Wyatt Korff

Wyatt Korff currently serves as Senior Director of Team Projects at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, with an extensive career that includes roles as Director and Associate Director in the same department, focusing on the Fly (Drosophila) Olympiad—a project that innovatively explores behavioral neurobiology using fruit flies. In addition to this, Wyatt is a Strategic Advisor for Arcadia Science, promoting advancements in open science, and CoFounder and Strategist for Incentivizing Collaborative Open Research (ICOR), which fosters a collaborative research culture. Prior experience includes a postdoctoral position at the California Institute of Technology and graduate research at the University of California, Berkeley, culminating in a Ph.D. in Biology with a focus on Biomechanics. Wyatt holds a B.S. from Vassar College and completed executive education on team leadership at Wharton.