First name

Michael

Last name

Lynch

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2022

Bio image

Michael Lynch

Bio summary

Lynch is the director of the Biodesign Center for Mechanisms of Evolution. He has been hailed as the world's leading quantitative geneticist with research that focuses on uncovering the mechanisms driving evolution at the genomic, cellular and organismic levels. His impactful work in the field of evolutionary biology has been funded from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of the Army.