Team & Fellows
The minds
behind the NeoRenaissance.
Co-Founder · Science Director
Alvise
Raccanelli
Raccanelli
Professor of Cosmology · Università di Padova
Professor of Cosmology, with deep technical grounding in statistical methods and the math behind AI. Working on foundational problems in machine learning; the rare profile that can produce publishable science and buildable systems from the same first principles.
150+
Publications
10k+
Citations
CERN
Johns Hopkins
Caltech
NASA JPL
SKA
Einstein Telescope
Euclid · ESA
LISA
Co-Founder · Strategy & Operations
Ben
Spievak
Spievak
Founder · SVRN
Background in economics, community building, and AI systems. Brings commercial architecture, fundraising strategy, and the institutional relationships required to translate research into impact. Oriented toward civilizational and systems-level thinking.
Scientific Advisory Board
Alex Szalay
Johns Hopkins
Architect of large-scale astronomical databases; pioneer in survey cosmology infrastructure. Member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Chiara Mingarelli
Yale
Gravitational-wave astrophysicist; leading researcher in pulsar timing arrays and nanohertz gravitational waves.
Michele Liguori
Università di Padova
Expert in primordial non-Gaussianity and cosmological data analysis; statistical methods for large-scale structure.
Advisory Board
Alexandra Dumas
Novus, Google
Angela Kheir
Scale AI
Research Collaborators
Federico Semenzato
Johns Hopkins University
Cosmological inference and machine learning methods.
Francesco Spezzati
Caltech
Mathematical physics and neural network theory.
Open Positions
The NeoRenaissance Institute is in its founding phase. We are assembling a small team of exceptional researchers and engineers at the intersection of physics, mathematics, and machine learning.
Positions will be announced as the Founding Round progresses. If you are a physicist, mathematician, or ML researcher drawn to foundational questions about intelligence and learning, we'd like to hear from you.