Pierre Zalloua

Pierre Zalloua is a population geneticist focusing primarily on East Mediterranean populations. He earned his PhD in genetics from the University of California at Davis. He completed a three-year post-doctoral fellowship in population genetics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health where he is currently an adjunct professor. Pierre has served as the principal investigator for National Geographic’s Genographic Project in the Middle East and North Africa and has authored and co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications in the field of genetics. Some of his work has been featured in The New York Times, National Geographic, and most major international media outlets. He is featured in a documentary film about his work produced by National Geographic entitled Quest for the Phoenicians.