IDEA Scholars

Stephon Alexander is a theoretical physicist, musician and author whose work is at the interface between cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity. He works on the connection between the smallest and largest entities in the universe, pushing Einstein’s theory of curved space-time…

Herbert Fotso is an associate professor of Physics at the University at Buffalo SUNY. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 at Louisiana State University (LSU).

After an undergraduate degree in Engineering (Agronomy) at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Anne Goriely obtained a PhD studying the development of the nervous system of the Drosophila embryo.

Dr. Keith Hawkins is an Assistant Professor of Astronomy at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Laura A. Lopez is an associate professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University. She received her BS in physics from MIT and her Ph.D. in astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011.

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Karín obtained her B.Sc. in Physics from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. After a one-year Fulbright fellowship at the Leiden Sterrewacht (Astronomy Institute) in the Netherlands, she went on to pursue her PhD in Astronomy at…

Dr. Katherine S. Pollard is Director of the Gladstone Institute of Data Science & Biotechnology, Investigator at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, and Professor in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Graduate Program at UCSF.