Mikhail Gelfand
Mikhail Gelfand | |
|---|---|
| Михаил Гельфанд | |
Gelfand in 2013 | |
| Born | 25 October 1963 |
| Citizenship | Soviet Union, Russian Federation |
| Alma mater | MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Bioinformatics, molecular biology |
| Institutions | Russian Academy of Sciences Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Higher School of Economics |
| Doctoral advisor | Simon Gindikin |
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Гельфанд; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and molecular biologist. He is a member of Academia Europaea, Vice President Biomedical Research of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, one of the founder of Dissernet plagiarism fighting society and a political activist, former member of Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He is a grandson of a prominent Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.