Abraham B Korol

Abraham Bentsionovich Korol (; born October 18, 1946) is a professor at the Institute of Evolution at the University of Haifa. He is an Israeli geneticist and evolutionary biologist known for his work on the evolution of sex and recombination, genome mapping, and the genetics of complex traits.

Korol was born in Bendery, Moldavia (now Moldova), then part of the Soviet Union, and immigrated to Israel in 1991. He established the Laboratory of Population Genetics and Computational Biology at the University of Haifa and served as the director of the Institute of Evolution from 2008 to 2013.

Korol has held numerous scholarly positions, including membership in the Human Genome Organization and the European Society of Evolutionary Biology. He has contributed significantly to the fields of evolutionary genetics and genomics. Provided by Wikipedia