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Joshua Shaevitz is a professor of physics and biophysics in the Department of Physics and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. He completed his undergraduate work at Columbia University in New York and earned a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University in 2004. Before joining Princeton, he was a Miller Research Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Shaevitz's research focuses on precision measurements of a variety of biological systems, particularly topics related to cell shape, bacteria, active matter, and pattern formation of moving cell groups, as well as the quantification of animal behavior. He has received several awards and honors, including the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, APS Fellowship, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Additionally, he serves as co-Director of the Center for Physics of Biological Function and the Director of Graduate Studies for the Graduate Program in Biophysics at Princeton University. In 2019, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
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