SFI has elected a number of new members to its faculty, Science Board, and Science Steering Committee.
SFI’s Science Board has elected two new co-chairs (three-year terms began July 1):
· Marcus Feldman, Wohlford Professor, biological sciences, Stanford University
· Stephanie Forrest, professor & department chair, computer science, University of New Mexico
The Institute has named three new members to its Science Board (three-year terms began July 1):
· Derek Smith, professor, infectious disease informatics, University of Cambridge
· Geoffrey West, distinguished professor and past president, SFI
· Peter Wolynes, Francis H. Crick Chair in physical sciences and professor of physics, UC San Diego
Walter Fontana has begun a three-year term on SFI’s Science Steering Committee. Walter is a professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.
Jennifer Dunne, formerly an SFI research professor, has been appointed to a five-year term as an SFI professor. Jennifer is co-director of the Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab in Berkeley, California.
SFI has selected nine new members to its external faculty (three-year terms began July 1):
· Aviv Bergman, professor and chair, Department of Systems & Computational Biology, Department of Pathology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
· David Campbell, provost, Boston University
· Linda Cordell, senior scholar, School for Advanced Research
· Steven Frank, professor, ecology and evolutionary biology, UC Irvine
· John Harte, professor, environmental science, policy, and management, UC Berkeley
· Simon Levin, Moffett Professor of Biology, Princeton University
· Lord (Robert) May of Oxford, professor, zoology, Oxford University
· Van Savage, assistant professor, Department of Systems Biology, UCLA School of Medicine
· Wojciech Zurek, laboratory fellow, Theory Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory