Kenneth Henry Wolfe FRS MRIA[11][12] is an Irish geneticist and professor of genomic evolution at University College Dublin (UCD), Ireland.

[13][11][14] Wolfe was educated at Trinity College Dublin, where he was awarded Bachelor of Arts degree in genetics in 1986[3] followed by a PhD in 1990[6] for research investigating synonymous substitution in vascular plants and mammals supervised by Paul M.

[12] His group also studies the origin and evolution of mating systems in yeasts, and the process of mating-type switching in which one cell type can change into another by moving or replacing a section of chromosome.

In 2013, he moved to University College Dublin's UCD School of Medicine and Conway Institute.

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