Summary
Attila Csordas is a founder and math-oriented longevity biologist with 12 years of interdisciplinary experience at the intersection of bioinformatics, translational geroscience, and entrepreneurial science. He leads AGECURVE and CriticalZero, developing individual aging diagnostics and therapeutics and co-inventing "Cell Tree Rings," a method that uses somatic mutation-derived cell lineage barcodes as a human aging timer. Trained as an MD with a philosophy background and a PhD in translational geroscience, he combines rigorous quantitative thinking with conceptual clarity to tackle fundamental questions about aging. His decade at EMBL-EBI as a bioinformatician and submission coordinator for PRIDE grounded him in proteomics data standards and large-scale biological data workflows. He has practical lab and applied science experience from academic and startup roles in mitochondrial biology, nanotech, and teaching at Singularity University, giving him rare fluency across wet lab, computational, and educational domains. Based in Cambridge, he frames his work around a philosophical view that the meaning of life is life, driving curiosity-led innovation in aging measurement and intervention.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, molecular biology and biotechnology, MSc, molecular biology and biotechnology at Szegedi Tudományegyetem
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, translational geroscience, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, translational geroscience at University of Szeged
MD, philosophy, MD, philosophy at Eötvös Loránd University