Biophysics Graduate Program Faculty

The following faculty are members of the Biophysics Graduate Program.

  • Professor of Physics

    Research
    Biophysics

    Department
    Physics

    Scholar | Website

    austin@princeton.edu

    609-258-4353

    122 Jadwin Hall

  • Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology, Chair of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Biochemistry, Computation & Modeling, Genetics, Microbiology & Virology, Structural Biology

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar | Website

    bbassler@princeton.edu

    609-258-2857

    329 Lewis Thomas Lab

  • Associate Professor of Neuroscience

    Research
    Systems and Circuits

    Department
    Princeton Neuroscience Institute

    Scholar | Website

    berry@princeton.edu

    609-258-1268

    A54 PNI

  • John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Research
    Theoretical Biophysics; Neurobiology

    Department
    Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Scholar | Website

    wbialek@princeton.edu

    609-258-5929

    237 Carl Icahn Laboratory

  • Associate Professor

    Research
    Bioengineering, Transport Phenomena, and Materials Synthesis, Processing, Structure and Properties

    Department
    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    cbrangwy@princeton.edu

    609-258-4528

    301 Hoyt Laboratory

  • Wilbur H. Gantz III '59 Professor of Neuroscience

    Research
    Computational Biology, Neuroscience

    Department
    Princeton Neuroscience Institute

    Scholar | Website

    brody@princeton.edu

    609-258-7645

    155 Neuroscience

  • James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Physics

    Research
    Biophysics

    Department
    Physics

    Scholar | Website

    ccallan@Princeton.EDU

    609-258-4321

    334 Jadwin Hall

  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research
    Controlling and understanding collective cell behaviors; bioelectric control of cellular function; cell-mimetic biomaterials; tissue biophysics; waterbear mechanics

    Department
    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    danielcohen@princeton.edu

    Hoyt 113

  • Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Research
    Cellular and Tissue Engineering, Complex Materials and Processing, Energy and Environment

    Department
    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    ssdatta@princeton.edu

    609-258-4586

    A321 Engineering Quad

  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Biochemistry, Biomolecular Engineering, Chemical Biology, Cellular and Tissue Engineering, Computation and Modeling, Genomics, Genetics, Microbiology, Virology

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar | Website

    donia@princeton.edu

    609-258-5870

    A5 Guyot Hall

  • Edwin Grant Conklin Professor of Biology, Professor of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Development, Genetics, Microbiology & Virology

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar | Website

    zgitai@princeton.edu

    609-258-9420

    355 Lewis Thomas Lab

  • Professor of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Research
    Biophysics, Quantitative approaches to systems and developmental biology.

    Department
    Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Scholar | Website

    tg2@princeton.edu

    609-258-4335

    122 Jadwin Hall

  • Kathryn Briger and Sarah Fenton Professor of EEB & Public Affairs, SPIA

    Research
    Disease modeling and ecology

    Department
    Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

    Scholar | Website

    grenfell@princeton.edu

    609-258-0308

    211 Eno Hall

  • Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research
    Biomechanics and biomaterials, materials science

    Department
    Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    mhaataja@Princeton.EDU

    609-258-9126

    D404C Engineering Quadrangle

  • Professor of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Microbiology & Virology, Structural Biology

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar | Website

    hughson@princeton.edu

    609-258-4982

    215 Schultz Laboratory

  • Assistant Professor of Chemistry

    Research
    Biomolecular Engineering, Complex Materials and Processing, Theory and Computation

    Department
    Chemistry

    Scholar | Website

    wjacobs@princeton.edu

    609-258-6513

    385 Frick Chemistry Laboratory

  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Biochemistry, Biophysics & Structural Biology

    Department
    Molecular Biology

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    jimah@princeton.edu

    609-258-8757

    M160 Guyot Hall

  • Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research
    Biophysics, Modeling and Computation, Cell and Developmental Biology, Computational Biology

    Department
    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    andrej@princeton.edu

    609-258-8613

    D404D Engineering Quadrangle

  • Assistant Professor

    Research
    How patterns of neural activity generate behavior in a simple animal. Using techniques and approaches from physics, engineering, genetics and computer science.

