08/2007 - Present |
Assistant Professor of Physics, UC San Diego
Senior Scientist, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics |
| 2003 - 2007 |
Postdoctoral fellow, National Institutes of Health |
| 2001 - 2003 |
Postdoctoral fellow, Tel Aviv University |
2001 |
Ph.D. Physics and Mathematics, Specialty: Theoretical Physics,
B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics & Engineering, Kharkov, Ukraine |
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Honors and Awards |
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| 2009 |
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation |
| 2009 |
Hellman Faculty Fellow |
2003 |
NIH postdoctoral fellowship, National Institutes of Health |
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Recent Talks |
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| 2009 |
Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Arizona State Univ., Dept. of Physics, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Berlin Univ. of Technology, Germany, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, "Computational Biology of the Cell - The Next Decade" symposium, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Univ. of California Berkeley, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
"Optimization at a small scale" workshop, Univ. of California San Diego, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Telluride Science Research Center, "Single molecule dynamics" workshop, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Univ. of California San Diego, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Invited speaker |
| 2009 |
Aspen Center for Physics, "Single Molecule Biophysics" conference, speaker |
| 2008 |
Univ. of Texas in Austin, Dept. of Physics, Invited speaker |
| 2008 |
Gordon Research Conference "Single Molecule Approach to Biology", New Hampshire, Speaker |
| 2008 |
California State Univ. San Marcos, Keynote speaker for the semester |
| 2008 |
Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Annual Meeting, Invited speaker |
| 2007 |
Univ. of California San Diego, Dept. of Mathematics, Invited speaker |
| 2007 |
Univ. of California Los Angeles, Dept. of Biomathematics, Invited speaker |
| 2007 |
Aspen Center for Physics, "Single Molecule Biophysics" conference, Speaker |
| 2006 |
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, Univ. of Maryland, Invited speaker |
| 2006 |
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Maryland, Invited speaker |
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Professional Service |
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| 2009 |
Panelist, National Science Foundation, Review panel "Advancing Theory in Biology" |
| 2009 |
Panelist, National Science Foundation, Review panel "Physics of Living Systems" |
| 2009 |
UCSD Physics Graduate Admission Committee |
| 2009 |
Physics Department Exam Committee |
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Grant proposal reviewer for the National Science Foundation |
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Referee for Scientific Journals:
Science, PNAS, Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and E, Journ. of Physical Chemistry, Biophysical Journ., Journ. of Chemical Physics, PLoS Computational Biology, Journ. of Physics: Condensed Matter, Langmuir, Europhysics Letters, Curr. Pharmaceut. Biotech. |
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