Joshua William Shaevitz

150 Carl Icahn Laboratory
Lewis-Sigler Institute
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone: (609) 258-8177
E-mail: shaevitz at princeton.edu
URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~shaevitz/
LAB: http://genomics.princeton.edu/shaevitzlab

Bio

Joshua Shaevitz, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of Physics and Genomics at Princeton University. Before becoming a professor, he studied at Columbia, Stanford, and UC Berkeley where he was a Miller Research Fellow. He has published numerous scientific articles on biophysics in leading scientific journals and has received a number of awards for his research and teaching activities. He and his wife, a science writer, live in Princeton, New Jersey, with their two young children.

Education

• Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University, 2004
• M.S. in Physics, Stanford University, 2002
• B.A. in Physics, Columbia University, 1999

Research Interests

Biophysics; molecular and cellular force generation; cellular mechanics and shape formation; motility and molecular motors; structure and motions produced by the prokaryotic cytoskeleton; development of new microscopies to study biological organisms; laser tweezers; atomic force microscopy

Professional Experience

• Assistant Professor, 2007 - present
  Department of Physics and Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University
  
• Miller Research Fellow, 2004-2007
  Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California at Berkeley
  

Distinctions

• Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2009-2013
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2009-2014
• Human Frontier in Science Young Investigators Award, 2008-2011
• Sloan Research Fellowhip, 2008-2010
• Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, 2004-2007
• First International Nanoscale/Molecular Mechanics Conference Travel Grant, Maui HI, 2002
• Physics Department Alfred Moritz Michaelis Award, Columbia University, 1999
• I. I. Rabi Scholarship, Columbia University, 1995-1999

Teaching at Princeton

• PHY 412 Biological Physics, 2008, 2009
• CHM-COS-MOL-PHY 233-234 An Integrated, Quantitative Intro to the Natural Sciences, 2008, 2009

Societies and Professional Activities

• Member (current and past): Biophysical Society, American Society for Cell Biology, American Physical Society, Biomedical Engineering Society
• Reviewer for: Nature, Nature Methods, Physical Biology, Biophysical Journal, PNAS, Biophysical Chemistry, Laser and Photonics Reviews, Applied Optics, Optics Express, Structure, Israel Science Foundation, National Science Foundation