Leigh Needleman, PhD
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Leigh Needleman manages the intricate details of the Rowland Institute – from hiring, budgeting, programmatic planning, to organizing gatherings and much more.
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Winfield Hill
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As the Director of Electronics Engineering at the Rowland Institute, Win oversees a fully appointed electronics engineering laboratory with instrumentation benches, an extensive suite of electronic test and measurement instrumentation, and a substantial...
Michael Burns, PhD
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Mike Burns works closely with each of our Rowland Fellows to advise and guide on their research goals, laboratories, and future plans. He is integral to the recruitment process.
Michael Desai, PhD
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Michael Desai is a recovering physicist and current evolutionary biologist. He joined the Rowland Institute as Director in 2026. His research focuses on population and quantitative genetics, and he is broadly interested in applying theoretical...
John McKenna
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Christina Daly, PhD
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Christina Daly earned her PhD from The University of Texas at Austin studying the molecular and genetic pathways involved in temperature-dependent sex determination in reptiles, under Dr. David Crews. She continued pursuing her fascination with evo-devo...
Chris Stokes
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Cathleen Hallinan
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Amy Zou
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Amy is the financial guru of Rowland Institute. She handles the day-to-day financial operation and provides assistance on capital equipment purchases, trainings on the Harvard Financial Applications, and pre-award and post-award assistance on sponsored...
Alexis Loving
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Alexis has been a Staff Assistant at the Rowland Institute since 2015. Alexis wears many hats at Rowland, including website maintenance, Rowland Fellows recruitment, events coordinator, assisting with on-boarding of new postdocs and Fellows, as well as...