Nathaniel Mohatt, Ph.D.

Nathaniel Mohatt joined ARPA-H as a Program Manager in January 2025 with an interest in technologies to optimize the restorative effects of sleep. A community psychologist, Mohatt’s focus is on increasing health and well-being from brain to community. Prior to joining ARPA-H, he worked as a lead scientist and advisor at Booz Allen Hamilton, supporting programs in suicide prevention and neuroscience at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. 

Mohatt completed his doctorate at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, with a postdoctoral fellowship in substance abuse prevention at Yale University School of Medicine. He has served as faculty at Yale and the University of Colorado Anschutz, led community-based suicide prevention research at the VA, and advised for the Military Operational Medicine Research Program.