Jill Fuss

Jill Fuss (she/her) is managing director of the Activate Berkeley Community, where she uses her technical and startup expertise to mentor fellows. She spent 20 years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researching the structural biology and molecular mechanisms of DNA repair enzymes. During her time at Berkeley Lab, she co-founded Cinder Biological, Inc., a biotech company producing industrial enzymes, and was an Activate Fellow in the 2018 cohort. Fuss has a Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from U.C. Berkeley and a B.A. in environmental science from Wesleyan University.