Jacek Majewski, Professor of Human Genetics at McGill University, began his adventure in science as a wannabe physicist and, veering through a brief stint with electrical engineering, eventually found his way to biology. He received a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from Wesleyan University in Middletown CT, and followed his then fiancée to New York City for a post-doc in statistical genetics with Dr. Jurg Ott at the Rockefeller University. When genome sequencing happened, a background in quantitative sciences proved useful, resulting in his involvement in multiple genomics projects aimed at understanding basic biology, hereditary disease, and cancer. After many years of denial, he was recently forced to admit that epigenetics does indeed exist, which led to ongoing interest in functional epigenomics.
Website: https://majewskilab.github.io