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Sara S. Poor

Associate Professor

Princeton UniversityUSGerman

Sara S. Poor, also known as Sally, is an Associate Professor of German at Princeton University. She received her PhD from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Literature and has held academic positions at the...

ArtHistoryLiteratureClassics
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Charles Fefferman

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSMathematics

Charles Fefferman is a mathematician whose research focuses on the extension of smooth functions, interpolation, and the analysis of linear operators in the context of function spaces such as C m,w. His work includes...

MathematicsPhysicsMathematical analysisPure mathematics
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Brian Jacobs

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSFinance

Brian Jacobs is a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he teaches angel and venture capital financing. He is a co-founder of Emergence Capital, a leading Silicon Valley venture...

NeurosciencePsychologyInternal medicineEndocrinology
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Acting Chair, AY26 Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies

Princeton UniversityUSEnglish

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a Professor in the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University, serving as the Acting Chair for the academic year 2026-2027. She is a scholar of racial inequality in public...

SociologyPolitical scienceBusinessGender studies
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James A. Smith

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSCivil and Environmental Engineering

James A. Smith is the Henry L. Kinnier Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Virginia's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research focuses on sustainable point-of-use water treatment...

Environmental scienceClimatologyMeteorologyGeology
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Roland Benabou

Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs

Princeton UniversityUSEconomics

Roland J. M. Bénabou is the Theodore A. Wells '29 Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he joined the faculty in 1999. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of Economics and...

EconomicsPsychologySocial psychologyBusiness
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Wendy Laura Belcher

Professor of Comparative Literature

Princeton UniversityUSComparative Literature

Professor Wendy Laura Belcher is a faculty member in the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department for African American Studies at Princeton University. Her research focuses on early African literature,...

HistoryLiteratureArtAncient history
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Christopher Chang

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSChemistry

Christopher Chang is the Edward and Virginia Taylor Professor of Bioorganic Chemistry at Princeton University. His laboratory studies the chemistry and biology of the elements, advancing new concepts in imaging,...

PhysicsAtomic physicsMaterials scienceMechanics
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17.5K
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Jason W. Fleischer

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Princeton UniversityUSElectrical and Computer Engineering

Jason W. Fleischer is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University. His research focuses on nonlinear optics within the broader context of wave physics, emphasizing propagation problems...

PhysicsOpticsComputer scienceMaterials science
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Katja Guenther

Associate Professor of History

Princeton UniversityUSGerman

Katja Guenther is an Associate Professor of History at Princeton University, specializing in the history of modern medicine and the mind sciences. She is a trained medical doctor with an M.D. from the University of...

PsychologyPsychoanalysisSociologyArt history
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Andrew M. Guess

Associate Professor

Princeton UniversityUSPolitics

Andrew M. Guess is an associate professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research employs quantitative and computational methods to investigate the relationship between digital media and...

Computer sciencePolitical sciencePsychologyInternet privacy
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7.3K
citations
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Jerelle A. Joseph

Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute

Princeton UniversityUSChemical and Biological Engineering

Jerelle A. Joseph is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University and a member of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute. His research focuses on understanding the principles...

ChemistryChemical physicsBiophysicsGeography
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David Gabai

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSMathematics

David Gabai is a mathematician whose research focuses on hyperbolic 3-manifolds, 3-manifold topology, and related geometric methods. His work includes significant contributions to the understanding of hyperbolic...

MathematicsPure mathematicsCombinatoricsMathematical analysis
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3.9K
citations
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Elizabeth Niespolo

Assistant Professor of Geosciences

Princeton UniversityUSGeosciences

Elizabeth Niespolo is an Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University and an affiliated faculty member at the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). She combines field work with applications in...

GeologyPaleontologyArchaeologyGeography
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2.2K
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Sarah Kocher

Associate Professor | EEB & LSI; Freeman Hrabowski Scholar, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Princeton UniversityUSEcology and Evolutionary Biology

Sarah Kocher is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. She is also a Freeman Hrabowski Scholar and a...

BiologyEvolutionary biologyEcologyZoology
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2.9K
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Eve Ostriker

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSAstronomy

Eve Ostriker is the Lyman Spitzer, Jr., Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics and Associate Chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. Her research focuses on theoretical and...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyMechanics
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18K
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Gaspar Bakos

Professor

Princeton UniversityUSAstronomy

Gaspar Bakos is a Professor of Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton University. His research focuses on astrophysics, and he is affiliated with the Department of Astrophysical Sciences at Peyton Hall. He is involved in...

PhysicsAstrophysicsAstronomyAstrobiology
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20.6K
citations
509
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Paul Seymour

Associated Faculty

Princeton UniversityUSComputer Science

Paul Seymour is the Albert Baldwin Dod Professor of Mathematics at Princeton University, holding positions in both the Department of Mathematics and the Program in Applied and Computational Math. His research primarily...

CombinatoricsMathematicsDiscrete mathematicsComputer science
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28.4K
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510
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Saptarshi Chaudhuri

Assistant Professor

Princeton UniversityUSPhysics, Plasma and Fusion Research

Saptarshi Chaudhuri is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. He received his Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2019 and his B.S. in physics from Caltech in 2013. His...

PhysicsComputer scienceComputer networkOptoelectronics
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Yael Niv

She/Her, Director of Graduate Studies, Professor

Princeton UniversityUSPsychology

Yael Niv is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Princeton University and serves as the Director of Graduate Studies. She is affiliated with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Her research focuses on the...

PsychologyMedicineCognitive psychologyComputer science
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