Abraham B. Korol ^People

He is a prominent Israeli geneticist and evolutionary biologist known for hiswork on the evolution of sex and recombination, genome mapping and thegenetics of complex traits. Korol was appointed in 1981 as a senior researcher and was awar-ded the degree of Doctor of Science by the Presidium of Academy of Science USSR in 1988, and became a full professor in 1991. After immigrating to Israel in 1991, Korol has established and headed the Laboratory of Population Genetics and ComputationalBiology in the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa. He became full pro- fessor there in 1996 and served as the director of the Institute ofEvolution between2008-2013. Since 1994, Korol has filled many scholarly positions including mem- ber of the steering committee of Israeli Gene Bank, member of the Human Genome Organization, member of the European Society of Evolutionary Biology, a member of the Coordinating Committee of the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, member of the Infrastructure Steering Committee of the Israeli Ministry ofScience, representative of Haifa University in the Kama program steering commit- tee (alefand bet), member ofthe Advisory Committee of Absorption in Science of theIsraeli Ministry of Absorption. Korol's research si focused on evolutionary genetics and genomics in several target species using both theoretical and experimental ap-proaches with emphasis on the mathematical aspect.