Massimo Vergassola, Ph.D.

Vergassola holds a joint position at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and CNRS in Paris. He was educated in Italy and France and was a postdoc at Princeton University. He held positions at the Pasteur Institute and the University of California, San Diego and has been a visiting scientist at Rockefeller University, the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Weizmann Institute of Science and the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques. Vergassola was chair of the biological physics division of the American Physical Society. His scientific interests broadly cover the physics of living systems, with particular interest paid to the physics of embryonic development and animal behavior.