Scholarship and Biography

I am a theoretical physicist working on problems in biology. The goal of my research is to uncover general, mathematical laws that govern all living systems.

Link

Honors

Simons Investigator in Physics
Simons Foundation (United States, New York), 2020
HHMI Professor
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States, Chevy Chase) - HHMI, 2014
Book Award Winner: Undergraduate textbook, Physical Biology of the Cell
Royal Society of Biology, 2013
Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard University (United States, Cambridge), 2007-2008
HHMI-NIBIB Interfaces Award: Quantitative biology: a new curriculum to link the physical and biomedical sciences
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (United States, Chevy Chase) - HHMI, 2006-2008
Cottrell Scholar
Research Corporation for Science Advancement (United States, Tucson) - RCSA, 2002
CAREER Award
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2000-2004
Excellence in Teaching Award
Princeton University (United States, Princeton), 1998-1999
Third prize, XVI International Physics Olympiad
International Physics Olympiad, 1985

Organizational Affiliations

William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Physics, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics, Brandeis University

Co-Director, Quantitative Biology Graduate Program, Brandeis University

Education

Cornell University
Ph.D.