William Bialek, Ph.D.

Photo of Simons Society of Fellows Senior Fellow Bill Bialek.

William Bialek serves as the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University, where he joined the faculty in 2001. His connection to the CUNY Graduate Center began as Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics in 2009 and continues as a Visiting Research Scholar. His work centers on discovering if there are theoretical principles that have the power and generality that we expect in physics, yet encompass the complexity and diversity of life’s most beautiful phenomena.

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Paul Chaikin, Ph.D.

Portrait photo of Paul Chalkin

Paul Chaikin is a Silver Professor of Physics at NYU, where he helped found the Center for Soft Matter Research. His more recent research centers on photonic non-crystals, artificial active matter, colloids, self-assembly, self-replication, DNA nanotechnology, topological defects on curved surfaces and quantifying order in nonequilibrium phenomena. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and a Fellow of the AAA&S, the APS and the Institute of Physics (London).

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