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Biophysics

MIT Biophysics Faculty

Biology

Tania A. Baker
Iain Cheeseman
Catherine L. Drennan
Amy E. Keating
Jonathan Alan King
Michael T. Laub
Gene-Wei Li

Pulin Li
Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Adam Martin
Hidde Ploegh
Robert T. Sauer
Thomas U. Schwartz
JoAnne Stubbe
Michael B. Yaffe

Biological Engineering

Eric Alm
Mark Bathe
Paul Blainey
Ed Boyden
Arup K. Chakraborty
Jim Collins
Linda Griffith
Alan J. Grodzinsky
Anders Sejr Hansen
Darrell Irvine
Alan P. Jasanoff
Roger D. Kamm
Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Scott R. Manalis
Katharina Ribbeck
Peter T. So
Bruce Tidor
Krystyn J. van Vliet
Christopher Voigt
Ron Weiss

Brain & Cognitive Science

Mark Thomas Harnett
Feng Zhang

Chemical Engineering

Kwanghun Chung
Patrick S. Doyle
Michael Strano

Chemistry

Moungi G. Bawendi
Jianshu Cao
Robert G. Griffin
Mei Hong
Laura Kiessling
Ronald T. Raines
Gabriela Schlau-Cohen
Alex K. Shalek
Bin Zhang
Sam Peng

Civil & Environmental Engineering

Lydia Bourouiba
Markus J. Buehler
Tal Cohen
Tami Lieberman
Otto Cordero

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Timothy Lu
Rahul Sarpeshkar
Collin M. Stultz

Health Sciences & Technology

George B. Benedek
Tami Lieberman
Leonid A. Mirny

Materials Science & Engineering

Alfredo Alexander-Katz

Math

Jörn Dunkel

Mechanical Engineering

Ashwin Gopinath

Ming Guo
Peter T. So

Nuclear Engineering

Alan P. Jasanoff

Physics

George B. Benedek
Julien Tailleur 
Jeff Gore
Nikta Fakhri
Mehran Kardar
Leonid A. Mirny
Max Erik Tegmark

Biophysics Seminars

Upcoming In-Person Seminars : 

** All seminars are to be held in the Duboc Room (4-331) and will begin at 10:45am, unless otherwise noted ** 

September 10, 2025

– Tatiana Mishania, UCSD

        * hosted by Seychelle Vos

September 24, 2025

– Suri Vaikuntanathan, University of Chicago

        * hosted by Julien Tailleur

October 1, 2025

– Buddhapriya Chakrabarti, Kansas State University

        * hosted by Mehran Kardar

October 15, 2025

– Nigel Goldenfeld, UCSD

        * hosted by Arup Chakraborty

October 22, 2025

– Herbert Levine, Northeastern University

        * hosted by Arup Chakraborty

November 5, 2025

– Matthieu Wyart, John Hopkins University

        * hosted by Mehran Kardar

November 19, 2025

– Mustafa Aydogan, Columbia University

        * hosted by Gene-Wei Li

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December 3, 2025

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– Grant Rotskoff, Stanford University

        * hosted by Julien Tailleur

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December 10, 2025

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– Etienne Fodor, Luxembourg University

        * hosted by Julien Tailleur

+ Indicates a Special Biophysics Seminar, in addition to the Biweekly Seminar Series 

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