Kirill Korolev

Kirill Korolev is an Associate Professor of Physics and Bioinformatics at Boston University. After receiving his PhD in theoretical physics from Harvard University in 2010, he spent three years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Pappalardo Postdoctoral Fellow.

Professor Korolev uses mathematical modeling, computation, and statistical analysis of data to understand evolution and population dynamics in a variety of practical contexts. His work focuses on questions in biology and physics related to population dynamics. One area of his research is ecology and evolution of interacting species ranging from a two-species population of cooperators and defectors to multi-species microbial communities comprising the human microbiome. He also works on evolutionary dynamics of cancer progression and adaptation in populations undergoing a geographic expansion. Other research interests include switching between alternative states of an ecosystem and fundamental questions in evolution like the role of horizontal gene transfer, epigenetics, and genetic architecture. This type of work often draws on the ideas and methods from statistical physics and stochastic processes, and involves both analytical and computational analysis.

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