Raghuveer Parthasarathy has been a Physics professor at the University of Oregon since 2006. His research interests involve biophysics, especially the structure and dynamics of the gut microbiome, which his group explores using new sorts of optical microscopy. His teaching interests mostly involve courses for non-science majors, including a “biophysics for non-scientists” class (The Physics of Life) and The Physics of Energy and the Environment.
He has written and illustrated a popular-science book on biophysics, So Simple a Beginning: How Four Physical Principles Shape Our Living World (2022). You can read more about it here. (Also Amazon and Princeton University Press.)
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Science (AAAS), the latter citation of which notes, “For fundamental insights into the physical basis for biological self-organization, and for effectively transmitting the principles of molecular, cellular and organismal biophysics to the general public.”
Parthasarathy’s “official” web page is: https://pages.uoregon.edu/raghu/
If you’re curious about what the blog’s name means, see this post; it’s a fun story.
Contact: raghu [a t] uoregon [dot] edu
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