Ludmil B. Alexandrov BSc, MPhil, PhD

Ludmil Alexandrov is an Oppenheimer Fellow in the Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Group and the Center for Nonlinear Studies at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Neumont University and received his Master’s of Philosophy in Computational Biology as well as his Ph.D. in Cancer Genetics from the University of Cambridge.

Ludmil’s research has been focused on understanding mutational processes in human cancer through the use of mutational signatures. In 2013, he developed the first comprehensive map of the signatures of the mutational processes that cause somatic mutations in human cancer.