    Department
    Physics and the Princeton Neuroscience Institute

    Scholar | Website

    leifer@princeton.edu

    609-258-2973

    PNI 250

  • Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research
    Biomechanics and Biomaterials, Control, Robotics and Dynamical Systems

    Department
    Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    naomi@princeton.edu

    609-258-5129

    D234 Engineering Quadrangle

  • James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    Research
    Evolution, Cooperation, Theoretical and applied ecology, Infectious diseases, Ecological economics

    Department
    Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    Scholar | Website

    slevin@princeton.edu

    609.258.6880

    102 Guyot Hall

  • Professor of Neuroscience

    Research
    Neuroscience, Biophysics, Computational-Biology

    Department
    Princeton Neuroscience Institute

    Scholar | Website

    mmurthy@princeton.edu

    609-258-9820

    252 Neuroscience

  • Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering

    Research
    Cell-and-Developmental-Biology, Bioengineering, Cancer

    Department
    Chemical and Biological Engineering

    Scholar | Website

    celesten@princeton.edu

    609-258-8851

    303 Hoyt Laboratory

  • Associate Professor of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Biochemistry, Biophysics, Cell-and-Developmental-Biology, Modeling-and-Computation

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar | Website

    spetry@princeton.edu

    609-258-1553

    415 Schultz Laboratory

  • William S. Tod Professor of Chemistry

    Research
    Spectroscopy, Physical Chemistry, Natural and Engineered Materials for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability, Optical Materials and Light Matter Interactions, Quantum Materials Science

    Department
    Chemistry

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    gscholes@princeton.edu

    609-258-0729

    Frick Laboratory, 125

  • Professor of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Research
    Experimental biophysics; cell shape and collective motility; animal behavior and neuroscience; musical instrument design

    Department
    Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Scholar | Website

    shaevitz@princeton.edu

    609-258-8177

    244 Carl Icahn Laboratory

  • Professor, Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Research
    Experimental, theoretical, and computational studies of developmental systems. Imaging, modeling, and manipulation of dynamics in cells, tissues, and embryos

    Department
    Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    | Website

    stas@princeton.edu

    609-258-7071

    248 Carl Icahn Laboratory

  • Donald R. Dixon '69 and Elizabeth W. Dixon Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Research
    Fluid Mechanics

    Department
    Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    | Website

    hastone@princeton.edu

    609-258-9493

    D326 Engineering Quad D-Wing

  • Henry L. Hillman Professor of Neuroscience

    Research
    Measurement and analysis of neural circuit dynamics

    Department
    Princeton Neuroscience Institute

    Scholar |

    dwtank@princeton.edu

    609-258-7371

    156 PNI

  • Assistant Professor

    Research
    Evolution, Genetics-and-Genomics, Modeling-and-Computation

    Department
    Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

    Scholar | Website

    ctarnita@princeton.edu

    609-258-3896

    207 Eno Hall

  • Assistant Professor

    Research
    Cell Biology, Systems Biology, Bioengineering, Cancer, Development

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar | Website

    toettcher@princeton.edu

    609-258-8466

    140 Lewis Thomas Laboratory

  • Lewis Bernard Professor of Natural Sciences

    Research
    Statistical Mechanics, Soft Condensed Matter Theory

    Department
    Chemistry

    Scholar | Website

    torquato@princeton.edu

    609-258-3341

    Frick Laboratory, 160

  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology

    Research
    Microbiology, Virology

    Department
    Molecular Biology

    Scholar |

    aj.te.velthuis@princeton.edu

    609-258-2053

    Thomas Laboratory, 103

  • Professor of Neuroscience

    Research
    Biochemistry, Bioinformatics-and-Statistics, Cell-and-Developmental-Biology, Computational-Biology, Genetics-and-Genomics, Modeling-and-Computation

    Department
    Princeton Neuroscience Institute

    Scholar | Website

    sswang@princeton.edu

    609-258-0388

    A55 Neuroscience

  • Howard A. Prior Professor in the Life Sciences. Professor of Molecular Biology and Lewis-Sigler Institute. Associate Director, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. Director, Graduate Program in Quantitative and Computational Biology

    Research
    Biological modeling; intracellular networks; molecular biophysics

    Department
    Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Scholar | Website

    wingreen@princeton.edu

    609-258-8476

    243 Carl Icahn Laboratory

  • Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Research
    Develop and employ quantitative proteomics methods to obtain a systems level understanding of cellular organization

    Department
    Molecular Biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

    Scholar | Website

    wuhr@princeton.edu

    609-258-7653

    246 Carl Icahn Laboratory

  • Professor of Chemistry

    Research
    Experimental biophysics, single-molecule protein dynamics, nano-optics, control of artificial swimmers

    Department
    Chemistry

    | Website

    hawyang@Princeton.edu

    609-258-3578

    225 Frick Laboratory