Ellen Goldberg is president of the Santa Fe Institute, an organization in New Mexico that hosts faculty consisting of Nobel Laureates, members of the National Academy of Sciences and MacArthur Fellows from around the world involved in interdisciplinary research. She is also a research professor in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico. Dr. Goldberg is a member of the Biology Advisory Committee of the National Science Foundation, and of the National Advisory Allergy and Infectious Diseases Council at the National Institutes of Health. She has served in various positions at the University of New Mexico, including Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Associate Provost of Research and Dean of Graduate Studies. Dr. Goldberg received her Ph.D. in genetics from Cornell University Medical College, New York.