DBIO encourages fellowship nominations of diverse candidates with outstanding contributions to the biological physics community through any of the following: research, service, outreach, pedagogy, or mentoring.
DBIO Deadline for APS Fellowship Nomination: June 3, 2024
The APS Fellow Archive is an historic record of every APS Fellow, from 1921 to the present. The details contained in the archive are intended to document an individual's institutional affiliation at the time of their election to Fellowship, and is not updated to reflect current information.
2024 APS Fellows Nominated by DBIO
Nancy R. Forde
Simon Fraser University
For contributions to the understanding of collagen mechanics and the assembly, development, and characterization of synthetic molecular motors; advances in biophysical instrumentation; and scientific leadership in the biophysics community.
Kinneret Keren
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
For pioneering biophysical studies of mechanobiology, leading to new insights in our understanding of cell motility and morphogenesis and revealing the crucial roles of mechanical forces, membrane tension, and dynamics of actomyosin cytoskeleton in cellular movement.
Rohit V. Pappu
Washington University in St. Louis
For innovative and fundamental studies that reveal processes governing intrinsically-disordered proteins and phase transitioning behaviors using polymer physics approaches and molecular simulations.
Michael G. Poirier
Ohio State University
For significant contributions to the biophysical understanding of nucleosome and chromatin dynamics, including how these dynamics are controlled by epigenetic factors to regulate genome accessibility.
Benjamin Schuler
University of Zurich
For pioneering the development of single-molecule methods that, combined with concepts from polymer physics, have transformed our understanding of biological polymers, especially unfolded and disordered proteins.
Pascal Silberzan
Institut Curie
For profound and innovative work relevant to the physics of life, including generalized hydrodynamics, broken symmetries, and statistical physics discovered through microfluidics, nanotechnology, and tissue biology.