Franziska Michor
Austrian biomathematician
Franziska Michor (born 1982) is an Austrian computational biologist. She is a professor in the department of data science at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute. She serves as Director of the Physical Sciences-Oncology Center and the Center for Cancer Evolution.
Education and early career
Michor was born in Vienna in 1982. Her father, Peter W. Michor, is a mathematician and a retired professor at the University of Vienna, and her mother was a nurse. As a child she became interested in mathematics, and was inspired to follow a scientific career that helped others. Michor was an undergraduate student in mathematics and molecular biology at the University of Vienna. She spent a year at the University of Trieste, where she studied medical biotechnology. She moved to the Institute for Advanced Study as a graduate student, where she worked in theoretical biology. Michor was a doctoral researcher in Harvard University, where she was based in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.
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