Ivan Lebedev

Ivan Lebedev, PhD, is the Founding Steward of the Verdant Center for Spatial Biology, a nonprofit organization advancing measurement-first approaches for spatial multi-omics across plant, environmental, and ecological systems. His work focuses on integrating transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, lipidomics, imaging, and spectroscopy into interoperable frameworks that preserve biological context while improving interpretation and accessibility. Dr. Lebedev earned his doctorate in Biochemistry and Structural Biology from Stony Brook University and has worked across academia, biotechnology, and instrumentation, including structural biology, proteomics, mass spectrometry, and spatial biology. Through Verdant, he develops open educational resources, multidisciplinary collaborations, and visualization approaches that help researchers explore complex biological systems without separating molecular information from the tissues and environments that generate it. His current work emphasizes