Leo Schärfen, PhD

Assistant Professor

Maraganore Fellow

Leo received BSc and MSc degrees from TU Dresden, and his PhD from Yale. Leo joined UMass Chan as a fellow in 2025.

Laura Cummings

Administrative Coordinator

Laura makes sure that everything runs smoothly, keeping our research moving forward. Laura joined UMass Chan in 2021.

Hayley Wigren

Research Associate

Hayley received a BS/MS degree from Worcester Polytech and works on the functional characterization of RNA structure libraries.

Kelly Cochran, PhD

Postdoc

Kelly received her undergraduate degree from Duke and PhD from Stanford. Kelly is a joint member of our lab and the Pai lab.