Graduated from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (1986)

PhD in molecular biology from the Institute of Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (Moscow, 1995).

Developed algorithms and software for physical map construction during PhD research at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund (London, UK, 1992-1995).

Scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics (Berlin, Germany, 1995-98).

Group leader at GPC Biotech (Martinsried, Germany, 1998-2001).

Scientific Director, Bioinformatics at GPC Biotech (Martinsried, Germany, from 2001).

Professor, Department of Biology. (Rutgers University, NJ, from 2010).

Founding Director of the Center for Computational and Integrative Biology (Rutgers University, NJ, 2010),

 

Won four gold medals for programming logical games at the Computer Olympiads (London and Maastricht, 1989-91).

Published ten books on C programming (Dialog Publishers, 1988-91, in Russian).

Publications in Nature Genetics, Cell, Science, Genome Research, Nucleic Acids Research, Trends and other journals.