Vladimir Vacic

I was born and grew up in Belgrade, Serbia, where I graduated from the School of Mathematics (Matematicka Gimnazija) and studied architecture at the University of Belgrade.

In 1998 I moved to the United States to go to college, first to Bridgeport, Connecticut, then to Philadelphia, and finally to Riverside, California where I got my Ph.D. exactly 10 years and 1 day after I arrived to the US for the first time. I spent about half a year interning in Indianapolis and another half a year in Princeton. As it happened, I had my fair share of driving around. Right now I am a postdoc at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab, working on genomics of psychiatric disorders in the lab of Jonathan Sebat. If you want to learn more about what I do, you can read my Curriculum Vitae, or visit my (old) school home page.

I am interested in (among other things) music with emphasized rhythm and electronic music with no beats, reading, traveling, Buddhism, Aikido, 20th century architecture, contemporary visual and conceptual arts, theatre, minimalism, urbanism, cycling, philosophy, and Slavic and Tibetan mythologies.

I maintain yutechno.org, a web site dedicated to the early years of Serbian electronic music scene. OK, I occasionally maintain yutechno, but then again it's a low maintenance web site anyway.

Some of the writers I enjoy(ed), in almost alphabetical order: Douglass Adams, Isaac Asimov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Orson Scott Card, Lewis Carroll, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Aldous Huxley, Ephraim Kishon, Agota Kristoff, Milan Kundera, Ursula Le Guine, Gabriel Garcia Marques, Milorad Pavic, Terry Pratchett, Wilchelm Reich, Jose Saramago, Vladimir Sorokin, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Anton Wilson.

My semi-frequently-updated links page is not bad.