Brigitte Kahl Professor of New Testament, Union Theological Seminary in New York Brigitte Kahl is a Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York and an Associate Professor at the Religion Department of Columbia University. A biblical scholar with strong inter-disciplinary and ecological leanings, she explores scriptural texts and topics in their ancient contexts and interpretational trajectories throughout history, analyzing both “mainline” and “heretic” reading paradigms in their impact on church, society and natural environment.… read more »
Leora Kahn Founder and president of PROOF: Media for Social Justice Leora Kahn is founder and president of PROOF: Media for Social Justice. She works on global projects with Amnesty International and the United Nations. Her 2007 book Darfur: 20 years of War and Genocide has won several awards and an exhibition of this work is traveling in the US under the auspices of the Holocaust Museum of Houston.… read more »
Daniel Kahneman Professor Emeritus, Princeton University Daniel Kahneman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton., He is best known for his joint research with Amos Tversky on human judgment and decision making. Tversky did in 1996. Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2013.… read more »
Lisa Kaltenegger Founding Director, Carl Sagan Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos Associate Professor, Astronomy, Cornell University Lisa Kaltenegger is the Founding Director of the Carl Sagan Institute to Search for Life in the Cosmos at Cornell and Associate Professor in Astronomy. She is a pioneer and world-leading expert in modeling potentially habitable worlds and their detectable spectral fingerprint.… read more »
Zachary Kaminsky Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Zachary Kaminsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and jointly appointed in the Department of Mental Health in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He received his Ph.D.… read more »
Eric Kandel University Professor, Columbia University Eric R. Kandel, M.D., is University Professor at Columbia; Kavli Professor and Director, Kavli Institute for Brain Science; Co-Director, Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute; and an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. A graduate of Harvard College and N.Y.U.… read more »
Dana Karwas Dana is a research-based artist working with digital imagery, sculpture, installation, and painting. Her research explores the human (and post-human) relationship to the environment by colliding speculative architecture with empirical observation. This is driven by her love of the ironic in architecture—including intentional and unintentional zoomorphic structures, her fear of storms and the ocean—and her fascination observing and being in a constant state of motion.… read more »
David Scott Kastan George M. Bodman Emeritus Professor, English at Yale University David Scott Kastan is the George M. Bodman Emeritus Professor of English at Yale University, having previously taught at Columbia University and at Dartmouth College. He has served as one of the General Editors of the Arden Shakespeare, the co-editor of the Bantam Shakespeare, and the series editor of the Barnes and Noble Shakespeare.… read more »
Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann is Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University. He received degrees from Yale, the Warburg Institute, and Harvard, and has been awarded honorary doctorates by the Technical University, Dresden, and the Masaryk University, Brno. The holder of the Palacký medal from the Czech Academy of Sciences, he is a member of the Swedish, Flemish, and Polish Academies of Science, and has been a Fellow of the American Academies in Berlin and Rome, among other honors and Fellowships.… read more »
Linda Keen Professor of Mathematics, Graduate Center and Lehman College of the City University of New York Linda Keen is Professor of Mathematics at the Graduate Center and Lehman College of the City University of New York. She is currently Executive Officer of the Doctoral Program in Mathematics. Her research spans various parts of complex analysis including complex dynamics, hyperbolic manifolds and Teichmuller theory.… read more »
Andreas Keller Neuroscientist & Philosopher Andreas Keller is a New York-based academic with PhDs in neuroscience and philosophy who is interested in olfactory perception. He has over a decade of experience in olfactory psychophysics and the clinical aspects of olfaction. The results of his experiments have shed light on human olfactory capacities, on the relation between the structure and smell of odor molecules, and on the perceptual consequences of variability in odorant receptor genes.… read more »
J. A. Scott Kelso Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science, Florida Atlantic University J. A. Scott Kelso grew up in Derry, N. Ireland and was educated at universities in Belfast, Calgary and Wisconsin. He was senior research scientist at Yale’s Haskins Laboratories for 7 years before moving to Florida Atlantic University in 1985 to take up the Glenwood and Martha Creech Chair in Science and found The Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences.… read more »
Jeffrey Kephart Distinguished RSM, Symbiotic Cognitive Systems IEEE Fellow Member, IBM Academy of Technology Jeffrey O. Kephart is a distinguished research scientist at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY. Known for his work on computer virus epidemiology and immune systems, electronic commerce agents, self-managing computing systems, and data center energy management, he presently leads research in the area of symbiotic cognitive systems and serves as co-strategist for embodied cognition.… read more »
Kathleen Kete Professor of European History, Trinity College Kathleen Kete is the Borden W. Painter, Jr., ’58/H’95 Professor of European History and Secretary of the Faculty at Trinity College, CT. She received her PhD in History from Harvard University in 1989, with a year en passant at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.… read more »
David Kipping Associate Professor, Astronomy, Columbia University Director, Cool Worlds team View Papers / Presentations » David Kipping is an Associate Professor of Astronomy at Columbia University and the Director of the Cool Worlds team. His group studies the exoplanet demographics, detection techniques and the search for exomoons, for which his team found the first two candidates.… read more »
Adam Kirsch Senior Editor at The New Republic Adam Kirsch is a senior editor at The New Republic and a columnist for Tablet Magazine. He is the author of two books of poetry, The Thousand Wells and Invasions, and several other books, including most recently Rocket and Lightship: Essays on Literature and Ideas.… read more »
Kenneth T. Kishida Research Scientist, Computational Psychiatry Unit, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute Kenneth T. Kishida is a Research Scientist in the Computational Psychiatry Unit at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. He investigates neurobiological processes underlying human choice behavior using computational approaches paired with measurements of behavior and associated neural activity. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Genetics at the University of California, Davis, but also studied Philosophy and developed an interest in investigating the biological basis of mental processes.… read more »
