Silvana Konermann

Silvana Konermann is a Swiss-American biochemist whose research involves CRISPR, Cas9, and their use in genome editing. She is an assistant professor of biochemistry at Stanford University, as well as the Director and co-founder of the Arc Institute in Palo Alto. Konermann attended the prestigious Sächsisches Landesgymnasium Sankt Afra zu Meißen in Saxony, Germany, before matriculating in 2006 at ETH Zurich, where she completed her bachelor of science degree in neurobiology in three years. She then moved to the United States and worked in the lab of Carlos Lois before entering the doctoral program in neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving her Ph.D. in 2016. Since 2017, she has been an HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow. She has also been a CZ Biohub Investigator and a postdoctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

21546 Konermann, a minor planet, was named after Konermann, in honor of her 2006 second-place finish in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair. At that time she was a senior at Sankt Afra.[2]

In June 2022, Konermann married Irish tech billionaire Patrick Collison, who is co-founder and CEO of Stripe, Inc., with whom she co-founded the Arc Institute.[3] Konermann met Collison during the 2004 EU Young Scientist competition.[3]