Dexter Holland

Bryan Keith Holland (born December 29, 1965), best known by his stage name Dexter Holland is the singer, rhythm guitarist and primary songwriter for the California punk rock band The Offspring and molecular biology graduate student.
Education and scientific career
Holland attended Pacifica High School in Garden Grove, California, where he graduated as class valedictorian in 1984. During high school, Holland was the best student in mathematics in his year, and he found it "just as exciting as [he does] punk rock".
Holland then attended the University of Southern California, where he earned a B.S. in Biology and a M.S. in Molecular Biology and commenced a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology. After the success of The Offspring, he suspended his candidature to focus on music. Holland has said that, at 40 years of age, he would rather be a professor at a university than play music.
As of 2013, Holland is a doctoral student at the Laboratory...