Ludmil Alexandrov

Ludmil B. Alexandrov is a Bulgarian-American scientist and an associate professor at the University of California, San Diego.

[3][4][5][1][6] Alexandrov received his PhD from University of Cambridge in 2014.

[2] Alexandrov is known for developing the concept of mutational signatures together with Michael Stratton and colleagues at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

[7] Alexandrov's research interests are in computational biology, cancer genomics, mutagenesis, ageing and bioinformatics.

[1] Alexandrov is one of the co-leaders of the Mutographs of Cancer project, a £20 million Grand Challenge Project funded by Cancer Research UK "to fill in the missing gaps to identify the unknown cancer-causing factors and reveal how they lead to cancer.