Ben Fogelson with his dog Frida. She's looking for bits of taco on the floor.

Ben Fogelson is a staff data scientist on the drug discovery team at Recursion Pharmaceuticals. Prior to that, he was a mathematical biologist at the University of Utah, where he studied problems in cell biomechanics. Ben has written about his own work and reported on other scientific breakthroughs for Scientific American. Ben has a PhD in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.