Terry Hwa
University of California San Diego, USA
Terry Hwa is the Presidential Chair Professor of Physics with joint appointment in the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. He received his B.S. in physics, biology and electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1986 and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1990. He pursued postdoctoral research in statistical physics at Harvard University from 1990 to 1993 and was a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1993 to 1994. He joined the physics faculty at UC San Diego in 1995 where he has been ever since. Hwa is an active proponent of interdisciplinary research and the inaugural co-director of the graduate program in quantitative biology at UC San Diego. He is a recipient of numerous awards including the Sloan and Guggenheim fellowships, and he is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Microbiology.
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