Fatima Aysha Hussain is a microbial ecologist with a background in environmental engineering and women’s and gender studies. She completed her Ph.D. at MIT where she studied the ecology and evolution of prophages and phage defense elements in marine bacterial populations.

She is currently a Research Scientist and Schmidt Science Fellow at the Ragon Institute of Mass General, MIT, and Harvard where she is working in the Kwon Lab to help design genomically- and ecologically-informed microbial therapies for vaginal health by investigating bacteria-bacteria and bacteria-phage interactions.

Fatima will be starting as an Assistant Professor at Tufts University in the Fall of 2024 where her lab will focus on Phage-driven Evolution of the Vaginal Microbiome.