Faculty Profiles

Samuel Mark Anderson, Senior Lecturer of Writing Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: samuel.mark.anderson@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Washington; MA New York University; PhD University of California Los Angeles

Research Interests: visual ethnography; aesthetics; politics; performance; media; postcolonial theory; violence; war; hu...

Marwa Banna, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: marwa.banna@nyu.edu
Education: BA Lebanese University; MA Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée; PhD Université Paris-Est Marne-le-V...

Olivier Bochet, Professor of Economics, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU; Co-Principal Investigator of Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ob16@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Brown University

Research Interests: Incentives; Efficiency; Equity

Gwyneth Bravo, Assistant Professor of Music; Global Network Assistant Professor of Music Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gwyneth.bravo@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, MA, University of California, Los Angeles (Historical Musicology); Fulbright Scholar Musicologi...

Research Interests: Musicology; music and politics; nationalism; exile; German aesthetic theory; 20th-century German and...

Warren Churchill, Senior Lecturer of Music Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: warren.churchill@nyu.edu
Education: BM Crane School of Music, SUNY; MA, EdM, EdD Teachers College, Columbia University

Research Interests: childhood development, disability studies, music therapy, exceptionalities, inclusion, music philoso...

Laila Familiar, Senior Lecturer of Arabic Language Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lailafamiliar@nyu.edu
Education: MA The American University in Cairo; PhD Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Research Interests: Language Teachers Education, Instructional Coaching, Curricular Design, Corpus Linguistics, Arabic L...

Sehamuddin Galadari, Professor of Biology, Managing Director of the Research Institute NYUAD Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: shg3@nyu.edu
Education: BSc. (Hons.) in Biochemistry, University of Southampton, UK; PhD. in Biochemistry, Imperial College,...

Research Interests: Biochemistry and Molecular Cell Biology

Joseph Gelfand, Associate Professor of Physics; Global Network Associate Professor of Physics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jg168@nyu.edu
Education: PhD and AM Astronomy, Harvard University

Research Interests: Supernovae, Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Salila Kulshreshtha, Visiting Associate Professor of History and Art and Art History Affiliation: Visiting
Email: salila.kulshreshtha@nyu.edu
Education: BA Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University; MA Jawaharlal Nehru University; PhD Jawaharlal Nehru Uni...

Research Interests: Art and archaeology of South Asia; History of the Indian Ocean; Museums and Heritage Studies

Zeynep Ozgen, Associate Program Head of Social Research and Public Policy; Associate Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zo2@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of California Los Angeles; BA Bogazici University

Research Interests: Political sociology; Social movements; Culture

Sreekumar Pankajakshan, Lecturer of Chemistry Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sp5802@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Stuttgart University

Research Interests: Chemical Synthesis, Catalysis, Chemistry Education

Fabio Piano, Interim Vice Chancellor; Joint Distinguished Professor, NYU Abu Dhabi-NYU New York; Professor of Biology and Director, Center for Genomics and Systems Biology, NYU New York; NYU Abu Dhabi Provost, 2010-2020. Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fabio.piano@nyu.edu
Education: Laurea, University of Florence; BA, MS, MPhil., PhD, Biology, New York University; Postdoctoral Fell...

Research Interests: Systems Biology; Reproduction, Development and Metabolism; Evolution; Chemical Genetics; C. elgans a...

Aleksander Rebane, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Physics Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: a.rebane@nyu.edu
Education: BS ETH Zürich; MS Osaka University; PhD Yale University

Research Interests: Soft Matter Physics; Single-molecule Biophysics; Liquid-liquid Phase Separation; Optical Tweezers; I...

Hisham Sati, Director, Center for Quantum and Topological Systems (CQTS); Associate Dean for Student Success and Curricular Affairs; Professor of Mathematics; Global Network Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hsati@nyu.edu
Education: BS American University of Beirut; PhD University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Research Interests: Mathematical Physics, Quantum Field Theory, Differential Geometry, Algebraic Topology, Geometric an...

David Scicchitano, Professor of Biology Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: david.scicchitano@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in physiology from the Pennsylvania State University, Milton S. Hershey College of Medicine; BA ...

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Genomic Maintenance Mechanics

John Sexton, President Emeritus of the University Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: js1@nyu.edu