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Marieh Bassam Al-Handawi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mah859@nyu.edu
Education: MA: New York University (GSAS); PhD: New York University (GSAS)

Research Interests: Water harvesting, Bioluminescence, Biomimetic materials, Biomineralization, Crystallography, Self-he...

Rasha AbdulHalim, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rga5@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, American University of Beirut; MSc, American University Beirut; DSc in Chemical Science, KAUST

Research Interests: Metal Organic frameworks, MOF synthesis, MOF characterization, X-ray crystallography, Gas sorption...

Dana Aguilar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: da4021@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Universidad Nacional de Cordoba

Research Interests: Computacional Science, Bioinformatics, Evolution

Yousra Ajouaou, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ya2331@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université Libre de Bruxelles

Research Interests: Epigenetic; regeneration; Liver; ageing

Zahraa Alraies, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: za2523@nyu.edu
Education: PhD. PSL University, France, MSc Paris Descartes University, France, BA Kalamoon University, Syria

Research Interests: Mechaniobiology, immunology, cell biology, nucleus, mechanosensing

Benjamin Anwasia, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: benjamin.anwasia@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Delta State University Abraka, Nigeria; MSc Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona; Joi...

Research Interests: Kinetic Theory; Hydrodynamic Limits

Nikhil Arora, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nikhil.arora@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Jacobs University Bremen; MSc Queen's University; PhD Queen's University

Research Interests: Galaxy formation and evolution; galaxy structure; comparing simulations and observations of galaxies

Cristina Baglio, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mcb19@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Milan (Italy); MA University of Milan (Italy); PhD University of Insubria (Como, It...

Asif Bakshi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aab8477@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Kashmir; MSc University of Kashmir; PhD Center for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnost...

Research Interests: Drosophila Neural Development, Neural Diversity, Neurons, Neural Circuitry

Balaraju Battu, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bb3404@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Allahabad

Research Interests: Collective action, human-machine interactions, trust

Neelu Begum, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: neelu.begum@nyu.edu
Education: BSc(Hons) St. Georges University of London, MSc London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; PhD ...

Research Interests: Computational Science, Multi-omics, Bioinformatics, Microbiome, Adaptive Evolution

Jishnu Bhattacharya, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jb6888@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Brij Bhushan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bn2351@nyu.edu
Education: BTech Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, India; MS Latrobe Univers...

Research Interests: Microbiome; metagenomics; host-microbiome interaction

Christopher Bryan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: crb9805@nyu.edu
Education: PhD (Psychology), University of Limerick, Ireland; Bachelor of Science in Sport and Exercise Science...

Research Interests: Occupational psychology, stress psychology, educational psychology and sport psychology

Nanda Kishore Reddy Busireddy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nanda.kishore@nyu.edu
Education: PhD National Institute of Technology Rourkela

Research Interests: Air-sea interactions; coupled modelling; ocean and weather extremes; climate change

Tiago Costa Capote, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tiago.capote@nyu.edu
Education: BA and MA in Biochemistry, University of Beira Interior, Portugal; PhD in Biology, University of Lis...

Research Interests: Plant Genomics and Evolution

Francesco Ceccarini, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fc2284@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Università di Padova, Italy

Research Interests: Motor control, kinematics, perception

Torsten Cellnik, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tc98@nyu.edu
Education: BA Bergische Universität Wuppertal; MA Bergische Universität Wuppertal; PhD Bergische Universität Wu...

Research Interests: development of organic transformations, automation of chemical synthesis, natural product synthesis

Anees Rahman Cheratta, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: arc10@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Pharmaceutical Science, Cresent College of Pharmaceutical Science; MSc Hamdard University, Ph...

Christopher Adrian Clough, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cac10156@nyu.edu
Education: BA ETH Zürich; MA ETH Zürich; PhD University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests: Topos theory; Homotopy Theory; Higher Categories; Derived Geometry

Carlo Collari, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: carlo.collari@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Università degli Studi di Cagliari, MSc Università di Pisa, PhD Università degli studi di Firenz...

Research Interests: Knot theoryò Quantum Invariants; Khovanov Homology; Khovanov-Rozansky Homologies; Graph Homologies;

Sarah Daakour, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sd145@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Liege - Belgium

Research Interests: genetics; synthetic biology; interactomics; genetic engineering; molecular biology; algal systems; c...

