Tommy Kaplan

Tommy Kaplan is a Professor at the Centre of Epigenetics, Queen Mary University of London, having recently moved to London from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof.Kaplan completed his PhD at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, under the supervision of Prof.Friedman. Together they were the first to map histone modifications in a eukaryotic genome. Upon graduation in 2008, Prof.Kaplan recieved the GE & Science prize for Young Life Scientists, and an EMBO long-term fellowship. From 2008-12, Prof.Kaplan was a post-doctoral fellow in UC Berkeley where he developed computational models for understanding transcription binding from enhancer sequences and studied Zelda, a factor stemming most promoters and activer enhancers in early drosophila development. In 2012, Prof.Kaplan returned to Israel, forming his own big-data computational biology research group at the Hebrew University. In 2025, Prof.Kaplan took up a Professorship at Queen Mary, with his group focusing on DNA methylation across the human body, in health and disease.