Janelia Postdocs go onto a variety of careers ranging from faculty to patent examiners, government policy, consulting, beer brewing, engineering, and managing the division that suggests programs you might like to watch next on Netflix. About 40% go on to group leader/faculty positions.
Jan Marek Ache
Emmy-Noether Group Leader, Universität Würzburg, Germany
Chinessa Adkins
Patent Examiner, U.S. Patent Office
Bruno Afonso
Data Scientist, Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada
Pavan Agrawal
Assistant Professor, Kasturba Medical College, India
Adriaan (Jasper) Akerboom
Resident Brewing Scientist, Lost Rhino Brewery
Marta Rivera Alba
Lead Scientist, Clarity
Stephanie Albin
Science Program Officer, Kavli Foundation
Fernando Amat
Senior Research Engineer, Netflix
Jonathan Amazon
Principal Research Scientist, Novateur
Wafa Amir
Director Imaging Facility, Delaware State University
Yexica (Yeka) Aponte
Unit Chief/PI, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
Pierre Apostolides
Assistant Professor, University of Michigan Medical School
Yoshinori Aso
Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus
Deniz Atasoy
Assistant Professor, University of Iowa
Takeshi Awasaki
Assistant Professor, Kyorin University School of Medicine, Japan
Karima Azdad
Attache Risk Management Biocides, Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety & Environment
Julia Bachman
Health Program Specialist, National Institutes of Health
Shing Chun Benny Lam
Reviewer, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Nicholas Betley
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Julide Bilen
Freelance Writer, Self Employed
Katie Bittner
Principle Scientist, Medtronic
Erik Bloss
Assistant Professor, The Jackson Laboratory
Mehdi Bolorizadeh
Consulting Scientist & Product Manager, Bloor Solutions
Philip Borden
Biochemistry Lead, LifeEDIT
Bart Borghuis
Professor of Neuroscience, University of Louisville
Lana Bosnac
Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Berkeley
Martin Brill
Application Specialist, Rapp OptoElectronic GmbH
Habib Bukhari
Scientific Computing Associate II, Janelia Research Campus
Jessica Cande
Patent Technical Advisor, Cooley LLP
Sergi Castellano
Group Leader, University College London, United Kingdom
Mark Cembrowski
Assistant Professor, Lab Head, University of British Columbia, Canada
Frances Chance
Scientist, Sandia National Labs
Anderson Chen
Micro Nano Imaging Facility Manager, Boston University
Bi-Chang Chen
Assistant Research Fellow, Research Center for Applied Science in Taiepei, Taiwan
Jiji Chen
Senior Scientist, National Cancer Institute
Maria (Eugenia) Chiappe
Principal Investigator, Champlimaud Institute, Lisbon, Portugal
Nathaniel Clack
Principal Engineer, Vidrio
Justin Crocker
Group Leader, EMBL, Germany
Hod Dana
Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic Case Western Reserve University
Fred P. Davis
Senior Computational Biologist, Celsius Therapeutics
Alexandra Deaconescu
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Wulan Deng
Assistant Professor, Peking University, China
Claire Deo
Group Leader, EMBL, Germany
Alexandre Dieudonne
Data Scientist/Visualization, TrueCar
Yun Ding
Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Biology
Jingjing Duan
Principle Investigator, Nanchang University, China
Michael Economo
Assistant Professor, Boston University College of Engineering
Anne-Kathrin Eiselt
Scientific Consultant, Noldus Information Technology
Hananeh Esmailbeigi
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
Reto Fiolka
Assistant professor, University of Texas Southwestern
Samuel Gale
Scientist II, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Liang Gao
Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University
Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido
Lecturer, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Austin Graves
Research Associate, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Noah Gray
Senior Editor, Nature Publishing Group
Leo Guignard
Scientist, Max Delbrück Center
Zengcai Guo
Assistant Professor, Tsinghua University in Beijing, China
Diego Gutnisky
Data Science Manager, Grandata
Stefanie Hampel
Group Leader, University of Puerto Rico, Institute of Neurobiology
Mark Harnett
Assistant Professor, MIT McGovern Institute
Fredrick (Trace) Henry
Medical Science Liaison, Innate Pharma
Samuel (Andrew) Hires
Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Burkhard Hoeckendorf
Senior Image Data Scientist, St. Jude's Research Hospital
David Hoffman
Senior Optical Engineer, 10x Genomics, Inc.
