Mikhail Gelfand is a Russian professor, Doctor of Biological Sciences (Molecular Biology), Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (Biophysics). Member of the Academia Europaea. Professor and Vice President for Biomedical Research at the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. Mikhail is a well-established bioinformatics specialist in the international scientific community. His research encompasses comparative genomics, systems biology, molecular evolution, transcriptomics, metagenomics. Currently, he is studying co-evolution of transcription factors and their recognition sites, microevolution of bacterial genomes on the strain level, the evolution of alternative splicing, a three-dimensional structure of chromatin, and epigenetics. Deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Troitsky Variant - Science". One of the founders of the Dissernet, a volunteer community network working to clean Russian science of plagiarism. Member of the Council of the Society of Scientists. He is a member of the board of the Evolution educational foundation. He was a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. Mikhail is the author of many scientific publications and articles. In 2007 Mikhail was awarded the A. A. Baev prize of the Russian Academy of Science.