Prachee has spent most of her academic life advancing Open Science. With a PhD in neuroscience, Prachee was previously an Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Cell Biology at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine. She is co-founder and Chief Science Officer at Arcadia Science; former president of the ASAPbio Board of Directors, former director and chair of the board at eLife, a member of Incentivizing Collaborative and Open Research; and a bioRxiv affiliate. As Astera’s Head of Open Science, Prachee leads the effort to experiment with approaches and develop tools that push the boundaries of open science.