Andrew Champion
Andrew Champion is a computational neuroscientist with a broad background using image processing, machine learning, high performance computing, and graph analysis to transform microscopy into scientific discovery. During his PhD jointly between HHMI Janelia and the University of Cambridge, Andrew developed methods and tools for correlating whole-central nervous system functional activity imaging of fruit fly larvae with connectomics data. As a postdoc with Cambridge and visiting scientist at the Laboratory for Molecular Biology, Andrew contributed to several landmark fruit fly connectomics datasets, including [the first male nerve cord](https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/97766) and [the first complete male central nervous system](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.09.680999v2.abstract). Previously at Janelia, Andrew co-developed the pioneering connectomics reconstruction tool CATMAID and was a member of the FlyTEM project which acquired the first connectomics dataset of a complete fruit fly brain.