Basam Dahy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: basam.dahy@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Ecology & Environmental Sciences, UAE University, UAE

Research Interests: Remote sensing applications; geospatial modeling; LULC change; carbon sequestration; sustainable dev...

Nathalia Delgadillo, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ncd5387@nyu.edu
Education: BA Biology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia; MA Environmental Science and Engineering and PhD in Ma...

Research Interests: Coral restoration, climate change, assisted evolution

Dattaraj Dhuri, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dbd7062@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India

Research Interests: Solar Magnetism, Space-weather, Mars

Tetiana Dovbischuk, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tetiana.dovbischuk@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Hamburg

Research Interests: Nature; green spaces; urban development; life-course; mobility; micromobility; housing; relocation d...

Nadine Hosny El Said, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nhe1@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Pharmaceutical sciences, Ain Shams University (ASU); MSc. Biotechnology the American Universi...

Research Interests: Epigenetics, Epigenomics, Biochemistry, lncRNA, Biotechnology, Molecular and Cell biology, stem cell...

Mai El Sawy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mme7566@nyu.edu
Education: Dual PhD degree in Particle Physics, University of Antwerp in Belgium and Beni Suif University in Eg...

Research Interests: Particle physics, CERN, physics, atlas

Bikash Garai, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bg101@nyu.edu
Education: PhD AcSIR

Research Interests: Covalent organic frameworks, Water purification, Contaminant removal from water

Stefanos Georgiadis, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: stefanos.georgiadis@nyu.edu
Education: Diploma National Technical University of Athens; PhD Vienna University of Technology and King Abdull...

Research Interests: Applied mathematics, Partial differential equations, Fluid mechanics

Grigorios Giotopoulos, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: grigorios.giotopoulos@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Edinburgh; MASt University of Cambridge; PhD Heriot-Watt University

Research Interests: Mathematical Physics; Geometrical and Topological Aspects of Physics; Homotopy Theory; Category Theo...

Daniil Golubenko, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dg4300@nyu.edu
Education: Specialist degree (BA+MA) Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU); PhD Kurnakov Institute of General...

Research Interests: Water and ion transport in membranes, conductivity, membrane fabrication, electrodialysis, nanofiltr...

Bruno Guillotin, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: bg93@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Toulouse University, FR

Research Interests: scRNA-seq, root development, stem cells, mycorrhizal symbiosis, peptides

Jeneen Hadj-Hammou, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jh8695@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Leeds University; MSc Oxford University; PhD Lancaster University

Research Interests: Coral reefs; ecosystem functions; functional traits; climate change; marine protected areas; fishing

Subrota Halder, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sh7868@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Atmospheric and Space Sciences, Savitribai Phule Pune University; MSc, Atmosphere and Ocean Sci...

Research Interests: Climate variability and predictability; decadal prediction; coupled modelling; ocean circulation

Trent Haydon, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: trent.haydon@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Technology Sydney; BSc (Hons) University of Technology Sydney; PhD University of T...

Research Interests: Microbial Ecology, Microbiology, Coral Biology

Alyaa Hessin, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: afh8900@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Cairo University; MSc Cairo University; MPA American University in Cairo, PhD University of Illi...

Research Interests: Oncology, DNA Editing, Climate Change, Plant Biology

Haroune Houamed, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: haroune.houamed@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université Côte d'Azur, Nice

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Mechanics and Plasma physic.

Elisephane Irankunda, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: elisephane.i@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Environmental Science, Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania; MSc in Atmospheric an...

Research Interests: Urban network-environment interactions ; air quality monitoring; air quality modelling; transportati...

Syaheed Jabar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: syaheed.jabar@nyu.edu
Education: BA National University of Singapore; MA,Graduate Diploma,PhD University of Waterloo

Research Interests: Visual Attention, Expectations & Memory

Amaria Javed, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amaria.javed@nyu.edu
Education: MSc and MPhil Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad; PhD United Arab Emirates University, UAEU

Research Interests: All-Optical Data Processing, Quantum Information Processing, Quantum Sensing

Asmaa Jrad, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abj8980@nyu.edu
Education: BE Lebanese University; MEng American University of Beirut; PhD American University of Beirut

Research Interests: Materials' molecular design; Functional porous materials; Desalination; Catalysis

Dineshkumar Krishnamoorthy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dineshkumar.k@nyu.edu
Education: MPhil and PhD Central University of Kerala

Research Interests: Panomics

Anurag Kumar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ak11283@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Allahabad, India

Research Interests: Air-sea interactions, climate change, coupled ocean sea ice modeling, physical and dynamical oceanog...

