Amy Norovich, Ph.D.

Amy Norovich, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientific Officer of the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) and Neuroscience Collaborations. In her role at SFARI, Norovich helps shape and manage SFARI’s grant portfolio, with a focus on grants involving work in animal models. In her role at Neuroscience Collaborations, she helps to identify and shapes the foundation’s neuroscience collaborations, which bring together outstanding scientists to address fundamental questions about brain function. Through this dual role, she facilitates strategic communication and aids in aligning priorities between SFARI and Neuroscience Collaborations.

Before joining the foundation, Norovich was a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia’s Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute where studied social behavior in a novel animal model. Her postdoctoral work was supported by a Junior Fellowship from the Simons Society of Fellows and she was a K99 recipient. Norovich earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Columbia University where she studied the developmental specification of spinal circuits for motor control.