Dr Ludmil B. Alexandrov

Ludmil Alexandrov is an Assistant Professor at University of California San Diego, where his research focuses on understanding mutational processes in human cancer and human ageing through the use of mutational signatures.

Ludmil was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, studied computer science at Neumont University, and completed his graduate work with Prof Sir Mike Stratton at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. During his PhD, Ludmil developed the first comprehensive map of the mutational signatures in human cancer. He also held a distinguished Oppenheimer Fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Ludmil’s role in the Grand Challenge will be the development of novel computational approaches for understanding and explaining cancer risk through mutational signatures.