
Rhodri Lewis
Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer with Rank of Professor in English
Author of 'Shakespeare's Tragic Art' (The New Yorker Best Books of 2024); former Head of Graduate...
Simon Kochen
Henry Burchard Fine Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus
Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory (1967, shared with James Ax); Kochen-Specker Theorem;...
Spyros Papapetros
Associate Professor of Art and Architectural Theory and Historiography
Creative & Performin
Susan Wolfson
Professor of English
Literature & Writing
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology
Mitchell Prize for best book in art history in English for The School of Prague (1988); fellow of...
Uri Hasson
Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
TED speaker (TED2016); groundbreaking discovery of neural coupling between speakers and listeners...
Yiyun Li
Professor of Creative Writing, Princeton University
MacArthur Fellow (2010) · PEN/Hemingway Award