Leadership
MIT School of Science's senior leaders meet regularly to confer on matters of policy and promotion
Leadership in the MIT School of Science includes:
Science Council
Diversity Council
Gender Equity Committee
Faculty Search Oversight Committee
Graduate Admissions Committee
Graduate Student Council
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
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership
The School’s Council on Diversity and Gender Equity with representatives from each of the academic units, serves, in concert with members of Science Council, are responsible for broad oversight of diversity efforts, including the creation of programs, monitoring progress, and suggesting new initiatives to the Dean and their colleagues within the School. In addition, Council on Diversity and Gender Equity representatives serve as a resource to their colleagues throughout the School who would like to learn more about current diversity activities. The Council on Diversity and Gender Equity members meet annually with the Science Council to discuss current activities, challenges, and review proposed changes and initiatives.
In addition to the Council on Diversity and Gender Equity members and Science Council, each academic department has at least two Faculty Search Oversight Committee Representatives who are responsible for providing advice, guidance, and oversight of the faculty search process. Similarly, a member of each academic department, typically, a faculty member, is responsible for playing a similar role in the graduate admissions process. (See Table 1 below for a list of current representatives serving in these roles.)
Diversity Council
Biology | Michael Laub, Professor of Biology | 617-324-0418 |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Emery Brown, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science; Associate Director of IMES Pawan Sinha, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science | 617-324-1880617-253-0267 |
Chemistry | Jianshu Cao, Professor of Chemistry | 617-253-1563 |
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Leigh (Wiki) Royden, Professor of EAPS | 617-253-1292 |
Mathematics | Gigliola Staffilani, Professor of Mathematics | 617-253-4981 |
Physics | Vladan Vuletic, Professor of Physics | 617-324-1174 |
Gender Equity Committee
Biology | (Co-Chair) Michael Laub, Professor of Biology | 617-324-0418 |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Pawan Sinha, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science | 617-253-0267 |
Chemistry | Ron Raines, Professor of Chemistry | 617-253-1470 |
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Leigh (Wiki) Royden, Professor of EAPS | 617-253-1292 |
Mathematics | (Co-Chair) Gigliola Staffilani, Professor of Mathematics | 617-253-4981 |
Physics | Anna Frebel, Associate Professor of Physics | 617-254-3917 |
Faculty Search Oversight Officers
Biology | Stephen Bell, Uncas (1923) & Helen Whitaker Professor of Biology; Amy Keating, Professor of Biology | Bell: 617-253-2054 Keating: 617-452-3398 |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Pawan Sinha, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Edward (Ted) Gibson, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Sinha: 617-253-0267 Gibson: 617-253-8609 |
Chemistry | Mohammad (Mo) Movassaghi, Professor of Chemistry; Jianshu Cao, Professor of Chemistry | Movassaghi: 617-253-3986 Cao: 617-253-1563 |
EAPS | Shuhei Ono, Associate Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | 617-253-0474 |
Mathematics | Tom Mrowka, Professor of Mathematics | 617-253-2857 |
Physics | Vladan Vuletic, Professor of Physics | 617-324-1174 |
Graduate Admissions Committee
Biology | Amy Keating, Professor of Biology; Michael Hemann, Associate Professor of Biology; Stephen Bell, Uncas (1923) & Helen Whitaker Professor of Biology; Jacqueline Lees, Associate Department Head, Associate Director of Koch Institute, Ludwig Professor | Keating: 617-452-3398 Hemann: 617-324-1964 Bell: 617-253-2054 Lees: 617- 252-1972 |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Mandana Sassanfar, Lecturer of Biology; division heads | 617-452-4371 |
Chemistry | Tim Swager, John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry | 617-253-4423 |
EAPS | Group leaders are alerted to URM applications by Educ Admin. | |
Mathematics | Gigliola Staffilani, Professor of Mathematics | 617-253-4981 |
Physics | Janet Conrad, Professor of Physics | 617-324-6281 |
Science Graduate Student Council
Goal: The SGSC will provide a forum to exchange ideas among the graduate student bodies across the School, and it will discuss and advise me on matters of concern to your community.
Structure: Each of the six Science departments will have two or three representatives on the SGSC. The SGSC will meet two times per semester with the Dean and possibly separately other times as desired.
Biology | Gerardo Manuel Perez Goncalves Rachel Anderson | |
Brain and Cognitive Sciences | Gal Raz Jenn Hu | |
Chemistry | Diomedes Dieppa-Matos Elaine Christy Reichert | |
Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences | Lyssa Freese Lesly Franco | |
Mathematics | Peter Haine Kaavya Valiveti | |
Physics | Francesco Sciortino Carina Aiello Belvin |