Orit Peleg, a University of Colorado Boulder computer scientist and physicist, has won a 2022 Cottrell Scholar Award, which honors and supports early career scientists who have the potential to become leaders in their fields.
Peleg, an assistant professor of computer science and at the CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute, is one of 24 scholars to win this year’s award, which comes with $100,000 in research support. The award is bestowed annually by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA), which announced the recipients this month.
Peleg, who is also affiliated with the Departments of Physics, Applied Math and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, focuses on understanding how biological communication signals are generated and interpreted.
