François Balloux

François Balloux is the director of the UCL Genetics Institute, and a professor of computational biology at University College London.

Early life and education Balloux earned a master's degree in 1996 and a doctorate in 2000 from the University of Lausanne. He then completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh. and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. He has also engaged in research on the emergence and spread of drug resistance in tuberculosis, and Gram-negative bacteria, and the distribution of zoonotic pathogens in vertebrates.

Balloux participated in curating a dataset of SARS-CoV-2 genetic samples early on in the pandemic.