Todd Fallesen

Todd has been an Image Analyst at the Crick since 2018, specialising in using machine learning and HPC to help users analyse big data sets.

Todd received a Bachelors of Science from St Lawrence University, majoring in Physics and Biology. He received his PhD in Physics from Wake Forest University, before starting a Post-doctoral position in the laboratory of Thomas Surrey, using optical trapping to study the microtubule motor Cin8. After briefly working in Light Sheet Microscopy at Imperial College London and a semester teaching Astrobiology at NYU-London, Todd returned as an image analyst to the Francis Crick Institute.

In 2022, Todd became a Chartered Scientist through the Institute of Physics. He is also a member of the Royal Microscopy Society.