Faculty & Leadership Members
Richard Carthew
Center Director
Leadership Council Member
William Kath
Center Co-Director
Leadership Council Member
Ravi Allada
Center Investigator
Erik Andersen
Center Investigator
Antonio Auffinger
Center Investigator
Leadership Council Member
Rosemary Braun
Center Investigator
Leadership Council Member
Bennett Goldberg
Education Director
Leadership Council Member
Carole LaBonne
Center Investigator
Leadership Council Member
Niall Mangan
Center Investigator
Madhav Mani
Center Investigator
JiPing Wang
Center Investigator
Alec Wang
Center Investigator
Cody FitzGerald
Fellows Representative
Leadership Council Member
NSF-Simons Fellows
Joel Dokmegang
NSF-Simons Fellow 2021-2023
Office: Tech, Room M441
Phone: 1 847 491 4398
Cody FitzGerald
NSF-Simons Fellow 2021-2023
cody.fitzgerald@northwestern.edu
Office: Tech, Room M441
Phone: 1 847 491 4398
Dominic Skinner
NSF-Simons Fellow 2022-2024
Office: Tech, Room M441
Phone: 1 847 491 4398
Center Scholars
Andre Archer, Affiliated Graduate Student
Eliza Duvall, Graduate Student
Daniel Fletcher, Graduate Student
Yitong (Pepper) Huang, Postdoctoral Fellow
Paul Huber, Postdoctoral Fellow
Kristin Johnson, Graduate Student
Andrew Liu, Graduate Student
Jiahui Liu, Postdoctoral Fellow
Siqi Liu, Graduate Student
Yanyan Lu, Postdoctoral Fellow
Andrew Montequin, Affiliated Graduate Student
Connor Puritz, Graduate Student
Sara Rigney, Affiliated Graduate Student
Clark Rosensweig, Postdoctoral Fellow
Bingxian Xu, Graduate Student
Gaotian Zhang, Postdoctoral Fellow
Ziyu Zhao, Graduate Student
Pilot Project Investigators
Alexandria Volkening
Mathematical Scientist
Purdue University
Project: A biomathematical approach to meristem formation in fern gametophytes
Funded Year 05
Yun Zhou
Life Scientist
Purdue University
Project: A biomathematical approach to meristem formation in fern gametophytes
Funded Year 05
Joseph Larkin
Life Scientist
Boston University
Project: Collective Behavior and Pattern Formation in Bacteria
Funded Year 05
Andrew Mugler
Mathematical Scientist
University of Pittsburgh
Project: Collective Behavior and Pattern Formation in Bacteria
Funded Year 05
Kathleen Foster
Life Scientist
Ball State University
Project: Quantify how morphology and locomotor biomechanics change during growth
Funded Year 04
Alessandro Selvitella
Mathematical Scientist
Purdue University Fort Wayne
Project: Quantify how morphology and locomotor biomechanics change during growth
Funded Year 04
Hojoon Lee
Biological Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Mapping the Transcriptional Path of Taste Cell Specification
Funded Year 04
István Kovács
Mathematical Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Mapping the Transcriptional Path of Taste Cell Specification
Funded Year 04
William M. Brieher
Life Scientist
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Project: Mammalian epithelial cell sheets: mechanical stability and structural dynamics
Funded Year 03
Sasha Hilgenfeldt
Mathematical Scientiat
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Project: Mammalian epithelial cell sheets: mechanical stability and structural dynamics
Funded Year 03
Jeremiah Zartman
Life Scientist
University of Notre Dame
Project: Mapping morphogens to tissue shape through surrogate models and optimization of model-based design of experiments
Funded Year 03
Alexander Dowling
Mathematical Scientist
University of Notre Dame
Project: Mapping morphogens to tissue shape through surrogate models and optimization of model-based design of experiments
Funded Year 03
Jie Liang
Mathematical Scientist
University of Illinois Chicago
Project: Quantitative Pattern Recognition and Behavior Prediction of Olfactory Neurogenesis
Funded Year 02
Ankur Saxena
Life Scientist
University of Illinois Chicago
