Lior Pachter

Lior Samuel Pachter

Lior Pachter in 2013
Born (1973-05-03) May 3, 1973
Ramat Gan, Israel
Alma mater California Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Domino Tiling, Gene Recognition and Mice (1999)
Doctoral advisor Bonnie Berger
Spouse Ingileif Bryndís Hallgrímsdóttir
Children Three daughters

Lior Pachter is a computational biologist. He works at the University of California, Berkeley, where he holds the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Chair in Computational Biology; he is also a professor of molecular and cell biology, mathematics, and computer science at Berkeley. He has widely varied research interests including genomics, combinatorics, computational geometry, machine learning, scientific computing, and statistics.[1]

Pachter was born in Israel, and grew up in South Africa.[2] He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1994.[1] He completed his doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, supervised by Bonnie Berger,[3] with Eric Lander and Daniel Kleitman as co-advisors.[1] He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1999, and was given the Sackler Chair in 2012.[1]

As well as for his technical contributions, Pachter is known for using new media to promote open science,[4] and for a thought experiment he posted on his blog according to which 'the nearest neighbor to the "perfect human"' is from Puerto Rico.[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae: Lior Pachter (PDF), March 2015, retrieved 2015-10-22.
  2. Eskenazi, Joe (June 14, 2002), "U.C. divestment petition troubles pro-Israel activists", Jweekly.
  3. Lior Pachter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Lesen, Amy E. (2015), "A new paradigm for science communication? Social media, twitter, science, and public engagement: a literature review", in Lesen, Amy E., Scientists, Experts, and Civic Engagement: Walking a Fine Line, Ashgate Studies in Environmental Policy and Practice, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., pp. 111–136, ISBN 9781472415240. See in particular pp. 119–120.
  5. Valdez, Maria G. (December 4, 2014), "New Study Reveals The Perfect Human Genetically Speaking Is From This Caribbean Island!", Latin Times.
  6. Oleksyk, Taras K.; Martinez-Cruzado, Juan Carlos (February 5, 2015), "Why There Is No Perfect Human In Puerto Rico or Anywhere Else", Scientific American.

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