Ari Handel is a Swiss-born American neuroscientist, film producer and writer.
He is known for co-writing the films Noah and The Fountain with his Harvard Dunster House suitemate Darren Aronofsky and for producing these films along with four other films: The Wrestler, Black Swan, Mother!, and The Whale.
Handel grew up in a Jewish family in Newton, Massachusetts.
He was born in Zürich, Switzerland, while his father was studying abroad, but he only lived there for about a year.
Handel had an internship for Nova at WGBH, the Boston PBS station.