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Milena Tsvetkova
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
BioMilena Tsvetkova is Associate Professor of Computational Social Science at the Department of Methodology at the London School of Economics and Political Science and external faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. She is the director of the HUMANET lab, funded by an ERC Consolidator grant with €2,000,000 in 2025–2030 to investigate interactions and collective outcomes in human-machine social systems. Milena holds a PhD in sociology from Cornell University. Her research combines online experiments, network analysis, machine learning, and computational modeling to study cooperation, contagion, segregation, and inequality in human and human-machine groups, networks, and communities. Milena’s work has been published in sociology, computer science, and general science journals and recognized with the Raymond Boudon Award for Early Career Achievement by the European Academy of Sociology. In 2026-27, Milena is visiting the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University as a Fellow.
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Lev Tsypin
Postdoctoral Scholar, Pathology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am working with Botryococcus braunii, a species of freshwater microscopic algae. This organism is unique among plants in that it secretes copious amounts of oil that is chemically analogous to petroleum. This organism may be the key to developing a cheap and sustainable alternative to fossil fuels, but we do not yet have the tools to engineer or optimize its oil production. My work aims to bridge this gap.
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Xun Tu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAs a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Erin Gibson’s lab, I am integrating my expertise in molecular signaling and systems neuroscience to study the role of OPCs in sleep. My interest in sleep has been further reinforced by observing the dramatic shifts in sleep architecture across developmental stages as a new parent, highlighting the necessity of sleep for neural refinement. My current research uses in vivo calcium imaging and closed-loop optogenetics to determine how OPC-neuron communication coordinates hippocampal sharp-wave ripples. By characterizing how aging blunts OPC responsiveness to sleep, I aim to identify novel strategies to preserve memory and promote healthy cognitive aging.
