Giorgos joined SBGrid in 2020 to help maintain the Consortium's website and the SBGrid installation client. He is a Python developer based in Greece and brings with him over 10 years of industry experience in web development nd software engineering. Giorgos has a background in computer science and he received his Master's degree from Imperial College London and a BSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Sakthyda acts as a key contact for SBGrid member labs, assisting with user management and credential requests and coordinating invoices for annual membership. She provides support to the whole SBGrid team, managing purchases and schedules, organizing events, and keeping everything moving.

Jamaine is collaborating on projects to expand education and training for historically underserved communities and joined our Advisory Board in 2020. An Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology at Meharry Medical College, Jamaine has a longstanding interest in mentoring the next generation of scientists and is working to create innovative opportunities for researchers to interact with the public to improve communication. Jamaine's research is focused on understanding how cellular components lose their ability to function and describing the precise ways that people who carry genetic mutations develop disease. He completed his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania and postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute.

Ben rejoined SBGrid in 2023 to architect a structural biology-focused, workflow-optimized cloud infrastructure. He comes with a truly unique background, most recently working as a DevOps Engineer at Amazon, but also with deep institutional knowledge from 7 years building up SBGrid, curating software and developing relationships with scientists and software developers. Years ago he discovered the meaning of life, and he uses it as his SSH key.

Alice is a structural biologist from Aotearoa New Zealand and a research fellow who joined SBGrid’s cryo-EM teaching team in 2025. In response to the steep learning curve involved in cryo-EM troubleshooting, she is developing a database of curated training data to support curriculum development and teaching. She holds a PhD degree from the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, in which she specialized in X-ray crystallography and cryo-EM.

Estrella joined us in 2024 to support SBGrid member labs in the European region and curate SBGrid's software collections. She works remotely from Madrid, Spain. Her research background is in the development of algorithms for CryoEM image processing. She holds a Ph.D. from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Spanish National Center for Biotechnology - CSIC under the direction of Dr. C.O. Sorzano and Prof. J.M. Carazo. She completed her graduate studies in Telecommunications Engineering and Biomedical Engineering and a M.Sc. in Biophysics.

Grisenny joined the SBGrid team in 2023. She acts as a key contact for contributing software developers, departmental staff, and collaborating groups and institutions to expand membership services. She provides support to the SBGrid team, content coordination for communications and marketing efforts, organizing events, and other operational logistics. Grisenny comes with a background in hospitality and over 10 years experience in customer service.

Carol compiles and maintains software for the SBGrid/BioGrids collections. She came to us with a background in computer science and software configuration management and quality assurance. Carol received her Bachelor of Science and Master's degrees in computer science from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania. Find out More »

Alex joined the SBGrid team in 2022. He works with industry and academic members to identify their technical, functional, and business requirements for computing and contributes to the roadmap for SBGrid's future directions. He comes with a background as a massively parallel computing researcher at Caltech and IBM and a serial entrepreneur with successful VC fundraising experience. Alex also worked as technology lead for nonprofits on digital literacy for three years before joining the team. He graduated from Cornell University with an M.S. degree and studied at Caltech in a Ph.D. program examining oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer at the air-water interface in turbulent mixing environments.

Kurtacts as director of SBGrid's Austrailasian outpost at the University of Otago in New Zealand and joined our advisory board in 2020. Dr. Krause completed his medical studies at Baylor College of Medicine (Houston, Texas) and his PhD in the Chemistry Department at Harvard University (Boston, USA). He was an Associate Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Biochemistry and Chemistry at the University of Houston before moving to New Zealand in 2005 where he is a Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Otago in Dunedin. His research is focussed on the structural biology of infectious diseases and bioluminescence.

Pete develops access toin silico docking tools, manages WSMR and DEN computing portals, and contributes as a software curator and release engineer. Pete also acts as chief curator for the SBGrid Data Bank, described in ourNature Communication manuscript, moderating data uptake, developing automated data validation tools, and working on implementation of the Data Locality module that will propagate a subset of SBDB datasets to various supercomputing sites. Dr. Meyer joined the SBGrid team in 2014 after completing his postdoctoral training at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Cornell University. During his graduate and postdoctoral work, he studied a variety of RNA Polymerase II Transcription Factor Complexes, using and improving methods for studying large complexes with low-resolution x-ray crystallography. He is also an experienced computing programmer and Linux administrator.

Carol is an independent science journalist with a background in research communications and has specialized in science-related topics for more than 30 years. She interviews SBGrid/BioGrids members and contributing developers and writes stories for publication on the SBGrid website several times a year.

Thomas joined us in 2022 to support SBGrid member labs in the Australasian region. He works remotely from the SBGrid outpost at University of Otago in New Zealand under the direction of Prof. Kurt Krause. He completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Otago and his research background is in bioinformatics, focusing on the genetics of non-coding RNAs. He is experienced in using and developing software tools and pipelines to carry out statistical analysis in datasets.

Michelle manages business operations for SBGrid, leading outreach and communications, developing education initiatives and programs for community engagement and partnerships, budget and financial forecasting, purchasing, and legal compliance.

David is a computer scientist specializing in high-performance computing and computational methods for cryo-electron microscopy who joined the team in 2026. His work focuses on accelerating large-scale biological image-processing pipelines using GPU-based technologies to enable faster structural biology research. He completed his doctoral research through a cotutelle (joint PhD) arrangement between Masaryk University in the Czech Republic and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in Spain. Based in southern Spain, Střelák curates SBGrid's software collection and supports SBGrid member labs in the European region.

Marlon provides part-time support to SBGrid staff. He has 18 years of IT experience working as a Systems Administrator and Networking Analyst for Boston Children's Hospital.

Fikir joined Harvard in 2023 as a systems administrator for operations infrastructure. His time is split between support for the SBGrid team and contributions to the larger community with HMS IT. Fikir completed his B.S. in Information Technology from UMass Boston while working as a Hack Diversity Fellow before joining Rapid7.