Tomasz Nowakowski is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). During his doctoral studies with David Price at the University of Edinburgh, he interrogated the role of microRNAs in radial glia maturation and neurogenesis. As a postdoctoral fellow with Arnold Kriegstein at UCSF, he used single cell mRNA sequencing to characterize cellular diversity in the developing brain. He was recruited as an Assistant Professor in 2017 and his laboratory investigates the development of the human cerebral cortex using high throughput single cell genomics with the generous support from the NIH, Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, and the Simons Foundation for Autism Research. He is a Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator, as well as a member of the Weill Institute for Neurosciences, and of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.