people & teams

At the Allen Institute, discovery is a team effort.

From brain mappers to cell biologists, from immunologists to AI engineers, our people and teams are building the resources, tools, and discoveries that accelerate science for everyone.

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Lenina Arenas-Fuentes

Chief of Staff

Christopher Beaudoin

Chief Operating Officer

Rui Costa

President and Chief Executive Officer

Ruwanthi (Ru) Gunawardane

Executive Vice President and Director, Cell Science

Julie Harris

Vice President, Science Initiatives

Andrew Hickl

Chief Technology Officer

Ed Lein

Executive Vice President and Director

Meg McClellan

Vice President and General Counsel

Sarah Norris Hall

Chief Financial Officer

Rob Piercy

Vice President, Communications & Impact

Jay Shendure

Lead Scientific Director, Seattle Hub for Synthetic Biology, Brotman Baty Institute University of Washington School of Medicine; HHMI

Petra Smith

Vice President, People and Culture

Karel Svoboda

Executive Vice President and Director, Neural Dynamics

Arden Yang

Vice President, Innovation

Hongkui Zeng

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Science

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Managing Director, Innovation Portfolio

Aaron Garcia, Ph.D.

Senior Manager, Logistics

Scientific Project Coordinator I

Abhe Rajagopal, Ph.D.

Senior AI Research Scientist

Abhishek Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Adam Glaser, Ph.D.

Adam Savage, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Aditi Sengupta, Ph.D.

Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Adrian Ranga, Ph.D.

Adrien Stanley, Ph.D.

Agata Budzillo, Ph.D.

Agnes L. Bodor, Ph.D.

Aida Habtezion, MD, MSc FRCPC

Stanford University

Aishwarya Gogate, M.S.

Senior Bioinformatics Analyst

Data Analyst II

Akira Fushiki, Ph.D.

Mechanical Engineer III

Site Reliability Engineer III

Alessandro Venega Coradini, Ph.D.

Alexander Aulehla, M.D., Ph.D.

European Molecular Biology Laboratory

Alexander Huth, Ph.D.

University of Texas at Austin

Alex Cahoon, BSME

Hardware Engineering Manager

Research Associate II

Alex Heubeck, M.S., B.S.

Automation Process Developer III

Alex Piet, Ph.D.

Research Associate I

Alf Honigmann, Ph.D.

Technische Universität Dresden

Scientific Project Coordinator II

Alina Ott, Ph.D.

Manager, Bioinformatics Operations

Sr. Manager, Neurosurgery and Behavior

Allan Jones, Ph.D.

Software Engineer II

Education and Engagement Specialist III

University of Wisconsin

Research Associate I

Hazardous Material Specialist III

Research Associate II

Amber True, Ph.D.

Instructional Designer, Senior

Ami Bhatt, M.D., Ph.D.

Stanford University

Senior Communications and Media Relations Specialist

Events Specialist II

Research Associate Sr. Supervisor

Anamika Agrawal, Ph.D.

Ananya Chowdhury, Ph.D.

Andre Berndt, Ph.D.

University of Washington

André Nadler, Ph.D.

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Chief Technology Officer

Andrew Johnson, Ph.D.

Associate Scientific Program Manager

Sr. Manager, SWE

Andrew McCulloch, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego

Andrew Miri, Ph.D.

Northwestern University

Andrew Shelton, Ph.D.

Research Associate II

Sr. Program Manager, Innovation

Anish Chakka, M.S.

Manager, Bioinformatics

Anjal Doshi, M.S.

Anna Lakunina, Ph.D.

Anna Magdalena Koester, Ph.D.

Anna-Maria Globig, Dr. Med.

Assistant Investigator

Executive Assistant

Software Engineer II

Annique Bublitz

Director, Learning Experience & Development

Anthony Hyman, Ph.D.

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Antoine Borensztejn, Ph.D.

Anton Arkhipov, Ph.D.

Investigator, D3 Scientific

Software Engineer II

A. Paul Alivisatos

University of Chicago

Vice President, Innovation

SW Engineer III

Arif Hamid, Ph.D.

University of Minnesota Medical School

Aryana Merritt-Johnson, B.S.

Research Associate I

Ashton Reece, MS

Research Associate Supervisor

Ashwin Bhandiwad, Ph.D.

Research Associate I, Tissue Processing

Research Associate, Sr.

Bargavi Thyagarajan, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Becky Zaunbrecher, Ph.D.

Ben Hardcastle, Ph.D.

Benjamin Gregor

Senior Research Associate

Benjamin Scott, Ph.D.

Princeton University

Scientific Data Engineer III

Senior Research Associate

Ben Pedigo, Ph.D.

Bert Bertagnolli

Research Associate, Sr.

Bethanny Danskin, Ph.D.

Beverly Neubauer

Manager, People & Culture

Bianca Jones Marlin, Ph.D.

Columbia University

Bilal Sheikh, Ph.D.

Helmholtz Munich

Blessing Musgrove, B.S.

Research Associate I-Flow Cytometry

Boaz P. Levi, Ph.D.

Associate Investigator

Bosiljka Tasic, Ph.D.

Director, Molecular Genetics

Braxton Jamison, Ph.D.

Brian Kalmbach, Ph.D.

Investigator, Assistant

Brian Lee, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Brian Long, Ph.D.

Briony McArdle-Oakley

Senior Manager, Stakeholder Engagement & Stewardship

Brock Roberts, Ph.D.

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brain science

Mapping every cell, connection, and circuit in the brain—openly shared with the world.

cell science

Decoding how cells become tissues, then programming that knowledge into powerful new research tools.

neural dynamics

Revealing the brain's hidden algorithms that transform neural activity into real-world behavior.

immunology

Creating the deepest open reference for the healthy human immune system ever built.

synthetic biology

Engineering cells to record their own histories, transforming how we understand disease over time.

research

Big questions, open answers, and science built to be shared.

education

Inspiring the next generation of scientists through open science resources.

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Our science is empowering researchers and advancing health worldwide.