Lior Pachter
| Lior Samuel Pachter | |
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Lior Pachter in 2013
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| 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.
Pachter was born in Israel, and grew up in South Africa. He earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the California Institute of Technology in 1994. He completed his doctorate in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999, supervised by Bonnie Berger, with Eric Lander and Daniel Kleitman as co-advisors. He joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1999, and was given the Sackler Chair in 2012.
As well as for his technical contributions, Pachter is known for using new media to promote open science, and for a thought experiment he posted on his blog according to which 'the nearest neighbor to the "perfect human"' is from Puerto Rico. This received considerable media attention and a response was published in Scientific American.
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