William Bialek
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Bialek received his AB (1979) and PhD (1983) degrees in Biophysics from the University of California, Berkeley. After postdoctoral appointments at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen in the Netherlands and at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics in Santa Barbara, he returned to Berkeley to join the faculty in 1986. In late 1990 he moved to the newly formed NEC Research Institute (now the NEC Laboratories) in Princeton. He is currently the John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics at Princeton University, and a member of the multidisciplinary [http://www.genomics.princeton.edu/ Lewis–Sigler Institute]. In addition, he serves as Visiting Presidential Professor of Physics at CUNY Graduate Center.
Bialek has made contributions to shaping the education of the next generation of scientists, such as organizing the Princeton Lectures on Biophysics, a series of workshops that provided many young physicists with an introduction to the challenges and opportunities at the interface with biology. The textbook he coauthored, ''Spikes: Exploring the neural code'' has also been similarly used by many young physics students as an introduction to neuroscience. He is currently involved in a major educational experiment at Princeton to create a truly integrated and mathematically sophisticated [https://www.princeton.edu/integratedscience/ introduction to the natural sciences] for first year college students. Most recently, he published ''Biophysics: Searching for Principles'', a textbook based on his course for PhD students. Provided by Wikipedia
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6by Gašper Tkačik, Olivier Marre, Dario Amodei, Elad Schneidman, William Bialek, Michael J BerryGet full text
Published 2014-01-01
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