2026 Recipient

Benjamin Good is an Assistant Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University. His research uses tools from statistical physics, population genetics, and genomics to understand the real-time evolution of microbial populations, with a particular focus on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of large microbial communities. Ben received his undergraduate degree in Physics and Mathematics from Swarthmore College, and completed his PhD in Physics at Harvard University in 2016. He was then a Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in the Physics and Bioengineering departments at UC Berkeley, before starting his faculty position at Stanford in 2019. Ben is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship, a Biohub - San Francisco Investigator Award, an NIH MIRA Award, and the Philippe Meyer Prize in Theoretical Physics.