Research Areas:
Biophysics, Protein Dynamics

Prof. Robert Austin completed his PhD in Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champagne in 1975. He has been teaching at Princeton University since 1978 and is current Professor of Physics. His research interests are in experimental biological physics over a wide range of areas, including Fundamentals of Protein Dynamics: Energy Landscapes and Quantum Mechanics of Proteins, DNA Dynamics: sequence influences, Nanotechnology: DNA Dynamics, Nanotechnology: Micro/nanofluidics and recently Ecology and Evolution Dynamics. His research group is also in the process of developing novel techniques to quickly resolve DNA of different lengths and cells of different size in microchannels. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also awarded the Delbruck Prize for Biological Physics and the Lilienfeld Prize by the American Physical Society.