| Ludmil Alexandrov | |
| Birth Name: | Ludmil B. Alexandrov |
| Fields: | Computational Biology Cancer Genomics Mutagenesis Ageing Bioinformatics |
| Workplaces: | Los Alamos National Laboratory Wellcome Sanger Institute UC San Diego |
| Alma Mater: | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis Title: | Signatures of mutational processes in human cancer |
| Thesis Url: | ftp://ftp.sanger.ac.uk/pub/resources/theses/la2/alexandrov_ludmil_thesis.pdf |
| Thesis Year: | 2014 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Michael Stratton[1] |
| Known For: | Mutational signatures |
Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.[2] [3] [4] [5]
Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.[1]
Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.[6]
Alexandrov's research interests are in computational biology, cancer genomics, mutagenesis, ageing and bioinformatics. Alexandrov is one of the co-leaders of the Mutographs of Cancer project, a £20 million Grand Challenge Project funded by Cancer Research UK "to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer-causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer."[7] [8]