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Marcus Feldman, PhD, Member of the Board, Scientific Counsel: Life Sciences

 

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MARCUS WILLIAM FELDMAN, PhD

Feldman is co-director of Stanford’s Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics, and director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies and a member of Stanford Bio-X, the Stanford Cancer Institute, the Stanford Neurosciences Institute and the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. 

Professor of Biology, Stanford University

 

UPDATED on 11/9/2020

Personal

 

Born:                         November 14, 1942, Perth, Australia

Married:                    3 children

Citizenship:              U.S. (Naturalized, San Jose, CA, June 1994)

 

Education

 

1959:     Matriculation, University of Western Australia

1964:     B.Sc. (honors), University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Majors: Mathematics and Statistics
Degree completed 1963, awarded 1964.

1966:     M.Sc., Department of Mathematics, Monash University, Victoria,
Australia Degree completed 1965, awarded 1966.

1969:     Ph.D., Stanford University, Stanford, California
Graduate Division Special Program, Mathematical Biology
Committee: Professors S. Karlin, W. Bodmer, J. McGregor, D. Regnery.
Dissertation: Some Topics in Theoretical Population Genetics

 

Honors and Prizes

 

1. Government Exhibition (1959)
2. Commonwealth (of Australia) Scholarship (1959)
3. Colonial Sugar Refining Company Scholarship (1959)
4. Monash University Research Scholarship (1964)
5. Research Development Fund Grant, Stanford University (1973)
6. Mellon Junior Faculty Leave (1973-74)
7. J.S. Guggenheim Fellowship (1976-77)
8. Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1983-84
9. Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1986
10. Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987
11. Elected Fellow, California Academy of Sciences, 1996–
12. Jacob Marschak Lecturer, UCLA, November 1998, May 2002
13. China Population Study Award, 1998: Best paper previous four years
14. First Gifford Lecturer in Population Studies, Stanford 2000
15. Burrows Wellcome Lecturer, Princeton University, April 2002
16. Honorary Professor, Beijing Normal University, 2002–2007
17. “Paper of the Year 2002/2003,” The Lancet (bibliography number 294)
18. Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University Jerusalem, June 2005
19. Honorary Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2005–
20. S. Ulam Lecturer, Santa Fe, 2005
21. Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, May 2010
22. Dan David laureate, 2011
23. Elected member, American Philosophical Society, 2011
24. Elected member, National Academy of Sciences, 2013
25. Norman Giles Distinguished Lecturer, University of Georgia, 2015
26. Kimura Motoo Award in Human Evolution, 2016
27. Alumni lifetime achievement award, University of Western Australia, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, 2016
28. Allan V. Cox Medal for Fostering Undergraduate Research at Stanford, 2017
29. Honorary Doctor of Science, University of St. Andrews, 2020
30. Stanford Biosciences Excellence in Mentoring and Service Award, 2020

 

Positions Held

 

1960–1963      Assistant Chemical Analyst and Operations Researcher, Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Australia (vacation)

1963–1964      Programmer-Analyst, IBM Australia

1964–1965      Tutor in Mathematics and Statistics, Monash University, Australia

1965–1967      Teaching Assistant, courses in Mathematical Biology, Stanford University

1965–1969      Research Assistant for Professor S. Karlin, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University

Fall 1968         Visiting Research Assistant, Mathematics Research Center, U.S. Army, University of Wisconsin

1969–1970      Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University

1970–1971      Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia

1971                January, February. Visiting Research Scientist, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

1971–1974      Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

1973                April, May. Visiting Senior Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Chicago

1974–1977      Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

1976–1977      J.S. Guggenheim Fellow

1977–              Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

1978–1982      Associate Chairman, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University

1983                February-June. Visiting Professor of Statistics, Tel Aviv University

1983–1984      Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences

1986–1993      Clifford G. Morrison Professor in Population and Resource Studies, Stanford

1986–              Director, Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford

1993–              Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences

1997–2003      Co-director, Center for Computational Genetics and Biological Modeling, Stanford

1998–1999      Sackler Scholar, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel

1999–2000      Lady Davis Scholar, Hebrew University School of Agriculture, Rehovoth, Israel

2005–              Director, Center for Complexity Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

2013–              Co-director, Stanford Center for Computation, Evolutionary and Human Genomics

Other Professional Activities

 

1971–2012      Managing Editor, THEORETICAL POPULATION BIOLOGY (Academic Press)

1975–1985      Member NIH Genetics Study Section (ad hoc)

