Vladimir Vacić
Gde / where: San Francisco, California
Kontakt / contact: [my first name] @vacic.org
I was born and grew up in Belgrade, Serbia. I graduated from the School of Mathematics (Matematicka Gimnazija) and have spent one year at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade.
In 1998 I moved to the United States to go to college, first to Bridgeport, then to Philadelphia, and finally to Riverside, where I defended my Ph.D. exactly 10 years and a 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. Between moving for school and internships, I had my fair share of driving across the U.S..
In 2008 I moved to New York, first for a postdoc at the Cold Spring Harbor Lab (genetics of psychiatric disorders), and after that for a postdoc at Columbia (statistical genetics, neurodegeneration). Between 2012 and 2015 I worked at the New York Genome Center, where I was one of the founding scientists, saw the center grow from 20 to 160 people, and ended up managing a cancer genomics group.
In 2015 I switched coasts again and moved to San Francisco. I now work in 23andMe's Therapeutics division.
I love infographics and maps. Some of the stuff I made is here:
