Lior Pachter
| Lior Samuel Pachter | |
|---|---|
 Lior Pachter in 2013 | |
| Born |
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 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae: Lior Pachter (PDF), March 2015, retrieved 2015-10-22.
- ↑ Eskenazi, Joe (June 14, 2002), "U.C. divestment petition troubles pro-Israel activists", Jweekly.
- ↑ Lior Pachter at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Valdez, Maria G. (December 4, 2014), "New Study Reveals The Perfect Human Genetically Speaking Is From This Caribbean Island!", Latin Times.
- ↑ Oleksyk, Taras K.; Martinez-Cruzado, Juan Carlos (February 5, 2015), "Why There Is No Perfect Human In Puerto Rico or Anywhere Else", Scientific American.