Current members
Manus Patten, PI
Manus has been at Georgetown since January 2011. His main interests are genetic conflicts, adaptation, and the levels of selection. He teaches courses in evolution, ecology, and genetics. Google Scholar link.
Manus has been at Georgetown since January 2011. His main interests are genetic conflicts, adaptation, and the levels of selection. He teaches courses in evolution, ecology, and genetics. Google Scholar link.
Raja Panjwani, post-doc
After obtaining his PhD in May 2024 from New York University, Raja joined the Patten lab in October 2024 to work on the project "Internal Conflicts in Collective Agents". He is developing a formal model of organizational conflict and aiming to characterize shared structures between biology and the social sciences. In addition to his post-doc, he is also a Consulting Researcher at Microsoft Research in New York, where he works on Human-Oriented AI.
After obtaining his PhD in May 2024 from New York University, Raja joined the Patten lab in October 2024 to work on the project "Internal Conflicts in Collective Agents". He is developing a formal model of organizational conflict and aiming to characterize shared structures between biology and the social sciences. In addition to his post-doc, he is also a Consulting Researcher at Microsoft Research in New York, where he works on Human-Oriented AI.
