Summer School on Mathematics in Biology in Medicine

September 20-24, 2004

Alan S Perelson

Biography

Alan S. Perelson received B.S. degrees in Life Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT in 1967, and a Ph.D. in Biophysics from UC Berkeley in 1972. He was Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Physics, Berkeley, in 1973 and a postdoctoral fellow in Chemical Engineering, Univ. Minnesota, in 1974. He has been a sta. member in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory from June 1974ÐMay 1991, was head of the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group from September 1995- through February 2001, and is currently a Laboratory Fellow, a position he has held since June 1991. He spent 1978 - 1979 at Brown Univ. as an Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences, was a visiting scientist at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford Univ. in 1986 and a visiting professor of Physics at Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris in 1990, and the University of Paris VII in 1992. From 1994-1997 he was on the Board of Governors for the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, Univ. Minnesota, He is an affiliate and a member of the executive committee for the Center for Nonlinear Studies at LANL, and is on the National Research CouncilÕs Board on Mathematical Sciences. He is also head of the Theoretical Immunology Program, and an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

AREAS OF TECHNICAL SPECIALIZATION. Mathematical and theoretical biology, with an emphasis on problems in immunology, virology, and cell and molecular biology.

HONORS AND AWARDS. N.I.H. Research Career Development Award, September 1979 to August 1984. President and Vice-President of the Society of Mathematical Biology, 1991- 1994, Stanislaw Ulam Memorial Lecturer, Santa Fe, 1995.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES. Associate Editor, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 1977- -present; Advisory Editor, J. Math Biol., 1977Ðpresent; Editorial Board, Lect. Notes Biomathematics, 1978Ðpresent; Editorial Board, Math. Biosci., 1981Ðpresent; Book Review Editor, Math Biosci., 1982Ð1988; Editorial Advisor, CRC Press, 1982Ð1992; Associate Editor, IMA J. Math. Appl. Med. Biol., 1983Ðpresent; Advisory Editor, J. Theoretical Biology, 1985Ðpresent; Editorial Board, Springer-Verlag, Textbooks in Biomathematics, 1986Ðpresent.