Herbert Levine
Rice University |
Herbert Levine is a Professor in the Bioengineering, Physics and Biosciences departments at Rice University. He co-directs an NSF Frontier Center on the application of theoretical physics to biological systems. He is editor-in-chief of Physical Biology, is a divisional associate editor of Physical Review Letters and serves on the editorial board of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences..
Dr. Levine holds a Bachelor of Science degree from MIT (1976) and a PhD from Princeton University (1979), both in Physics. He spent twenty-five years on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego before joining Rice in 2012. Dr. Levine’s research has focused on a number of biological systems, including chemical gradient sensing by Dictyostelium amoeba, self-organization of bacterial colonies under stress, and most recently the cell biophysics underlying cancer progression to metastasis. His main interest is in how living systems have evolved to make use of dynamical mechanisms in the physical world to accomplish needed functional tasks and how disease arises when those evolved mechanisms fail. He has published over 250 papers on these and other topics in non-equilibrium physics. Dr. Levine is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a past chairman of the Biological Physics division of the American Physical Society. He also is the coordinator of a program which funds an international network of graduate students being trained at the interface of physics and the life sciences |