Boahemaa is Terrana’s Director of Computational Biology and Data Science, responsible for developing and implementing Terrana’s data strategy to fully integrate data science, bioinformatics, and machine learning.  

Boahemaa’s professional expertise is in microbial genomics, and she has held roles as a bioinformatic scientist, and Director of Data Science. Before joining Flagship, Boahemaa excelled as the Director of Data Science at Pluton Biosciences for 2 years, where she drove microbial discovery and delivered critical analyses that were instrumental in securing a successful Series A funding round. Her work has resulted in multiple pending patents. She has also worked at Thermo Fisher Scientific where she served as a field bioinformatic scientist training customers and providing custom bioinformatic analysis support for the Ion Torrent and Genexus both next-generation sequencing instruments. Prior to her time at Thermo Fisher Scientific, she worked as a computational microbiologist at Monsanto and transitioned to a Data Scientist at Bayer Crop Science. While there she designed and implemented a metagenomics pipeline enabled in AWS and led the Biotech Data Fluency Program.  

Boahemaa’s graduate research explored microbial ecology, studying how community dynamics affect human and plant hosts, including implications for host range and susceptibility to illness. She is also the co-founder of the Show Me The World Project, a non-profit that provides youth from under-resourced communities equitable access to transformative educational experiences at home and abroad. The motivation behind the non-profit was driven by her time as the Director of the Young Scientist Program leading over 100 active volunteer scientists with the mission of bringing experiential learning to disadvantaged K-12 students during her time as a graduate student. She is a past awardee of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, Gerry and Bob Virgil Ethic of Service, Edward A. Bouchet Fellow, Mellon Mays Fellow, Outstanding Director of YSP and Distinguished Individual Leader from the Arts and Science Graduate School at Washington University in St. Louis.   

Boahemaa holds a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution and Population Biology from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.S. in Evolution and Ecology from Rice University.