Eran Elhaik

Eran Elhaik
Born	1980 Israel
Residence	Sheffield, United Kingdom
Nationality	Israeli and American
Fields	Genetics, bioinformatics, Population genetics
Institutions	Johns Hopkins University, University of Sheffield
Alma mater	University of Houston
Doctoral advisor	Dan Graur

Eran Elhaik (born 1980 in Israel) is an Israeli-American geneticist and bioinformatician. His research uses computational, statistical, epidemiological and mathematical approaches to fields such as complex disorders, population genetics, personalised medicine, molecular evolution, genomics, paleogenomics and epigenetics.

After completing undergraduate studies in Israel, he obtained a PhD in molecular evolution under the supervision of Dan Graur at the University of Houston in 2009, followed by postdoctoral research fellowships at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and School of Public Health. Since 2014 he works at the University of Sheffield Department of Animal and Plant Sciences.

In the field of molecular evolution, Elhaik worked on the compositional domain model that describes the compositional organization of animal genomes.

In the field of complex disorders, he proposed that the allostatic load theory could be used to explain bipolar disorder and Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). According to this theory, the accumulation of perinatal and prenatal stressors has neurotoxic effects with consequences to one's health.

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