Dr. Sara Najem

Biography

Sara received her BS and MS in physics at the American University of Beirut with focus on network complexity and dynamics. She then obtained her Ph.D. in Physics at McGill University studying out-of-equilibrium morphodynamics of immune and neural cells.

She is the recipient of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). She was a Postodoctoral Fellow at the Couzin Lab at Princeton University from 2012-2014 and the Gordon & Betty Moore Postdoctoral Fellow at GALCIT at California Institute of Technology from 2014 till 2016. Currently, she holds a joint position at BRIC and the National Center for Remote Sensing of CNRS-L studying complexity at the urban scale using machine learning and statistical physics machinery.