Mihaela Zavolan studied medicine at the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timișoara, Romania. She then graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, United States of America.
Between 1993 and 2003 Mihaela Zavolan carried out research in the United States of America, at the Santa Fe Institute in Santa Fe, the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, as well as at the Rockefeller University in New New York In 2003, Mihaela Zavolan was appointed Professor of Computational and Systems Biology at the Biozentrum of the University of Basel. She is also a group leader of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
2012 European Research Council Starting Grant.
Academia Europaea]
2014 elected Member of the Academia Europaea.
