Kenneth Hayworth

Kenneth Jeffrey "Ken" Hayworth is an American neuroscientist. He is the president and co-founder of the Brain Preservation Foundation (BPF).

Hayworth received his PhD degree in neuroscience from the University of Southern California. His doctoral thesis is named "Explicit Encoding of Spatial Relations in the Human Visual System: Evidence from Functional Neuroimaging" (2009). After graduating, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University in the laboratory of Jeff Lichtman.

Currently, he is a Senior Scientist at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Farm Research Campus (JFRC) in Ashburn, Virginia. According to the BPF website, JFRC is perhaps the leading research institution in the field of connectomics in the United States. At JFRC, Hayworth is currently researching ways to extend Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (FIBSEM) imaging of brain tissue to encompass much larger volumes than are currently possible. He is a co-inventor of the Tape-to-SEM process for high-throughput volume imaging of neural circuits at the nanometer scale, and he designed and built several automated machines to implement this process.

He is a member of the UK Cryonics and Cryopreservation Research Network. He is a signatory of the Scientists' Open Letter on Cryonics, having signed it on October 22, 2010.

Hayworth is a vocal advocate for mind uploading. In 2015, he said he wishes that all cryonics organizations would stop offering cryopreservation services until, at a minimum, they demonstrate in an animal model that their methods and procedures are effective at preserving ultrastructure across the entire brain.