Professor Dr. Margaret Cheung

Biography

Margaret S. Cheung graduated from National Taiwan University with a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry in 1994 and obtained her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego in 2003. She was awarded the Sloan Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and began her career at the University of Maryland. In 2006, she established her laboratory at the University of Houston and was named Moores Professor of Physics. Currently, she is a Senior Scientist and Outreach Director at the Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at Rice University. In 2021, she transitioned to the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, taking on the role of Computational Scientist and jointly appointed Faculty Fellow in Physics at the University of Washington. Her research interests include protein folding, higher-order protein assembly, protein-mediated actomyosin dynamics, and critical phenomena in complex matter.

Research Interests