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

Susan Kaech

Executive Vice President and Director, Immunology

Ed Lein

Executive Vice President and Director, Brain Health

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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Scott J. Rodig, M.D., Ph.D.

Harvard Medical School

Scott Sterrett, Ph.D.

Sean Palecek, Ph.D.

Sebastian Yrarrazaval

Research Associate I

Serol Turkyilmaz, Ph.D.

Director of Engineering (Scientific Instrumentation and Process Engineering)

Séverine Durand, Ph.D.

Shailaja Akella, Ph.D.

Shanel Tsuda, Ph.D.

SW Engineer III

Research Associate II

Senior Manager, Research Compliance

Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Ph.D.

Manager, Computer Vision

Sharon Way, Ph.D.

Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

Shawn Olsen, Ph.D.

Investigator, Neural Circuits and Behavior

Research Associate III

Shelby Suckow, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Scientific Program Management

Shenqin Yao, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Software Engineer II

Shiella Caldejon

Senior Research Associate Supervisor

Shinya Ito, Ph.D.

Shoaib Mufti, M.S.

Sr. Director, Data and Technology

Shruthi Vijay Kumar

Senior Research Associate

Shuchen Wu, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

Research Associate II

Simona Lodato, Ph.D.

Humanitas University

Simon Mochrie, Ph.D.

Yale University

Smrithi Sunil, Ph.D.

Soh Ishiguro, Ph.D.

Song-Lin Ding, Ph.D.

Principal Scientist

Soumya Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Staci Sorensen, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Neuroanatomy

DevOps Engineer, Sr.

Stefan Mihalas, Ph.D.

Investigator, D3 Scientific

Stephanie Jade Anover-Sombke

Sr. Manager, Spatial Biology & NGS Technologies

Stephanie Seeman, Ph.D.

Stephen Zhang, Ph.D.

Cercano Management

Stuart Kendrick

Network Engineer, Sr.

Sudarshan Pinglay, Ph.D.

Build Team Lead, SeaHub & UW Faculty, Pinglay Lab

Sue Ludmann, M.S.

Senior Research Associate

Sujatha Narayan, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Software Engineer III

Suraj Mishra, Ph.D.

Susan Kaech, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President and Director, Immunology

Susanne Rafelski, Ph.D.

Sr. Director, Quantitative Biology

Susan R. Schwab, Ph.D.

Susan Sunkin, Ph.D.

Director, Scientific Program Management

Product Manager III

Postbaccalaureate Research Assistant

Tahra Eissa, Ph.D.

University of Colorado Boulder

Lab Operations Coordinator II

Research Associate Sr. Supervisor

Tanya L. Daigle, Ph.D.

Investigator, Associate

Research Associate, Sr.

UX Designer and Visualization Specialist II

Thomas Pollard, M.D.

Yale University

Tiffany Barszczewski

Research Associate III

Tiffany Oña Jodar, Ph.D.

Tim Clausen, Ph.D.

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology

Associate Director, Data and Technology

Tim Jarsky, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Electrophysiology

Timothy Kim, Ph.D.

Shanahan Fellow

Tom Ansell, B.S.

Director, IT Enterprise Apps & Support

Tom Chartrand, Ph.D.

Tom Goddard, Ph.D.

University of California, San Francisco

Toni Hatzakis, M.S.

Director, People & Culture Business Partners and Immigration

Tracy Finnemore

Research Associate II

Travis Kroeker, M.S.

UX Researcher and Designer

Education and Engagement Coordinator III

Troy Torgerson, M.D., Ph.D

Director, Experimental Immunology

Trygve Bakken, M.D., Ph.D.

Investigator, Associate

Research Associate II

Software Engineer III

Tyler Mollenkopf, M.S.

Associate Director, Data and Technology

Ueli Rutishauser, Ph.D.

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Upaasana Krishnan, MS

Bioinformatics Analyst II

Uygar Sümbül, Ph.D.

Associate Investigator

Vaishnavi Parthasarathy, M.S.

Research Associate, Sr.

Valliappa Lakshmanan, Ph.D.

Vayle Lafehr, B.A.

Research Associate II

Venajah Woods, B.A.

Education and Engagement Coordinator III

Veronica Hernandez, B.S.

Research Associate, Lead

Victoria Rachleff, Ph.D. candidate

Vivek Athalye, Ph.D.

Senior Scientist

Viviana Gradinaru, Ph.D.

California Institute of Technology

V. Michael Holers, M.D.

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Research Associate, Sr.

Wan-Qing Yu, Ph.D.

Wendy Xin, Ph.D.

Will Bailis, Ph.D.

University of Pennsylvania

Research Associate I

Wilson Wong, Ph.D.

Boston University

Xiaojun Li, Ph.D.

Director, Informatics & Computational Biology

Xiao-Ping Liu, Ph.D.

Xiaoyin Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Investigator

Xiaoyu Lu, Ph.D.

Ximena Opitz-Araya

Research Associate, Principal

Yapeng Su, Ph.D.

Yasmeen Hussain, Ph.D.

Senior Scientific Project and Alliance Manager

science done differently. shared openly.

explore our accelerators

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.

Brain Health

Accelerating human brain research and new therapeutic strategies for neurological conditions

research

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

education

Inspiring the next generation of scientists through open science resources.

impact

Our science is empowering researchers and advancing health worldwide.