Summary
Herbert Sauro is a professor of systems biology at the University of Washington with over a decade of experience studying how biological cells work, focusing on non-linear dynamics, control analysis, and software and standards development. He combines deep academic training—including postdoctoral work at Edinburgh and affiliation with Caltech—with a background that spans industry stints at the Financial Times, GE, and his own software company, bringing rare interdisciplinary perspective to computational biology. Known for building tools and standards that bridge theory and practice, he leads research that translates complex dynamical models into usable analysis frameworks. Based in Seattle, he pairs intellectual curiosity—evident in eclectic interests from carnivorous plants to geology—with a long-standing commitment to rigorous, reproducible computational science.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Fellow, Systems Biology, Postdoctoral Fellow, Systems Biology at Edinburgh
c, c#, python, object pascal, c++, matlab, latex, fortran, 68000 assembler, z80 machine code