Kirill Korolev

Kirill Korolev was selected as an Institute Junior Faculty Fellow in fall 2015. He is an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Graduate Program in Bioinformatics at BU, which he joined in 2013. 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. The main focus of his group is on the spatial organization of microbial colonies, evolution in cancer tumors, and invasions of exotic species or pests. He is also interested in sudden transitions in complex system such as an onset of dysbiosis in the gut microbiome. Overall, his work seeks simplicity in the complexity of dynamic and evolving collectives.