Rob Phillips, Ph.D.

Phillips is the Fred and Nancy Morris Professor of Biophysics, Physics and Biology at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Phillips received his Ph.D. in condensed matter physics from Washington University in 1989. Before becoming a scientist, he spent seven years traveling, self-studying, and working as an electrician. His lab focuses on questions such as how genomes are regulated to give rise to cellular physiology and how the molecules of the cell come together to form organized structures.