1984–1990      Editor, AMERICAN NATURALIST

1984–2006      Member, Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute

1985–1989      Member, Appointments and Promotions Committee, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University

1987–2010      Member, Science Board and Science Steering Committee, Santa Fe Institute

1988–1989      Member, External Review Committee for Biology Departments, University of Chicago

1989–1993      Member, Overseers’ Committee, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University

1989–2004      Member, Advisory Committee on Evolutionary Biology, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

1989–1993      Member, Executive Committee, Institute for International Studies, Stanford

1989–1995      Member, NSF Advisory Committees on Mathematical and Computational Biology

1990–1995      Committee on Mathematics in the Life Sciences (Amer. Math. Society)

1990–1997      Member, Editorial Board, Biomathematics Series (Springer-Verlag)

1992–              Member, International Executive Committee, Human Genome Diversity Project

1993–              Member, North American Committee, Human Genome Diversity Project

1993–2003      Member, Executive Committee, Board of Trustees, Santa Fe Institute

1994–1998      Member, Advisory Board, MIT Consortium on Global Environment and Sustainable Development

1995–1998      Elected Council Delegate, AAAS Section on Biological Sciences

1995–2003      Associate Editor, COMPLEXITY

1996–1998,     Co-Chair, Science Steering Committee, Santa Fe Institute

2010–2013

1996–2001      Member, Advisory Board, Mountain View Research Incorporated

1997–2005      Member, International Board, Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa, Israel

1998–2006      Associate Editor, Wiley Series in Mathematical and Computational Biology (John Wiley, Publisher)

1998–2008      Associate Editor, GENETICS

1998–2001      Section Editor, Genetics, Behavior and Society. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

1998–2001      Section Co-editor, Evolutionary Sciences. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

1998–2014      Member, Scientific Board, Institute for Medical Biomathematics, Israel

2000–2004      Member, National Research Council Committee: Frontiers at the Interface of Computing and Biology

2001–              Editorial Board, ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

2002–              Editorial Board, HUMAN GENOMICS

2003–2009      Editorial Board, ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS

2004–2009      Academic Director, Bridging the Rift Foundation (promoting and organizing scientific collaborations between Israelis and Jordanians).

2007–2017      Member, Scientific Advisory Board, 23andMe

2007–              Member, Selection Committee, Rothschild Foundation Isareli Postdoctoral Fellowships

2008–2009      Chair, Yeshaya Horowitz Foundation review committee, Israel

2009–2016      Member, Human Genetics Foundation advisory board, Italy

2010–2014      Co-Chair, Science Board, Santa Fe Institute

2010–2016      NAS Committee on Science, Technology and Law

2017–              Member, Scientific Advisory Board, Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University

 

BIO

MARCUS WILLIAM FELDMAN

Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University

327 W Campus Drive, Stanford, CA 94305-5020

mfeldman@stanford.edu. Tel.: 650-725-1867

 

1. Professional Preparation

University of Western Australia, Mathematics, B.Sc., 1964

Monash University, Australia, Mathematics, M.Sc., 1966

Stanford University, Mathematical Biology, Ph.D., 1969

 

2. Appointments

2013–              Co-director, Stanford Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics

2005–              Director, Center for Complexity Studies, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China

1993–              Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biology, Stanford

1986–              Director, Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford

1977–              Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford

1974–1977      Associate Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford

1971–1974      Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford

1970–1971      Lecturer, Department of Mathematics, La Trobe University, Australia

 

3. Honors

• Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1987
• “Paper of the Year”, The Lancet, 2003.
• Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Hebrew University Jerusalem, 2005
• Honorary Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 2005
• Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, Tel Aviv University, 2010
• Elected member, American Philosophical Society, 2011
• Dan David laureate, 2011
• Elected member, National Academy of Sciences, 2013
• Kimura Motoo Award in Human Evolution, 2016
• Alumni lifetime achievement award, University of Western Australia, Faculty of Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, 2016
• Allan V. Cox Medal for Fostering Undergraduate Research at Stanford, 2017

 

4. Biography

Marcus Feldman, Ph.D., is the Wohlford Professor of Biology at Stanford University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He directs the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies and is co-director of Stanford’s Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics. Feldman’s specific areas of research include the evolution of complex genetic systems that can undergo both natural selection and recombination, the evolution of modern humans using models for the dynamics of molecular polymorphisms, especially DNA variants, cultural evolution, and the evolution of learning as one interface between modern methods in artificial intelligence and models of biological processes, including communication. He is the author of more than 650 scientific papers and ten books on evolution, ecology, mathematical biology, and demography.

 

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