Kenneth Dill has been a professor at U.C.S.F. since 1982. He is also a faculty biochemist for the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and an Adjunct Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Utah.

Dill is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Biophysical Society, the American Physical Society, and of the AAAS. He received his S.M. from MIT in Mechanical Engineering, and his Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, San Diego. He also completed a Chemistry post-doc at Stanford University.