Natalia Volfovsky

Dr. Natalia Volfovsky is the Data Science Program Officer in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), Division of Neuroscience, within the National Institutes of Health. Her focus areas are data science, bioinformatics, computational genomics, and data sharing, including data access, curation, and harmonization.

Before joining NINDS in 2024, Volfovsky was senior director of data and analytics at Simons Foundation, where she led a team of bioinformatics engineers and data analysts that supported multiple data-driven projects funded by Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) and Neuroscience Collaborations. Her team focused on developing computational tools that facilitate responsible data sharing and analyzing high-scale genomic, phenotypic, and demographic data generated by SFARI cohorts. Prior to joining the foundation, Volfovsky served as manager of the computational genomics group at the Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research (FNLCR) in Maryland. She previously was a senior program analyst at SAIC.

Volfovsky holds an M.S. in mathematics from Kharkiv State University, Ukraine, a Ph.D. in computer science from Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and completed her postdoctoral work in bioinformatics at the Institute for Genomic Research.