Education
Gavrilov has an Master of Science in chemistry (1976) and a Doctor of Philosophy in genetics (1980), both from Moscow State University.
chemist demographer geneticist
Gavrilov has an Master of Science in chemistry (1976) and a Doctor of Philosophy in genetics (1980), both from Moscow State University.
He is a research associate at the Center on Aging of the National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, in the United States. He specializes in the mathematical modeling of aging and mortality, biodemography and the genetics of aging and longevity. Gavrilov has written two books, several chapters and numerous scientific papers.
His book The Biology of Life Spanish: A Quantitative Approach was published in Russian in 1986 and in English translation in 1991.
He taught a course on "biodemography of human mortality and longevity" at the University of Chicago. He is a consultant for the National Research Council and the National Institute on Aging, and a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Gavrilov is an associate editor of Experimental Gerontology and Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling, and an editorial board member of Rejuvenation Research, Advanced Science Letters and The Scientific World Journal.