Bryan Hooks
Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Jingyi Hou
Scientific Editor, EMBO
Ching-Lung Hsu
Assistant Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Tao Hu
Machine Learning Director, 84.51°
Cheng-Chiu Huang
Associate Scientist, TLC Biopharmaceuticals
Daniel Huber
Assistant Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland
David Hunt
Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science and Medicine at Cedars-Sinai
Hidehiko Inagaki
Research Group Leader, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Maria Ioannou
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Canada
Vijay Iyer
Senior Software Engineer/Sci Comp, Mathworks
Jesse Jackson
Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Department of Physiology, Canada
Arnim Jenett
Tefor Core Facility, CNRS/Tefor
Na Ji
Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Tihana Jovanic
Research Scientist, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France
Fadi Jradi
Research Scientist, Universal Display Corporation
Jaeyoon James STV Jun
Research Scientist, Facebook Reality Labs
Karla Kaun
Assistant Professor, Brown University
Takashi Kawashima
Principal Investigator, Weizmann Institute of Science, Irael
Jacob Keller
Assistant Professor, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Aaron Kerlin
Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota Medical School
Sung Soo Kim
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nikolay Kladt
Data Science Consultant, Altratn SAS Germany
Takaki Komiyama
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
Benjamin Kopek
Assistant Professor, Hope College
Doyun Lee
Tenure-track Research Fellow, Institute for Basic Science, Korea
Wesley Legant
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hsiang-Ting (Angela) Lei
Sr. Research Investigator, Incyte
Dong Li
Principal Investigator, National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics
Nuo Li
Associate Professor, Baylor University
Yajie Liang
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Huai-Ti Lin
Lecturer, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom
Bei-Jung Lin
Faculty, Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
Rui Liu
Staff Scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Tsung-Li Liu
Senior Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Zhiyong Liu
Principal Investigator and Head of the Laboratory of Auditory System Development and Regeneration, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Sarah Loerch
Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
Fuhui Long
Senior Machine Learning and Computer Vision Researcher and Developer, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Xi Salina Long
Senior Scientist, Stealth Startup
Judit Makara
Lab Head, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Hungary (KOKI)
Tianyi Mao
Assistant Scientist, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Joshua Mast
Scientist, Mission Bio, Inc.
Kate McDole
Group Leader, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom
Sean McKinney
Group Head, Stowers Institute
Geoffrey Meisner
Scienitfic Operations Manager, Janelia Research Campus
David Mellert
Sr. Scientific Writer, Jackson Laboratory
Yuriy Mishchenko
Assistant Professor, School of Engineering at Toros University, Turkey
Ethan Mohns
Associate, Yale University School of Medicine
Shelby Montague
High School Teacher, St. Johns Country Day School
William Mowrey
Bioinformatics Engineer, 1Globe Health Institute
Yu Mu
Investigator, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Neuroscience, China
Brent Nannenga
Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Joshua Neunuebel
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Jian-Quan Ni
Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Juan Nunez-Iglesias
Research Scientist, Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative
Daniel O'Connor
Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Medicine
Galit Shohat-Ophir
Lecturer / Lab Head, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Tomoko Oyama
Assistant Professor, McGill University, Canada
Yufeng Pan
Principle Investigator, Institute of Life Sciences, Southeast University, China
Min-Sun Park
Enzyme Engineer, Renewable Energy Group (REF) Life Sciences
Simon Peron
Associate Professor, New York University
Leopoldo Petreanu
Principal Investigator, Champalimaud Foundation
Lauren Porter
Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator, National Institute of Health, National Library of Medicine, Intramural Research Program
Avinash Pujala
Fellow, Insight Artificial Intelligence
Lei Qu
Professor, Anhui University, China
Gayathri Nattar Ranganathan
Senior Patent Technical Advisor, Cooley LLP
Stephen (Steve) Reichow
Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Qingzhong Ren
Scientist II, The Allen Institute
Andrey Revyakin
Lecturer, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Herve Roualt
Group Leader, Centuri, Luminy Campus, Marseille, France
Takashi Sato
Group Leader, University of Tübingen, Germany
Andrew Seeds
Assistant Professor, University of Puerto Rico
Johannes Seelig
Group Leader, The Research Center Caesar, Max Planck, Germany
Fern Sha
Scientist, The Jansen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Lisha Shao
Assistant Professor, University of Delaware
Xinghua Shi
Principal Scientist, 4Catalyzer
Troy Shirangi
Assistant Professor, Villanova University
Hari Shroff
Lab Chief/PI, National Institutes of Health, High Resolution Optical Imaging Lab
Ke Si
Professor, Optical Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
Matthew Smear
Assistant Professor, University of Oregon
Nicholas Sofroniew
Computational Biologist, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Timothy Stasevich
Assistant Professor, Colorado State University
Carsen Stringer
Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus
James Strother
Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Gowan Tervo
Senior Scientist, Janelia Research Campus
Michael Texada
Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lin Tian
Assistant Professor, University of California, Davis
Catherine von Reyn
Assistant Professor, Drexel University
Yingxue Wang
Research Group Leader, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Kai Wang
Assistant Professor, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Stephanie Wegener
Program Manager, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - German Research Foundation, Germany
Travis Wheeler
Assistant Professor, University of Montana
Jason Wittenbach
Manager, Machine Learning, Capital One
Yang Wu
Senior Managing Consultant, VOYA Consulting
Ming Wu
Senior Scientist, Salubris Biotherapeutics
Laura Wysocki
Assistant Professor, Wabash College
Ning-long Xu
Lab Head, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Ching-Po Yang
Research Specialist, Janelia Research Campus
Yunlei Yang
Associate Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Jinzhu Yang
Chief Technology Officer, Neusoft Research
Jie Yao
Instrument Specialist 3, Allen Institute
Eric Yttri
Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Jianing Yu
Assistant Professor, Peking University, China
Jin Zhang
Professor, Nanchang University, China
Hongjin Zheng
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado, Denver
Haining Zhong
Scientist/ PI, Vollum Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Chuan Zhou
Group Leader, Institute of Zoology Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jianlong Zhou
Researcher, National Information & Communications Technology Australia Limited
Maarten Zwart
Lecturer, University of St. Andrews, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, United Kingdom
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