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10 Anthropic research scientists
These ten current and former Anthropic researchers have held research roles at the company, from Research Scientist and Researcher to Life Science Researcher and Member of Technical Staff. A reader can learn what research scientist work at Anthropic involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Abhinand Sivaprasad
LinkedInExperience: Researcher · Anthropic
Researcher at Anthropic since October 2024; the role description says they are primarily focused on RL research and long horizon tasks. Before Anthropic they were a Quantitative Trader at Jane Street Capital (2021–2024), co-founded Lang API (2019–2020) and interned in trading at Optiver.
Behnam Neyshabur
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic from December 2024 to December 2025; the profile says they were a Research Scientist there, co-leading the Discovery team working toward an AI scientist and engineer. Before Anthropic they were a Senior Staff Research Scientist & Team Lead at Google DeepMind (2019–2024), and they now lead Mirendil as Co-Founder & CEO.
Ben Bartlett
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since June 2026; the profile says they are a researcher at Anthropic working on model performance. Before joining they were a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI (2024–2026) and a Quantum Computer Architect at PsiQuantum, after a PhD in applied physics at Stanford designing nanophotonic chips.
Carlos Florensa
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Anthropic
Research Scientist at Anthropic since July 2026, in the Research department. Before joining they were a Research Scientist at OpenAI (2024–2026) and at Covariant (2019–2024), and earlier a research intern at NVIDIA (2019) and at Google DeepMind (2018).
Danny Hernandez
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Anthropic
Research Scientist at Anthropic since February 2021, in the Research department, a role that has run for more than five years. Before Anthropic they were a Research Scientist at OpenAI (2019–2021) and a Data Scientist at Twitch (2013–2017), after earlier engineering, product and project management work at Twitch.
Jonathan Heek
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Anthropic
Research Scientist at Anthropic since March 2026, based in the Netherlands, in the Research department. Before joining they were a Research Software Engineer at Google from 2018 to 2026, and earlier a Software Developer at Maxxton and Zig; they were also on the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics.
Kunal Handa
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since August 2024, with the headline Research Scientist at Anthropic; the role description says Research Scientist, Societal Impacts and lists the Anthropic Economic Index, Anthropic Education Report and Clio. Before Anthropic they were a researcher at the University of Oxford, Stanford University and Brown University.
Matthew G. Durrant
LinkedInExperience: Life Science Researcher · Anthropic
Life Science Researcher at Anthropic since November 2025, in the Research department. Before joining they were a Senior Fellow at FutureHouse (2025), a Principal Research Scientist at Arc Institute (2022–2025), a computational biology consultant at Pragma Bio and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley.
Max Schwarzer
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since March 2026, with the headline Researcher at Anthropic, formerly VP of post-training at OpenAI. At OpenAI they were a Member of Technical Staff (2023–2025) and VP of Research (2025–2026), after a PhD at Mila working on sample-efficient reinforcement learning and self-supervised learning.
Tim Salimans
LinkedInExperience: Member of Technical Staff · Anthropic
Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic since April 2026. The profile describes a machine learning research scientist working on generative modeling, semi-supervised and unsupervised learning and reinforcement learning, known for work on GANs and the Inception score. Before Anthropic they were a Research Scientist & Team Lead at Google DeepMind and at OpenAI.
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Match the person's research area to your question, since reinforcement learning, model performance, generative modeling, societal impacts and life sciences research each ask different questions. Look at where they did research before Anthropic, such as Google DeepMind, OpenAI or academic labs, and whether they are still there, because that shapes how they compare research cultures.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How do research teams at Anthropic decide which directions are worth a large training run?
- 02How does research at an AI lab differ from research in academia or at a big tech lab?
- 03What does a typical research project look like from idea to result on a frontier model?
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