Pavel A. Pevzner is the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science and Director of the National Institutes of Health Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry at University of California, San Diego.
Education
Pevzner received his Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics and Physics from the while working for Russian Institute for Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms (NII Genetika). In 1990, he joined Michael Waterman"s laboratory at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Southern California for two years as a postdoctoral research associate.
Career
Pevzner is interested in new approaches to teaching computational molecular biology at both undergraduate and graduate level, having written several books on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. In 1992, Pevzner took a position of an Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. In 1995, Pevzner moved back to the University of Southern California as a Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Molecular Biology.
Since 2000, he has been the Ronald R. Taylor Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, San Diego and he is the Director of the National Institutes of Health Center for Computational Mass Spectrometry.
Membership
He serves on the Editorial Board of PLoS Computational Biology and he is a member of the Genome Institute of Singapore scientific advisory board.