Jeff Gerold

Jeff Gerold was born in Hoffman Estates, Illinois. In May 2013 he graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, with additional majors in Physics and Mathematics. Despite the heavy course load required for his triple major, Jeff was an active participant in campus life – he rowed crew (and was a Crew Academic All-American), tutored at a local charter school, and served as president of Wash U’s biomedical engineering honors society. His academic rigorous preparation has served him well at Harvard, where he works in Professor Martin Nowak’s lab. Jeff’s dissertation will focus on integrating cancer genomics and evolutionary modeling. Professor Nowak believes that Jeff’s work addresses a critical gap in the field: understanding evolutionary signatures hidden in large cancer datasets.