Pranav Vyas

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Recent Updates

1. September 2026

   Helen Hay Whitney Foundation (HHWF) Postdoctoral Fellowship

   Began. Collective organization across developmental and evolutionary timescales.

   UChicago
2. September 2026

   Online talk, Society and Democracy Consultations

   Can we become a planetary adaptive society? Emergence, social learning, and the next architecture of democratic coordination.

   Hubballi
3. August 2026

   Citizen School Record

   An online platform for citizen-driven audit of public schools in India.

   India
4. May 2026

   Invited talk, Northwestern University

   Lattices across scales: From sea cucumber biomineral ossicles to Arctic brittle star assemblages.

   Northwestern
5. April 2026

   Poster, Lake Conference: Modelling Life from Cells to Tissues

   Branching morphogenesis of sea cucumber ossicles in multi-cellular syncytial confinement.

   Seattle
6. March 2026

   Short talk, APS Global Physics Meeting

   Hyperuniformity in 2D disordered lattices of adult Ophiuroids in Arctic benthos.

   Denver
7. April 2025

   Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago

   Center for Living Systems, with Noah Mitchell and David Pincus.

   UChicago
8. March 2025

   Chicago Fellows Program

   Accepted. Biological Sciences Division, University of Chicago.

   UChicago
9. March 2025

   Center for Living Systems Postdoctoral Fellowship

   Accepted. Center for Living Systems, University of Chicago.

   UChicago
10. January 2025

    Ph.D., Bioengineering, Stanford

    Syncytial biomineralization, placozoan scaling, Arctic field systems.

    Stanford
11. January 2025

    Short talk, SICB

    Branching morphogenesis of sea cucumber ossicles in multi-cellular syncytial confinement.

    Atlanta
12. January 2025

    Poster, SICB

    Hyperuniformity in 2D disordered lattices of adult Ophiuroids in Arctic benthos.

    Atlanta
13. August 2024

    Ph.D. defense, Stanford

    Thesis committee: Christopher Lowe, Bo Wang and Manu Prakash.

    Stanford

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