Education
Alon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the and his Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Alon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the and his Doctor of Philosophy in Theoretical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in Escherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques. After having his interest in biology sparked, Alon headed for his postdoctoral work at Princeton University in experimental biology returning to the Weizmann Institute as a Professor. Alon features in several popular videos on YouTube such as Sunday at the Laboratory (with Michael Elowitz and How to Give a Good Talk.
As of 2011, he is the author of the most highly bookmarked scientific paper on CiteULike How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem and How to Build a Motivated Research Group.
In 2004 Alon was awarded the Overton Prize for "outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career" by the International Society for Computational Biology. Alon has also been awarded: Moore Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (2000) European Molecular Biology Organization Young Investigator Award (2001) International Business Machines Corporation Faculty Award (2003) Minerva Junior Research Group on Biological Computation (2003) Morris L. Levinson Award in Biology (2003) Teva Founders Prize (2005) European Molecular Biology Organization membership (2007), Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellow 2009 HFSP Nakasone Award (2014).
