About Us
The Simons Foundation division of Life Sciences seeks to advance basic research on fundamental questions in biology. The division currently focuses on microbial oceanography and computational biogeochemical modeling of marine ecosystems, microbial ecology and evolution, and support of early-career scientists.
Leadership
Joy Bergelson, Ph.D.
Joy Bergelson is the executive vice president of the Simons Foundation’s Life Sciences division and the Silver Professor in the Department of Biology at New York University (NYU). She oversees a grant portfolio focusing on projects in ecology and evolutionary…
Read MoreMarian Carlson, Ph.D.
Marian Carlson received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Stanford University. After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 1981 she joined the faculty at Columbia University, where she was a professor of…
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