Leadership in the MIT School of Science includes:

Science Council

Chaired by the Dean of Science, the Science Council meets regularly during the academic year to confer on matters of school policy and promotion cases. Download the full PDF list of the members of the MIT School of Science’s Science Council.

Nergis Mavalvala
Dean, MIT School of Science
Chair, Science Council
Curtis (1963) and Kathleen Marble Professor of Astrophysics

Deepto Chakrabarty
Department Head
Professor of Physics

Robert Desimone
Director, McGovern Institute
Doris and Don Berkey Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Michale Fee
Department Head
Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Michel X. Goemans
Department Head
Professor of Mathematics

Amy Keating
Department Head
Professor of Biology

Jacqueline Lees
Associate Dean, MIT School of Science
Virginia & D.K. Ludwig Professor for Cancer Research

Rebecca Saxe
Associate Dean, MIT School of Science
John W. Jarve (1978) Professor in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Robert Simcoe
Director, MIT Kavli Institute
Francis L. Friedman Professor of Physics

Li-Huei Tsai
Director, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Robert van der Hilst
Department Head
Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Troy Van Voorhis
Department Head
Robert T. Haslam and Bradley Dewey Professor of Chemistry

Boleslaw Wyslouch
Director, Lab for Nuclear Science
Professor of Physics

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