Michael Klein Poet, Essayist Michael Klein’s second book of poems, then, we were still living, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and his first book, 1990, tied with James Schuyler to win the award in 1993. A collection of short, lyric essays, States of Independence, won the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook contest in non-fiction, and a new book of poems, The Talking Day was just published by Sibling Rivalry Press.… read more »
Eric Klinenberg Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences, New York University Director, Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University View Papers / Presentations » Eric Klinenberg is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He is the author of 2020: One City, Seven People, and the Year Everything Changed, Palaces for the People, Going Solo, Heat Wave, and Fighting for Air, and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller Modern Romance.… read more »
Robert Klitzman Professor, Psychiatry, Columbia University Director, Bioethics Program, Columbia University Robert Klitzman, M.D., is a professor of psychiatry at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Joseph Mailman School of Public Health, and the Director of the online and in-person Bioethics Masters and Certificate Programs at Columbia University. He has written over 150 scientific journal articles, nine books, and numerous chapters on critical issues in bioethics regarding genetics, neuroscience, psychiatry doctor-patient relationships and other areas.… read more »
William Koblener Associate Professor, Bar-Ilan University William Kolbrener is Associate Professor of English at Bar-Ilan University. He received his B.A. from Columbia College, his M.A. from University College, Oxford, and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. He has written in major scholarly journals in literature, history, theology, psychoanalysis, and cultural criticism, on Jewish topics in Commentary, Azure,JQR, the AJS Review, Tradition and many other Jewish publications, and the Washington Post column, Letter from Israel.… read more »
Simon Kochen Professor emeritus and Senior Research Scientist, Mathematics Department, Princeton University Simon Kochen is Professor emeritus and Senior Research Scientist in the Mathematics Department of Princeton University. Kochen received his Ph.D. in 1959 from Princeton University. He was a professor at Cornell University from 1960 to 1967. After a year at the Institute for Advanced Study, he joined the Princeton Mathematics Department in 1968.… read more »
Joseph J. Kohn Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University Joseph Kohn is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University. He is a winner of the Mathematical Society Steele Prize and the Bergman Prize and is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.… read more »
Joseph Kohn Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, Princeton University Joseph Kohn was born in Prague, on May 18, 1932. He emigrated to Ecuador in 1939 and to the US in 1945. There, he received his BS at MIT 1953, and his Ph.D. at Princeton, in 1956. He served as a Professor at Brandeis University 1958-1968 and at Princeton since 1968.… read more »
Daniel Kohn Born in 1964 in Ahmedabad, India to French and American parents, Daniel Kohn was raised in France. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York since 1996. His artistic work can be seen as an ongoing attempt to integrate this diverse background into an evolving point of view.… read more »
Marina Korsakova-Kreyn Marina Korsakova-Kreyn is a professional pianist and scholar in music perception and cognition. She received her Diploma in Piano Performance from Nizhniy Novgorod State Conservatory, Russia, and she received her Ph.D. in Cognition and Neuroscience from The University of Texas at Dallas.… read more »
John Krakauer Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Director of BLAM Lab, Co-founder of the KATA project Dr. Krakauer is the John C. Malone Professor at the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Professor of Neurology and Neuroscience, Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Director of the Brain, Learning, Animation, and Movement Lab, and co-founder of the Kata Project at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.… read more »
Jonathan Kramnick Maynard Mack Professor of English, Yale University Jonathan Kramnick is Maynard Mack Professor of English at Yale University. His research and teaching is in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, philosophical approaches to literature, and cognitive science and the arts. He is the author of three books. His new book, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness (Chicago, 2018), asks what distinctive knowledge the literary disciplines and literary form can contribute to discussions of perceptual consciousness, created and natural environments, and skilled engagement with the world.… read more »
John Kress Distinguished Scientist & Curator of Botany, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Dr. W. John Kress is Distinguished Scientist and Curator of Botany at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He formerly served as the Interim Under Secretary for Science at the Smithsonian and Director of Science in the Grand Challenges Consortia.… read more »
Zosia Krusberg Visiting Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Vassar College Zosia Krusberg is a theoretical particle physicist and cosmologist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Vassar College. She obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, where she studied the physics of the early universe. She previously obtained a master’s degree in mind, brain, and education at Harvard University, and undergraduate and master’s degrees in astrophysics at Dartmouth College.… read more »
Robert Kurzban Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Robert Kurzban is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Psychology Department. He received his PhD at the University of California Santa Barbara at the Center for Evolutionary Psychology in 1998, and received postdoctoral training at Caltech in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, UCLA Anthropology, and the University of Arizona’s Economic Science Laboratory with Vernon Smith.… read more »
Alex Kwan Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University View Papers / Presentations » Alex Kwan is a neuroscientist whose work is focused on the neurobiology of antidepressants. He is known for using sophisticated optical imaging methods to study how drugs such as ketamine and psilocybin modify the structure and function of brain circuitry. His research has been published in top peer-reviewed journals including Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, and Biological Psychiatry.… read more »