Kaitlin Lesco, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kl6071@nyu.edu
Education: BSc St. Francis Xavier University; PhD Colorado School of Mines

Research Interests: Marine Microbiology; Characterization; Separations; Extracellular Polymeric Substances

Yu Liang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yu.liang@nyu.edu
Education: BA Shandong University; PhD University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Nonlinear Instability; Turbulence

Jie Liu, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jl15817@nyu.edu
Education: BA Fudan University; PhD Fudan University

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations

Filippo Macchi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fm1442@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Biotechnology at University of Insubria (Italy); MSc in Biology Applied to Biomedical Research...

Research Interests: Epigenetics; Cancer; Regeneration; UHRF1 and DNA Methylation

Laura Manenti, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laura.manenti@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University College London

Research Interests: Dark matter; neutrino physics; liquid argon and liquid xenon TPCs

Marwa Mannai, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm12971@nyu.edu
Education: BA Faculty of sciences of Tunis; MA Faculty of sciences of Tunis; PhD Faculty of sciences of Tunis

Research Interests: Topological phases of matter; Two-dimensional materials; Strongly correlated electron systems; Moiré...

Billy Moore, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bcm9945@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Essex, PhD Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

Research Interests: Coral reef biology, Genomics, Ecophysiology, Adaptation

David Myers, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: djm10080@nyu.edu
Education: BA Oberlin College, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Homotopy Type Theory, Category Theory, Modal Logic

Arah Narida, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: egn2040@nyu.edu
Education: BA Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan; MS University of the Philippines Diliman; PhD National Sun Y...

Research Interests: Coral reef ecology, coral taxonomy, coral biology, coral spawning and larval rearing, benthic commun...

Matthew Nielson, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: matthew.nielson@nyu.edu
Education: PhD: Family and Human Development, Arizona State University. Specialization: Women and Gender Studie...

Research Interests: Gender Identity Development

Sergey Nikiforov, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sn4533@nyu.edu
Education: National Research Nuclear University MEPhI; PhD Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Science...

Research Interests: Mars; Planetary science; Remote sensing; Machine learning; Instrumentation / Space instruments

Swathy Krishna P.S, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: skp7753@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Cochin University of Science and Technology, MSc Cochin University of Science and Technology, BS...

Research Interests: Coastal ocean dynamics, ocean modelling, climate change, coastal vulnerability

Tulasi Ram Reddy Annapareddy, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tulasi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; MStat, BStat (Hons), Indian Statistical Institute, Kolk...

Mitchell Riley, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mitchell.v.riley@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Queensland; MA Western University; PhD Wesleyan University

Research Interests: Homotopy Theory; Type Theory; Modal Logic

Daniel Ripley, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: daniel.ripley@nyu.edu
Education: Msci University of Manchester; PhD University of Manchester

Research Interests: Ecophysiology, multi-stressor interactions, hypoxia

Edyta Sasin, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: edytasasin@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Groningen, Netherlands

Research Interests: Attention, Memory, Visual Perception, Cognitive Control

Birga M Schumpe, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: birga.schumpe@nyu.edu
Education: PhD

Jade Taylor, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jlt9376@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MRes and PhD Manchester University, UK

Research Interests: Cardiovascular physiology

Sachin Valera, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sachin.valera@nyu.edu
Education: Math University of Durham; PhD University of Bergen

Research Interests: Quantum Information; Anyons; Category Theory; Quantum Topology

Mathy Vanhoef, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mathy.vanhoef@nyu.edu
Education: PhD KU Leuven, Belgium

Research Interests: Network & System Security; Software Security; Secure Software Engineering; Applied Cryptography; Pri...

Kyle Wright, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kyle.j.wright@nyu.edu
Education: BSc (hons 1st class) University of Otago; PhD Australian National University

Research Interests: Mathematical physics; Geometric and topological aspects of string theory and M-theory

Xin Xie, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: xx12@nyu.edu
Education: University of Cambridge

Haocheng Yang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hy3448@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; MS Université Paris-Saclay; PhD Université Paris-Sacla...

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations; Microlocal Analysis

Soha Yousuf, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sey5434@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, PhD Khalifa University of Science and Technology