Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference.

Between 1988 and 1989, Laan was studied as an exchange student at North Carolina State University.

Laan's Ph.D. thesis was supervised by Richard D. Gill with a dissertation titled "Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models".

Since 2016, Laan became the academic director of the Center of Targeted Learning in Precision Health at University of California, Berkeley.