Professor of Bioengineering and an adjunct professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
The Principal Investigator of the Systems Biology Research Group in the Department of Bioengineering

Affiliations:
1984-1995: Chemical Engineering University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI
1995- : Bioengineering University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1984: received Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin
1989: held a faculty position at the University of Michigan for 11 years and was named the G.G. Brown Associate Professor at Michigan
1995: a Fulbright fellow,
1996: an Ib Henriksen Fellow

Professor of Pediatrics, and the Principal Investigator of the Systems Biology Research Group in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego
co-authored more than 600 peer-reviewed research articles and has authored four textbooks, with more in preparation.

Research:
the development of computational biology methods (flux-balance analysis, and modal analysis), genome-scale models (M models, ME models), data analytic methods (iModulons, pangenomics, alleleome, structural proteomics) and the formulation of specific sysbio models of the red blood cell, E. coli, CHO cells, and many human pathogens.
He is inventor on over 40 U.S. patents, the co-founder of several biotechnology companies, and holds several major biotechnology awards. Dr. Palsson is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the AIChE, AIMBE, AAAS, and the AAM. Dr. Palsson has been a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher since 2014.