Emmy Blumenthal
PhD Student, Princeton University Department of PhysicsThey, them, theirs
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Office: Center for the Physics of Biological Function Space, Icahn Laboratories
I am a (second-year) PhD student in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, where I research phenomena in biological and statistical physics using primarily theoretical and computational approaches. I am additionally affiliated with the Center for the Physics of Biological Function. Professor Gautam Reddy is my primary advisor.
Prior to my PhD, I received a B.A. in Physics and Mathematics from Boston University where I worked with Professor Pankaj Mehta. During that time, I primarily studied machine learning and community ecology models using statistical physics perspectives.
I am fortunate to have my research supported by the Hertz Fellowship and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program. At Boston University, I was supported by the Trustee Scholarship and Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
Research Interests
My research interests include: Self-organized robustness, models of homeostasis and adaptation in biological systems, ecology and evolution in high dimensions, disordered systems, machine learning and statistical inference, statistical mechanics without equilibrium, and fun problems involving probability.