Prof Eran Segal

Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel working on the microbiome, nutrition and genetics, and their effect on health and disease.

A professor at the Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS), heading a lab with a multi-disciplinary team of computational biologists and experimental scientists in the area of computational and systems biology. His group has extensive experience in machine learning, computational biology, and analysis of heterogeneous high-throughput genomic data.

He was elected as an EMBO member and as a member of the young Israeli academy of science. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Segal developed models for analyzing the dynamics of the pandemic and served as an advisor to the government of Israel.

Segal was awarded a B.Sc. in Computer Science summa cum laude from Tel-Aviv University, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Genetics, from Stanford University. Before joining the Weizmann Institute, Segal held an independent research position at Rockefeller University, New York.

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