Theodore Alexandrov

Theodore Alexandrov received a PhD in mathematics in Russia in 2007, did his postdoc at the University of Bremen, Germany, where he became a group leader at the Center for Industrial Mathematics and the head of its MALDI Imaging Lab. Since 2010, he has been a visiting researcher at University of California San Diego. Alexandrov is also a co-founder and the scientific director of the company SCiLS. Since 2014, he has been a team leader at European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg with a research program on spatial metabolomics. The Alexandrov Team at EMBL develops novel tools of computational biology that reveal spatial organization of metabolic processes by exploiting high-throughput metabolic imaging and by translating the big data generated into biological knowledge.