Dominic Skinner, Ph.D.

Dominic Skinner is an associate research scientist in the Developmental Dynamics group at the Center for Computational Biology, joining in July 2024. His research applies mathematical and computational methods, including data-driven approaches, to understand biological questions. Prior to the Flatiron Institute, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Quantitative Biology at Northwestern University, where he used ideas from statistical physics to study the development of sea squirt embryos. Skinner received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he developed methods to quantify entropy production from experimental data and studied the topological packing statistics of cellular materials.