Physics of Living Systems

Physics of Living Systems (PoLS) research explores physical processes that living systems utilize to perform diverse functions in dynamic and diverse environments. It advances our understanding of the living world in a quantitative way, while also striving to provide insight from biological applications to expand the intellectual range of physics. PoLS research covers a broad spectrum of physics approaches in biology, ranging from the physical principles and mechanisms at the single-cell level such as molecular architecture and dynamics inside cells, energy metabolism, gene regulation, and intracellular and intercellular communication, to organismal biophysics, to collective behavior and evolution of complexity in life forms and living populations of organisms. Georgia Tech’s PoLS research has a special emphasis on interactions between living systems and their complex environments.

People of Physics of Living Systems

Leonid Bunimovich
Regents Professor
School of Mathematics
Jennifer Curtis
Professor
School of Physics
Aditi Das
Associate Professor
School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Flavio Fenton
Professor
School of Physics
Daniel Goldman
Professor
School of Physics
James Gumbart
Professor
School of Physics
David Hu
Professor
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
Lynn Kamerlin
Professor
School of Chemistry
Peter Kasson
Professor
School of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Harold Kim
Professor
School of Physics
Elisabetta Matsumoto
Associate Professor
School of Physics
William Ratcliff
Director, QBioS Graduate Program
School of Biological Sciences
Zeb Rocklin
Assistant Professor
School of Physics
Simon Sponberg
Dunn Family Associate Professor
School of Physics
Joshua Weitz
Professor (Affiliated)
School of Biological Sciences
Kurt Wiesenfeld
Professor
School of Physics
Peter Yunker
Associate Director, QBioS Graduate Program
School of Physics