Ben Machta, assistant professor of physics, has won the Early Career Award for Biological Physics Research from the American Physical Society, Division of Biological Physics. This award recognizes outstanding and sustained contributions by an early-career researcher to biological physics. The APS Division of Biological Physics presents the award annually. He will receive the award and give an invited talk at the APS March Meeting in Anaheim, CA.
Machta’s citation reads, “For creative theoretical work elucidating how physics can both constrain and enable a wide range of biological functions, including intracellular signaling, bacterial chemotaxis, protein condensation on membranes, and thermal sensing in the snake pit organ.”
Of the award, Machta commented, “I am very excited to receive this year’s early career award. It’s a wonderful honor for me and my group, and I’m very thankful both to my collaborators and to the APS DBIO committee that chose to highlight our work.”