Bio:

Maria Tikhanovskaya joined the Allen Institute and the University of Washington as a Shanahan Fellow in January 2025. Maria earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University in 2024, where she worked with Professor Subir Sachdev on developing theoretical frameworks to better understand the complex phase diagram of high-temperature superconductors. During her Ph.D., she also worked at Google Research as a student researcher, applying large language models to problems in physics and quantum chemistry. As a Shanahan Fellow, Maria is eager to leverage her expertise in physics and modern AI to contribute to advances in computational neuroscience.