Ben Passarelli serves as the Head of Information Technology and Data Privacy at Calico Life Sciences, where he applies computational approaches to biological research. With a background as Director of Computing at Stanford Universitys School of Medicine and holding both BS and AB degrees from Stanford, he specializes in scientific computing and IT leadership.
His work at Calico Life Sciences, a company focused on the biology of aging, led to him providing a photograph of a naked mole rat for a 2021 Wired magazine article.