Leonid Kruglyak is a scientist focusing on evolutionary genetics. He is the Chair of the Department of Human Genetics, a Distinguished Professor in the Departments of Human Genetics and Biological Chemistry and was appointed in 2020 The Diller-von Furstenberg Endowed Chair in Human Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. He received an NIH MERIT award in 2002. He was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2007. He received the Curt Stern Award in 2015 and the Edward Novitski Prize in 2016.