Rate My Professor Ivet Bahar

Ivet Bahar is a distinguished computational biologist in Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, serving as adjunct faculty in the Department of Computational and Systems Biology and holding the John K. Vries Chair since 2005. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Boğaziçi University in 1980, M.S. in Chemical Engineering from the same institution in 1983, and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Istanbul Technical University in 1986. Recruited to the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in March 2001, she founded the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, directing it from 2001 to 2004 while serving as Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry. In October 2004, she became Founding Chair of the Department of Computational Biology, which evolved into the Department of Computational and Systems Biology in 2009, a position she held until transitioning roles. Appointed Distinguished Professor of Computational and Systems Biology in 2013, she served until January 2023. Bahar co-founded the joint Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology with Carnegie Mellon University from 2005 to 2009, directed the NIGMS-funded MMBioS Multiscale Modeling and Biomolecular Simulation Biomedical Technology Research Center from 2012 to 2021, and was Associate Director of the University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute from 2010 to 2023.