Sylvain Costes's Biography

Sylvain Costes, Chief for the Space Biosciences Research Branch, NASA Ames Research Center

Dr. Costes is the Branch Chief for the Space Biosciences Research Branch at NASA Ames research center and a senior research scientist leading the Ames radiation biophysics laboratory. He obtained his Ph.D. in the Nuclear Engineering Department at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied radiation biology. Dr. Costes has spent his career leading multidisciplinary research teams in both academic and government scientific institutions. As a staff scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, he was modeling risk for the NASA Human research program and developing biomarkers for the DOE low dose program. He is now the project manager for Open Science at NASA Biology and Physical Science Division, where he leads the systems biology research, AI/ML modeling initiative and the software development for two large NASA data systems: the GeneLab Omics repository and the ALSDA repository for physiological data from spaceflight relevant experiments.