«I was first exposed to the idea of theoretical biology as an undergraduate and I actually hated it,» he says. (sciencenews.org)
I started noticing job advertisements in theoretical biology and wondering whether one of these could become a way for me to enter the world of biological research. (sciencemag.org)
He has a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, became professor of theoretical biology at the University of Oxford aged 32, then moved to Princeton University and later to Harvard. (newscientist.com)