Robijn F. Bruinsma (born May 15, 1953,
Haarlem
Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...
, The Netherlands) is a theoretical
physicist and is Professor of Physics at the
University of California, Los Angeles and Chair of the Department of Theoretical Physics for the Life Sciences at
Leiden University
Leiden University (abbreviated as ''LEI''; nl, Universiteit Leiden) is a Public university, public research university in Leiden, Netherlands. The university was founded as a Protestant university in 1575 by William the Silent, William, Prince o ...
. He is a specialist in the theory of
condensed matter.
He has a
B.S. degree in Physics from the
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (1974), a
M.S. in Physics from
Utrecht University (1976), and a
Ph.D. degree in Physics (1976) from the
University of Southern California. His thesis advisor was
Kazumi Maki.
Career
His research specialties include the numerical simulation of active
proteins and of
gene transcription, the self-assembly of
viruses,
DNA, and
chromatin, the electrostatics of DNA and electrical transport along DNA, and adhesion of
vesicles and cells.
* Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1979-1980.
* Research Associate,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, 1980-1982.
* Visiting Scientist, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown, NY, 1982-1984.
* Assistant Professor of Physics, University of California, 1984-1988
* Associate Professor of Physics, University of California, 1988-1990
* Full Professor of Physics, University of California, 1990–present
* Chair, Theoretical Physics for the Life Sciences, Leiden University, 2001–present
Honors
* Pierre et Marie Curie Visiting Professorship (
ESPCI
ESPCI Paris (officially the École supérieure de physique et de chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris; ''The City of Paris Industrial Physics and Chemistry Higher Educational Institution'') is a prestigious grande école founded in 1882 by ...
) (1994)
* Rothschild Foundation Fellowship (1996)
* Fellow of the American Physical Society (1997)
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* Distinguished Lecturer, Collège de France (1999)
References
External links
Bruinsma's webpage at the UCLA Department of Physics and Astronomy*
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1953 births
Living people
20th-century Dutch physicists
Scientists from Haarlem
University of Southern California alumni
Harvard Fellows
Fellows of the American Physical Society
21st-century Dutch physicists