Dr. Fatma Kaplan is the co-founder, CEO of Pheronym. She is an entrepreneur and accomplished scientist with experience in both biology and chemistry. She has a Ph.D. in Plant Molecular and Cellular Biology and postdoc in Natural Product Chemistry with a focus on isolating biologically active compounds. Dr. Kaplan discovered the first sex pheromone of the nematode C. elegans. She conducted the first agricultural biocontrol experiment in Space at the International Space Station in 2020. Dr. Kaplan worked as a scientist at NASA, the National Magnetic Field Laboratory and the USDA-ARS.