About

Team

Meet the passionate minds within our organization

At the Allen Institute, you’ll find mathematicians, physicists, engineers, neuroscientists, cell biologists, geneticists, informatics experts and a team of administrative professionals working side-by-side to achieve our goals.

  • Executive Leadership ▼
  • Administration ▼
  • Brain Science ▼
  • Cell Science ▼
  • Frontiers Group ▼
  • Immunology ▼
  • MindScope Program ▼
  • Neural Dynamics ▼
LeninaArenas-Fuentes, M.Ed.
Chief of Staff
RuiCosta, D.V.M., Ph.D.
President and Chief Executive Officer
RuGunawardane, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Cell Science
ChristofKoch, Ph.D.
Chief Scientist of the MindScope Program
KathyRichmond, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Executive Vice President, Director Frontiers Group and Office of Science and Technology
PetraSmith, J.D.
Executive Director, Human Resources
KarelSvoboda, Ph.D.
Vice President and Executive Director
MarjorieThomas
Chief Financial Officer
HongkuiZeng, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President, Director of the Allen Institute for Brain Science