Victor M. Markowitz is chief informatics officer and associate director at DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI),[1] and head of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Biological Data Management and Technology Center.[2]
He received his M.Sc. and D.Sc. degrees in computer science from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.[3] Markowitz has authored articles and book chapters on various aspects of data management[4] and served on review panels and program committees for database and bioinformatics programs and conferences.