Marek Kimmel, Professor of Statistics and Bioengineering at Rice University (Houston, TX, USA), and Professor of Systems Biology at the Silesian University of Technology (Gliwice, Poland). PhD in Control Theory (Silesian Tech, 1980); Habilitation in applied mathematics (Jagiellonian, 1997), and Postdoc (1982-1986) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York, NY, USA).

My strictly professional interests center on the statistical and population genetics and genomics of human disease, systems biology (modeling signaling pathways, modeling the structure and function of biomolecules), and stochastic modeling of human diseases (including progression, detection and treatment), with applications mostly in cancer research. I have a long and documented record of collaboration with cell and molecular biologists, geneticists, epidemiologists and physicians on one side, and pure and applied mathematicians on the other, particularly in building and analyzing mathematical and computational models of cancer.

My other focus area is molecular evolution, including early life, the role of information and entropy in living systems, and connections with astrobiology and related topics.