Edward "Ed" H. Egelman (born 1952) is a Harrison Distinguished Chair of biochemistry and molecular genetics at the University of Virginia.
He studied political science at Brandeis University for two years, before dropping out to join an anti-Vietnam War student activism group.
[2] He then began a PhD in experimental physics at Harvard University, but dropped out and moved to France to begin culinary school.
He was a member of the faculty there until he moved to the University of Virginia in 1999 as a professor of biochemistry and molecular genetics.
[2] They have two children, Serge Egelman, Research Director of the Usable Security & Privacy Group at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI), and faculty member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley; and Liana Schwaitzberg, a fine arts appraiser and investment adviser, and an art collection management specialist.