Meet our team

Current members

Alessandro Zulli

Research Scientist

Detection

Alvaro Morales

Director of Operations

Operations, Leadership

Andrew Liu

Senior Research Scientist

AI

Ben Mueller

Executive Director

Board of Directors, Leadership, Policy, AI

Bryce Cai

Senior Research Engineer

AI

Chris Doering

Genomic Biosecurity Scientist

Detection

Christine Parthemore

CEO, Council on Strategic Risks

Board of Directors

Coleman Breen

Senior AI Policy Researcher

AI, Policy

Dan Rice

Senior Research Scientist

Detection

Eleanor Marshall

Research Scientist

AI

Elise Sanders

Executive Assistant

Operations

Evan Fields

Senior Research Scientist

Detection

Geetha Jeyapragasan

Research Fellow

AI

Gerard Goucher

Operations Associate

Operations

Jacob Kaffey

Research Engineer

AI

Jake Lloyd

Field Sampler

Detection

James Kremer

Head of Laboratory Science

Detection

Jasper Götting

Head of Research

AI

Jeff Kaufman

Director of Detection

Detection, Leadership

Jo Faraguna

Bioinformatics Engineer

Detection

Katherine Stansifer

Senior Research Scientist

Detection

Kelly Chafin

Head of Biosecurity Response

Detection

Lane McAree

Program and Operations Manager

Operations

Liv Boeree

Cofounder, Raising for Effective Giving

Board of Directors

Mac Walker

Research Analyst

AI

Michael Gomez

Senior Research Associate

Detection

Michael Specter

Staff Journalist. The New Yorker

Board of Directors

Mike McLaren

Senior Research Scientist

Detection

Nelly Mak

Research Scientist

AI

Olivia Hershey

Research Scientist

Detection

Pedro Medeiros

Research Scientist

AI

Peter Peneder

Research Scientist

AI

Róisín Floyd-O’Sullivan

Associate Laboratory Manager

Detection

Samira Nedungadi

Head of Engineering

AI

Sawyer Bernath

Operations Director, Tarbell Center for AI Journalism

Board of Directors

Seth Donoughe

Director of AI

Leadership, AI, Policy

Siham Elhamoumi

Head of Partnerships

Detection

Simon Grimm

Technical Program Manager

Detection

Will Bradshaw

Head of Computational Programs

Detection, Leadership, Operations

Past members

Anjali Gopal

Research Scientist & AI Project Co-Lead

Policy, AI, Leadership

Ari Machtinger

Research Technician

Detection

Charlie Whittaker

Fellow, Imperial College

Detection

David Sliney

Project Consultant

Far-UVC, Collaborators

Emily Soice

Operations Specialist

Operations, Detection, AI

Harmon Bhasin

Research Analyst

Detection

Janvi Ahuja

DPhil Scholar, University of Oxford

Detection, Collaborators

Jolien Sweere

Research Scientist

AI

Jon Sanders

Research Scientist

AI

Kevin Esvelt

Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab

Leadership, Detection, SecureDNA, Policy, AI, Board of Directors

Lenni Justen

Graduate Student, Sculpting Evolution Group and DRAPER

Detection, AI, Collaborators

Nathan Helm-Burger

Machine Learning Engineer

AI

Tiffany Tzeng

Operations Manager

Operations, Far-UVC

Vaishnav Sunil

Project Lead, Personal Protective Equipment

Policy

Vanessa Smilansky

Research Scientist

Detection