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Led by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, we are assembling a team of the best and brightest at the University of Toronto, across Canada, and beyond to tackle some of the world’s greatest collective challenges.

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AC Team

Nasim Abdollahi
Staff Scientist
Mehrad Ansari
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Loryn Arnett
Business Development & Partnerships Analyst, Acceleration Consortium
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Director, Acceleration Consortium
Yang Bai
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Sterling Baird
Director, Training and Programs, Acceleration Consortium
Zeqing Bao
Staff Research Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Joseph Brown
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Carla Brown
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Sean Caffrey
Executive Director, Acceleration Consortium
Yang Cao
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Kelvin Chow
Lab Technician, Acceleration Consortium
Aaron Clasky
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Kourosh Darvish
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Sissi Feng
Software Engineer, Acceleration Consortium
Stacy Filenkova
Business Officer, Acceleration Consortium
Padraic Foley
Director, Strategy & Partnerships, Acceleration Consortium
Stuart Green
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Xiaoman Guo
Staff Research Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Nipun Gupta
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Han Hao
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Eric Isbrandt
Staff Research Scientist
Rosanna Jiang
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Rachel Keunen
Lab Manager, Acceleration Consortium
Erin Konsmo
Staff Research Scholar, Indigenous Science, Technology and Environment, Acceleration Consortium
Fareeda Lakhani
EDI and Programs Officer, Acceleration Consortium
Frantz Le Dévédec
Senior Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Daniel Lin
Staff Scientist
Brandon Lines
Business Development Officer, Acceleration Consortium
Owen Melville
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Harrison Mills
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Amin Morteza Najjariyan
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Sergio Pablo-García Carrillo
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Anne Robinson
Communications & Events Specialist, Acceleration Consortium
Santha Santhakumar
Senior Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Reena Shadaan
Staff Research Scholar, STS and Sustainability, Acceleration Consortium
Ali Shayesteh
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Brandon Sutherland
Director, Research Operations, Acceleration Consortium
Wei Yang Tham
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Ekaterina Trushina
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Joyce Wang
Administrative Officer, Acceleration Consortium
Erin Warner
Director, Marketing & Communications, Acceleration Consortium
Christine Wong-Retnakaran
Administrative Assistant, Acceleration Consortium
Ilya Yakavets
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Yimu Zhao
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium
Zahra (Sonia) Azimi Dijvejin
Staff Scientist, Acceleration Consortium

Scientific Leadership Team

Christine Allen
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Cheryl Arrowsmith
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Director, Acceleration Consortium
Robert Batey
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Curtis P. Berlinguette
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Avi Goldfarb
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Frank Gu
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Jason Hattrick-Simpers
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Jason Hein
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Anatole von Lilienfeld
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Murphy
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Milica Radisic
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Sophie Rousseaux
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Dwight Seferos
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Florian Shkurti
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
David Sinton
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Vuk Stambolic
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium
Helen Tran
Scientific leadership team member, Acceleration Consortium

Strategic Advisory Council

Rhonda Germany Ballintyn
Chair and President, Germany Ballintyn Education Foundation (GBEF)
Donna Blackmond
The John C. Martin Endowed Chair in Chemistry, Scripps Research
Christoph Brabec
Materials Science and Engineering, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Andy Cooper
Professor, University of Liverpool
Tony Gaffney
Special Advisor to the Chair, Vector Institute
Bazan Guillermo Carlos
SAC Chair, Director, Institute For Digital Molecular Analytics and Science Professor, School of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Jean-François Houle
Vice President Engineering, National Research Council Canada
Alison Nankivell
CEO, MaRS
Ranjana Sharma
Chief Scientist, Natural Resources Canada
Tejs Vegge
Professor, Technical University of Denmark
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