People
The people who build and govern scverse, in a handful of different roles.
407 people have contributed code to scverse. More have made contributions by reporting bugs, answering questions and providing feedback that are not explicitly listed here. Every project is open to contributions and everyone who uses it is part of the community — come and join us.
The team
The following people hold an official role within scverse.
Roles are explained on the roles page.
The Core Team governs scverse and is deeply involved in developing and maintaining scverse packages.
Core Developers are core team members who make significant code contributions to scverse and maintain its core packages.
Core Community members grow and support the scverse community through events, workshops and outreach.
Core Governance coordinates across the core team and takes care of funding and the day-to-day running of scverse.
The Steering Council consists of a fixed number of core team members who have additional responsibilities to ensure the smooth running of the project.
Trusted community members responsible for essential parts of scverse.
The Management Committee is committed to supporting scverse and is directly involved in investing in its progress.
The Scientific Advisory Board helps to shape the overall vision for scverse and to define its priorities.
Former core team members who made essential contributions to scverse.

Philipp Angerer
core devs core governance
Helmholtz Munich
anndata
scanpy

Pau Badia i Mompel
core devs core governance
Stanford University
decoupler

Danila Bredikhin
core community core governance steering council
Stanford University
mudata
muon

Emma Dann
core community core governance
Stanford University
community events

Severin Dicks
core devs core governance
NVIDIA
rapids-singlecell

Can Ergen-Behr
core community core governance
Helmholtz Munich & University of Würzburg
scvi-tools
Jennifer Foltz
core community core governance
Washington University
community

Ilan Gold
core devs core governance
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
anndata
scanpy

Muskan Hashim
core community core governance
Helmholtz Munich
community

Lukas Heumos
core devs core community core governance steering council
NVIDIA
pertpy
operations

Sara Jimenez
core community core governance
NVIDIA
grants workshops

Ilia Kats
core devs
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
mudata
muon

Mikaela Koutrouli
core devs core community core governance steering council
NVIDIA
sc-proteomics operations

Ori Kronfeld
core devs
Weizmann Institute of Science
scvi-tools

Luca Marconato
core devs core governance
EMBL Heidelberg
spatialdata

Jose Nimo
core community core governance proteomics WG
Max Delbrück Center Berlin
sc-proteomics events

Roshan Sharma
core community core governance
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
grants workshops

Gregor Sturm
core devs
Boehringer Ingelheim
scirpy

Tim Treis
core devs core community core governance
Helmholtz Munich
spatialdata-plot
squidpy

Wouter-Michiel Vierdag
core devs core governance
EMBL Heidelberg
spatialdata
Kai Zhang
core devs
Westlake University
snapatac2

Malte Kuehl
helping hands proteomics WG
Aarhus University
website spatial proteomics agentic ai

Mikkel Niklas Rasmussen
helping hands
DTU
ecosystem review

Kartik Singhal
helping hands
Washington University, St Louis
social media
Francesca Finotello
management
Rob Patro
management
Panos Roussos
management
Julio Saez-Rodriguez
management
Oliver Stegle
management
Fabian Theis
management
Nir Yosef
management
Bonnie Berger
advisory board
Dana Pe'er
advisory board
Aviv Regev
advisory board
Sarah Teichmann
advisory board
Alex Wolf
advisory board

Adam Gayoso
alumni

Martin Kim
alumni

Giovanni Palla
alumni

Anna Schaar
alumni

Isaac Virshup
alumni
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Working groups
Working groups bring together people from inside and outside the team around one area of scverse.
Proteomics Working Group
A collaborative community advancing single-cell and spatial proteomics across methodology, software, and community engagement.
10 members
Jose Nimo
Max Delbrück Center Berlin
Malte Kuehl
Aarhus University- Pedro Aragon
- Vincenth Brennsteiner
Lucas Diedrich- Benjamin Furtwängler
- Sergio Marco Salas
Matthias Meyer-Bender- Theodoros Visvikis
Harald Voehringer