Mikhail Gelfand | |
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Михаил Гельфанд | |
Born | |
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[1] |
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Гельфанд; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and molecular biologist.[2] He is a member of Academia Europaea, Vice President Biomedical Research of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,[3] one of the founder of Dissernet plagiarism fighting society[4] and a political activist, former member of Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He is a grandson of a prominent Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.[5]