Project: Quantitative Pattern Recognition and Behavior Prediction of Olfactory Neurogenesis
Funded Year 02
Jianping Fu
Life Scientist
University of Michigan
Project: Mechanical Regulation of Fate Patterning in Human Pluripotent Stem
Cell Colonies
Funded Year 02
David Lubensky
Mathematical Scientist
University of Michigan
Project: Mechanical Regulation of Fate Patterning in Human Pluripotent Stem
Cell Colonies
Funded Year 02
Madhav Mani
Mathematical Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Adult Regeneration and the Formation of Cartesian Tissue Axes
Funded Year 01
Christian Petersen
Life Scientist
Northwestern University
Project: Adult Regeneration and the Formation of Cartesian Tissue Axes
Funded Year 01
Xin Li
Life Scientist
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Project: Computational Reconstruction of Gene-Gene Dynamics in Temporal Patterning of Drosophila Medulla Neuroblasts from Single-Cell RNA-Seq
Funded Year 01
Dave Sihai Zhao
Mathematical Scientist
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Project: Computational Reconstruction of Gene-Gene Dynamics in Temporal Patterning of Drosophila Medulla Neuroblasts from Single-Cell RNA-Seq
Funded Year 01
Center Staff
Tim Bisantz, Program Administrator
Ginger Gilmore, Business Administrator
Michele McDonough, Research Administration
Program Evaluation Staff
Bennett Goldberg
Denise Drane
Caroline Freitag
Evaluation Research Project Coordinator
caroline.freitag@northwestern.edu
Office: Pancoe 3113
Phone: 847 467 0389
Science Club Outreach Staff
Tanicia Burns
Ashley Jennings
External Advisory Board
Ken Cho, Center Biology Advisor
Antonio Giraldez, Center Biology Advisor
Sheila Judge, Center Administration Advisor
Jané Kondev, Center Mathematics Advisor
Rama Ranganathan, Center Mathematics Advisor
Ilaria Rebay, Center Biology Advisor
Fruma Yehiely, Center Team Science Advisor
Internal Advisory Board
Luis Amaral, Center Advisor
Alumni
Vasyl Alba, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus
Rachael Bakker, Graduate Student Alumnus
Postdoctoral Scholar, Subramaniam Group, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Sebastian Bernasek, Graduate Student Alumnus
Scientific Computing Engineer, Emerald Cloud Lab
Jonathan Desponds, NSF-Simons Fellow Alumnus
Health Data Hub, France
Kathyrn (Katie) Evans, Graduate Student Alumnus
Data Scientist, Precision Biosciences
Simon Freedman, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus
Bioinformatics Scientist, Illumina
Kevin Gallagher, Graduate Student Alumnus
Scientist, NeoGenomics
Ritika Giri, Affiliated Graduate Student Alumnus
Postdoctoral Scholar, Amaral Group, Northwestern University
Marta Iwanaszko, Postdoctoral Scholar Alumus
Research Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Ashika-Sita Jayanthy, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus
Computational Biologist
Eric Johnson, Graduate Student Alumnus
Postdoctoral Scholar, Northwestern University
Keren Li, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumnus
Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Elan Ness-Cohn, Graduate Student Alumnus
Entrepreneurial Fellow, Chicago Biomedical Consortium
Joy Nyaanga, Graduate Student Alumnus
Bioinformaticist, Northwestern University
Anjali Rao, Graduate Student Alumnus
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Computational Medicine, NYU Langone
Sumit Saurabh, Postdoctoral Fellow Alumus
Teaching Faculty and Postdoctoral Associate, Loyola University – Chicago
Sasha Shirman, Postdoctoral Scholar Alumnus
Senior Scientist at Applied BioMath
Alexandria Volkening, NSF-Simons Fellow Alumus
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Purdue University
B Kell, Visiting Scholar Alumnus
Graduate Student, University of Toronto
